Too many characters twisted around just for plot reasons
Other than Kreacher, which characters do you think were twisted around for plot convenience?
I see (from your blog) that you agree with me that Remus' spinelessness in DH is continuing a trend that started from his appearance in POA. I also think Dumbledore's Machiavellistic thinking has been around since PS (I'd say it was even in the first chapter) - it was just harder to notice before we knew about the prophecy, Horcruxes and Harry's being one.
Hermione's morality had been going gradually downhill from the first book but really accelerated in that direction around the time she kidnapped Rita Skeeter and never really recovered. (I read Hermione as Harry's mobile superego, with Ron as his mobile id, so I find it unsurprising that the acceleration of Harry's moral deterioration takes place in HBP, after Hermione's feats of wrongness and bad judgment in OOTP.) The biggest change about Hermione in DH is that she suddenly became wonderwoman in dueling and escaping - leading to several HG/SS authors have her undergo some kind of mentorship by Severus out of Harry's view during HBP.
Who else changed in ways that are discontinuous from their characterization in previous books?
Oh, I think I know one: Voldemort. Before DH I thought he was rather intelligent and good at planning ahead. In DH he made (or proved that he had made in the past) one Evil Overlord mistake after the other.
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Re: What I'm wondering is-
Date: 2009-08-13 11:35 pm (UTC)Other than Kreacher, which characters do you think were twisted around for plot convenience?
I see (from your blog) that you agree with me that Remus' spinelessness in DH is continuing a trend that started from his appearance in POA. I also think Dumbledore's Machiavellistic thinking has been around since PS (I'd say it was even in the first chapter) - it was just harder to notice before we knew about the prophecy, Horcruxes and Harry's being one.
Hermione's morality had been going gradually downhill from the first book but really accelerated in that direction around the time she kidnapped Rita Skeeter and never really recovered. (I read Hermione as Harry's mobile superego, with Ron as his mobile id, so I find it unsurprising that the acceleration of Harry's moral deterioration takes place in HBP, after Hermione's feats of wrongness and bad judgment in OOTP.) The biggest change about Hermione in DH is that she suddenly became wonderwoman in dueling and escaping - leading to several HG/SS authors have her undergo some kind of mentorship by Severus out of Harry's view during HBP.
Who else changed in ways that are discontinuous from their characterization in previous books?
Oh, I think I know one: Voldemort. Before DH I thought he was rather intelligent and good at planning ahead. In DH he made (or proved that he had made in the past) one Evil Overlord mistake after the other.