a brief announcement

[jchrisobrien]

I can now discuss the Potter book.
That is all.

EDIT Obviously, there will be spoilers in the commentary section. Don't jump in unless you've read the book!

Comments

[phaidros.livejournal.com]

D'oh! I'm just a few chapters away from the ending -- just finished looking at ******'s thoughts in the pensieve.

(SPOILERS BELOW)

I have to say, so far I'm quite satisfied. It's strange having a Potter book with so little Hogwarts in it, but at the same time I think Rowling did a brilliant job of bringing it in, along with all our old favorite characters. The epic climactic conclusion (and I haven't even GOTTEN to a fight with Voldemort yet) really felt right.

I do wish more Snape had been in it. I'm pretty pleased with how she did address Snape, the answers she provided -- I'll almost certainly post more thoughts in my own LJ -- but I also feel that after the last book, Snape should have had a larger part in this one. The last one was really setting the stage for rolling up our sleeves and figuring this bastard out -- the opening chapter with him and the Unbreakable Vow, the murder of Dumbledore, it just seemed as though everything had come to a head and it was finally time to get into this man's head. And we do, technically, but only after hundreds of pages in which he really doesn't appear all that much.

The fanboy in me wants an epilogue book, Book 8, in which we go back and see more of what happened at Hogwarts under the Snape regime. I think it'd be great reading, and in a way, it would feel more like a proper Harry Potter book, despite the fact that Harry would not appear in it until the very end...

[rishikanta.livejournal.com]

me too, as of noon on Sunday.
I had no life.