First of all, I'm not a big fantasy genre fan, especially children's fantasy. My major dislike with these books is that all the adults in the books act like idiots and fools, so the children can be the hero. So Why did I even start reading the Harry Potter series:
I went into my favorite book store to buy a new release of one of my favorite authors. I couldn't believe the lines at the checkout stand. It turned out to be the day OOTP was released. Since I live 50 miles from the nearest book store, I decided to go ahead and stand in line. I had never seen anything like what I was seeing. The books were behind the counter and the customers had to have preorder slips before they could buy the book. The man who was about my age in front of me in line had 2 slips. He told me one was for him and one was for his wife because neither would agree to wait for the other to read the book first. I couldn't believe what I was just told. I told him I wasn't a big fantasy fan and I didn't think I would like the series. He saw the book I was buying and told me the series was as much mystery as it was fantasy. I decided the Harry Potter series was a must read, so I had him save my place in line and went and got the four volume set of books 1-4. After reading these I bought the second edition release of OOTP and read it. I found the twists used by J. K. Rowling (especially POA and GOF) very well prepared and agreed that she was writing mystery along with fanasty. Except for SS/PS the adults acted reasonable in the books. For this reason, I had after finishing my reading of books 1-5 immediately concluded that the true hidden plot of SS/PS was a trap set up by Dumbledore to capture Vapormort which trap was spoiled by the trio. This conclusion caused the entire plotline up to this point to be reasonable to me.
I then forgot about the series until early 2005. I thought it was about time for book 6 to be released so I got on the internet looking for the release date. I found one of the largest Harry Potter discussion forums and found out that my impression of SS/PS was non-existent on the forum, but it was the only explanation that caused the plot of book 1 to make sense to me. My first thread on the forum was SS/PS was a trap. I have been arguing with the fantasy genre fans ever since. During these discussions I praised JKR constantly on her ability to achieve masterful suprise twist and even compared her to Agatha Christie (The Queen of Misdirection).
It was obvious upon reading HBP that JKR had ended the book at the midway point and that all JKR had done in HBP was set up the mysteries and that the answers to these mysteries were coming in Deathly Hallows. Having to wait two years to read the second half of a mystery is not something I ever want to do again. I spent way too much time on the forums discussing the theories trying to slove the mysteries. All my theories had the adults acting in a reasonable and logical manner, especially Dumbledore.
Sadly it was all a con. She had no great twist or suprise endings to these mysteries. Deathly Hallows was nothing but a "child's fantasy adventure". Since the series is one big epic, this conclusion not only ruined Deathly Hallows for me, but the entire series.
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Re: THE RUINING OF A CLASSIC
Date: 2009-07-30 08:23 pm (UTC)I went into my favorite book store to buy a new release of one of my favorite authors. I couldn't believe the lines at the checkout stand. It turned out to be the day OOTP was released. Since I live 50 miles from the nearest book store, I decided to go ahead and stand in line. I had never seen anything like what I was seeing. The books were behind the counter and the customers had to have preorder slips before they could buy the book. The man who was about my age in front of me in line had 2 slips. He told me one was for him and one was for his wife because neither would agree to wait for the other to read the book first. I couldn't believe what I was just told. I told him I wasn't a big fantasy fan and I didn't think I would like the series. He saw the book I was buying and told me the series was as much mystery as it was fantasy. I decided the Harry Potter series was a must read, so I had him save my place in line and went and got the four volume set of books 1-4. After reading these I bought the second edition release of OOTP and read it.
I found the twists used by J. K. Rowling (especially POA and GOF) very well prepared and agreed that she was writing mystery along with fanasty. Except for SS/PS the adults acted reasonable in the books. For this reason, I had after finishing my reading of books 1-5 immediately concluded that the true hidden plot of SS/PS was a trap set up by Dumbledore to capture Vapormort which trap was spoiled by the trio. This conclusion caused the entire plotline up to this point to be reasonable to me.
I then forgot about the series until early 2005. I thought it was about time for book 6 to be released so I got on the internet looking for the release date. I found one of the largest Harry Potter discussion forums and found out that my impression of SS/PS was non-existent on the forum, but it was the only explanation that caused the plot of book 1 to make sense to me. My first thread on the forum was SS/PS was a trap. I have been arguing with the fantasy genre fans ever since. During these discussions I praised JKR constantly on her ability to achieve masterful suprise twist and even compared her to Agatha Christie (The Queen of Misdirection).
It was obvious upon reading HBP that JKR had ended the book at the midway point and that all JKR had done in HBP was set up the mysteries and that the answers to these mysteries were coming in Deathly Hallows. Having to wait two years to read the second half of a mystery is not something I ever want to do again. I spent way too much time on the forums discussing the theories trying to slove the mysteries. All my theories had the adults acting in a reasonable and logical manner, especially Dumbledore.
Sadly it was all a con. She had no great twist or suprise endings to these mysteries. Deathly Hallows was nothing but a "child's fantasy adventure". Since the series is one big epic, this conclusion not only ruined Deathly Hallows for me, but the entire series.