So, a weird thing happened to me today. I decided to google my own name. I was just messing around on the computer, avoiding grading the tests I currently have in my possession. I started with my married name and received only boring, work-related results, as well as the results for some other woman who happens to share my name in Colorado. She looks like she's got a busy, interesting life. She does a lot of running--marathons. She must be driven! Anyway, since I received some pretty dull results, I found myself at a bit of a crossroads. Still wishing to postpone the grading of these probably pathetic tests, I decided to google my maiden name. This is when things became interesting this evening. As a teacher you always find yourself wondering if you've ever truly mattered, if you've ever truly "reached" a student. Tonight, through the wonders of Google, I have my answer.
During the Winter/Spring semester of 1997, I, as a senior in college, was doing my student teaching at Washington High School in South Bend, Indiana. One of my responsibilities that semester was to teach a creative writing class. This was an exciting, yet daunting proposition for me. I love writing, and I love teaching writing, but when I walked into this particular class, I was greeted with an interesting mixture of responses to having a student teacher. These responses ranged from plain apathy to adoration that was a bit smothering to blatant, callous negativity and harsh judgment. I took a deep breath and dove in. We had our struggles and our triumphs throughout the course of my time there, and our biggest success was reaching a point of mutual understanding and appreciation. We learned to value fantastic writing together, and, more importantly, we learned how to produce it. We shared a goal of putting together the best literary magazine possible, and it cemented us as a class.
Anyway, I should get to my point. So, I was googling my name and I stumbled upon my name mentioned in a blog written by one of my former students in this class. Of course I was curious, so I clicked the link. I discovered, to my surprise, that the particular post that mentioned my name referenced this particular creative writing class and the positive memories he and his friends had of it. He was also practicing a writing technique that I had taught him so many years ago.
After all of the trials and tribulations and fun and inspiration and general mix of feelings involved in my first foray into teaching, indeed it was worthwhile to someone else besides me. What a thrill! It's rare as a teacher to find out from a student that what you've done for him mattered. It's a special, precious thing--I'll never forget it. Stumbling upon this post and this blog could quite possibly buoy me up for the next ten years of my teaching career! I wonder how many more blogs of former students I'll stumble upon before my career is over--I hope it's many more! :)
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Dumbledore was intended to be gay? Who cares?!
Okay, this one will be short, but sweet. Why on earth did J.K. Rowling announce that her intention was that Dumbledore was gay?! Does this really matter in the grand scope of the HP series? Or, was this just another pathetic attempt on the part of JK to keep herself in the tabloids? It seems to me that Dumbledore's sexuality as a character has no bearing whatsoever on the story, so why reveal it? To me, this is adds support to the fact that I feel JK developed an addiction to seeing her face in the media over the years of writing HP, and now, she's suffering from withdrawal because the fervor is dying down. I think she'll say just about any bogus thing about her characters to keep herself and the books in the media. Pathetic.
Monday, July 30, 2007
HP7 Review from the UK
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/childrenandteens/0,,2136198,00.html
My husband just found this review and sent it to me, so I thought I'd attach it to my blog. It really praises JKR for her Harry Potter "idea," but at the same time judges her writing to be much less than "genius." This has been my theory all along about JKR. I fully give her credit for having a great idea and seeing that idea come to fruition; however, she is not a great writer. Truly, I think this is one thing that bugs me about the world today. You are judged to be successful only if you've hit the jackpot commercially, financially--if you've got themeparks created for you! Just because Ms. Rowling has written seven books, does not make her a "great" writer; it makes her a "great marketer"; it makes her a "great businesswoman"; it makes her a person who never again has to worry about living on public assistance. In my humble opinion, JKR lacks the intrinsic quality of a great writer: the ability NOT to get lost in your own story. I've said it before in a previous post that I believe books 1-5 of the Potter phenomena were on course and displayed a certain amount of logic here and there. She had established enough of the storyline to hook her readers and engage them enough to keep reading for the final showdown between Voldemort and Harry. Then, for books 6 & 7, in an attempt to stretch things out as much as possible toward the final end, to fulfill her promise of seven books, and to make them as long as possible, she took her readers through some very unnecessary twists and turns. A great writer doesn't need to stretch stories to make them longer. A great writer is able to logically stay the course, and, yet, subtly fill in any blanks along the way. A great writer does not drop big (ultimately meaningless) bombs of information into her stories--making them clunky to both read and carry around. Ms. Rowling's problems were major: 1) She succumbed to the marketing mania, 2) She got lost in her own details, and 3) She failed to trust her readers.
My husband just found this review and sent it to me, so I thought I'd attach it to my blog. It really praises JKR for her Harry Potter "idea," but at the same time judges her writing to be much less than "genius." This has been my theory all along about JKR. I fully give her credit for having a great idea and seeing that idea come to fruition; however, she is not a great writer. Truly, I think this is one thing that bugs me about the world today. You are judged to be successful only if you've hit the jackpot commercially, financially--if you've got themeparks created for you! Just because Ms. Rowling has written seven books, does not make her a "great" writer; it makes her a "great marketer"; it makes her a "great businesswoman"; it makes her a person who never again has to worry about living on public assistance. In my humble opinion, JKR lacks the intrinsic quality of a great writer: the ability NOT to get lost in your own story. I've said it before in a previous post that I believe books 1-5 of the Potter phenomena were on course and displayed a certain amount of logic here and there. She had established enough of the storyline to hook her readers and engage them enough to keep reading for the final showdown between Voldemort and Harry. Then, for books 6 & 7, in an attempt to stretch things out as much as possible toward the final end, to fulfill her promise of seven books, and to make them as long as possible, she took her readers through some very unnecessary twists and turns. A great writer doesn't need to stretch stories to make them longer. A great writer is able to logically stay the course, and, yet, subtly fill in any blanks along the way. A great writer does not drop big (ultimately meaningless) bombs of information into her stories--making them clunky to both read and carry around. Ms. Rowling's problems were major: 1) She succumbed to the marketing mania, 2) She got lost in her own details, and 3) She failed to trust her readers.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Reactions to HP7 #2 **Spoilers**
I told you that there'd be more:
12. Let's start with the horcruxes, shall we?
* In HBP the horcruxes were cursed. The ring cursed
Dumbldore--even though we later find out it's a
Hallow. The locket continued to "curse" the wearer
with a bad mood and tried to choke Harry when he
stupidly wore it to get the Gryffindor sword. It also
posed a challenge for Ron when Ron was supposed to
destroy it. This was entertaining. It had reminders
of the difficulty Harry had in destroying Tom Riddle's
diary in order to save Ginny. The only powerful
horcruxes that posed difficulty in destruction were
the ring, the diary, the locket, and Nagini. Why was
it relatively easy to destroy the Hufflepuff cup and
the tiara once they found them and got ahold of
them???
**There was an awful lot of "aimless" wandering in
"search" of the horcruxes. It's like JKR forgot that
the focus of the story begun in HBP should have been
the adventure of finding and destroying the horcruxes
in DH.
13. Pathetic Voldemort issues:
* Why was Voldemort "lurking" when Dumbledore--"the
only wizard he ever feared"--was securely dead? He
should've been ruling the world!
**Why on earth did JKR portray him as stupid and
clueless? This is supposed to be the ultimate
villain, right? Ultimate villains are never stupid or
clueless. How on earth is it believable that he
wasn't "aware" when his horcruxes had been found and
destroyed? How on earth was he "not aware" that
Potter could read his mind? After all, he was made
aware of it in OOTP when Harry alerted all to the fact
that Arthur had been attacked in the Dept. of
Mysteries! Suddenly, by book 7, Voldy seems to have
suffered a convenient case of amnesia? Finally, how
is this ultimate villain, who has made it a habit to
locate specific historical artifacts for his horcruxes
NOT aware of a "simple" case of wandlore--i.e. the
existence of the Elder Wand until book 7????
***If He-Who- Must- Not -Be -Named was soooo hungry for
power, why didn't he know and search for this Elder
Wand much earlier in the series?
****Now, as for the attack on Lily, James and Harry in
Godric's Hollow: it is suggested in book 7 that Harry
was "accidentally" made a horcrux when Voldy's curse
rebounded off Harry. It explained that the fragment
of his soul sought Harry's warm body. Two questions
here: Why does this particular soul-fragment need a
warm body, when the others are cozy in artifacts at
this point in the story? And, what was left of
Voldemort after this? The book mentions that he was
without a body, and presumably, only left with his
"mean spirit" in tact. ERRR...isn't a "mean spirit"
connected to a "soul"???? Shouldn't that "mean
spirit" have ended up in Harry, too, and therefore,
there shouldn't have been anything left of Voldemort
at all????
14. Snape and Gryffindor sword question: Why does
Snape have to deliver the sword to the pond in the
forest via the silver doe? Isn't it true that the
sword of Godric Gryffindor presents itself through the
Sorting Hat whenever a true Gryffindor is in need of
it? So, why didn't it just present itself to Harry,
Ron and Hermione when they managed to get the locket?
Why did it just appear for Neville when he needed to
destroy Nagini? The plot doesn't follow logically
there.
15. Where the hell was Fawkes in all this? Phoenixes
can't die. Fawkes didn't die with Dumbledore, and it
seems like Fawkes could have really come in very handy
during this whole story, esp. her healing qualities.
What the hell happened to her? This could've been a
way that Dumbledore assured help for Harry, even
though he personally couldn't be there.
16. The Elder Wand: Okay, this was interesting.
Grindewald stole this wand from Gregorovich (who
somehow obtained it ultimately from Death), so
Grindewald had the wand's allegiance. Then,
Dumbledore won the allegiance of the wand from the
duel. Dumbledore retained possession of said wand's
allegiance until the night on the tower when Draco
disarmed him, but didn't pick up the wand physically.
The wand was ultimately buried with Dumbledore until
Voldemort broke open his grave to get it. Voldemort
thought he had the wand's allegiance because he was
physically possessing the wand during the ultimate
duel with Harry. However, Harry had physically taken
possession of the wand Draco was using as well as two
others in Malfoy Manor. Even though Draco had NEVER
touched the Elder Wand, nor had Harry, how on earth
was Harry (via Draco supposedly) in control of the
Elder Wand? Shouldn't Draco have had to hold it at
least once and Harry have had to disarm him of that
particular wand at least once and ultimately touch it
at least once to be in control of it? It seems to me,
since Draco never touched it nor did Harry, that
Voldemort physically took it from Dumbledore (via the
grave) and he sort of "won" that "duel" so it
should've worked for him--as neither of the other two
touched it. Furthermore, if when Harry's using his
newly repaired wand and he is disarmed of that wand,
does that mean he loses possession of the Elder Wand's
allegiance as well as his own wand? In that event,
the Elder Wand's allegiance could end up, once again,
in some power-hungry person's hands. And this problem
starts all over again. This is a very weak plot
device!
17. Shouldn't Lily's eyes have been connected to the
ability to cast charms somehow?
18. Whatever happened to the importance of learning
how to cast spells without shouting them? (Snape
tries to give this advice to Harry at the end of HBP.)
Ultimately, I feel that books 1-5 had direction.
This story was leading somewhere specific. Books 6 &
7 seemed to stumble around, going nowhere fast. Then,
in the ultimate confrontation, life was a little too
lucky-- a little too easy. I feel like JKR developed
a habit of dropping huge pieces of information in the
middle of each book, seemingly designed to be
important in the final confrontation and defeat of
Lord Voldemort; however, she dropped a lot of this
stuff like hot rocks as soon as they started to
complicate her story.
For example, the first book set
up Harry as the reluctant hero, which she's been able
to successfully maintain thoughout the series. She
introduced the Chamber of Secrets in book 2, which was
haphazardly thrown in at the end of book 7 pretty
randomly. She introduced the Marauder's Map in book
3, which helped Harry to Hogsmeade and other places,
and he randomly glanced at it in book 7, but seemed to
promptly forget its use quickly. Book 4 introduced
the Tri-wizard Tournament and the spirit of world-wide
magical cooperation, yet this wasn't developed at all
in book 7. There was very little magical cooperation
"world-wide" in the defeat of this oh-so-ultimate
villan. Fleur was mentioned because she married Bill
and Krum was randomly invited to the Weasley wedding
in order to mention how he didn't like Xeno's symbol.
There could have been a world war instead of one
confined to "Hogwarts" and "the Ministry." Anyway,
speaking of the Ministry, it contains lots of secrets
that could've been helpful in the war against
Voldemort. The Department of Mysteries was introduced
in Book 5, but never brought into play after book 5.
(What the hell happened to the "veil"? ) Then, book 6
brought in horcruxes--an interesting introduction into
the adventure to come in book 7--the search and defeat
of Voldemort. This seemed to be going places until
the horcrux theory came to a virtual standstill for
the majority of book 7 and then changed to focus
entirely too much on a new theory--the Hallows. JKR
has trouble keeping to one storyline and following it
to a logical conclusion. Throughout the series she
kept changing major plot points and dropping plot
points until she'd thoroughly confunded herself with
her own Confundus Charm.
Has it been an interesting ride? Sure. Disappointing?
Definitely. Lots of holes in her story, and a very
stupid epilogue to boot. I look back and love the
first five books in the series--definitely no time
wasted there, but books 6 and 7 were utter let downs.
She tried to change the course of her story too often
midstream, and that's frustrating for those of us, who
perhaps have paid a bit too much attention to Harry's
saga along the way.
12. Let's start with the horcruxes, shall we?
* In HBP the horcruxes were cursed. The ring cursed
Dumbldore--even though we later find out it's a
Hallow. The locket continued to "curse" the wearer
with a bad mood and tried to choke Harry when he
stupidly wore it to get the Gryffindor sword. It also
posed a challenge for Ron when Ron was supposed to
destroy it. This was entertaining. It had reminders
of the difficulty Harry had in destroying Tom Riddle's
diary in order to save Ginny. The only powerful
horcruxes that posed difficulty in destruction were
the ring, the diary, the locket, and Nagini. Why was
it relatively easy to destroy the Hufflepuff cup and
the tiara once they found them and got ahold of
them???
**There was an awful lot of "aimless" wandering in
"search" of the horcruxes. It's like JKR forgot that
the focus of the story begun in HBP should have been
the adventure of finding and destroying the horcruxes
in DH.
13. Pathetic Voldemort issues:
* Why was Voldemort "lurking" when Dumbledore--"the
only wizard he ever feared"--was securely dead? He
should've been ruling the world!
**Why on earth did JKR portray him as stupid and
clueless? This is supposed to be the ultimate
villain, right? Ultimate villains are never stupid or
clueless. How on earth is it believable that he
wasn't "aware" when his horcruxes had been found and
destroyed? How on earth was he "not aware" that
Potter could read his mind? After all, he was made
aware of it in OOTP when Harry alerted all to the fact
that Arthur had been attacked in the Dept. of
Mysteries! Suddenly, by book 7, Voldy seems to have
suffered a convenient case of amnesia? Finally, how
is this ultimate villain, who has made it a habit to
locate specific historical artifacts for his horcruxes
NOT aware of a "simple" case of wandlore--i.e. the
existence of the Elder Wand until book 7????
***If He-Who- Must- Not -Be -Named was soooo hungry for
power, why didn't he know and search for this Elder
Wand much earlier in the series?
****Now, as for the attack on Lily, James and Harry in
Godric's Hollow: it is suggested in book 7 that Harry
was "accidentally" made a horcrux when Voldy's curse
rebounded off Harry. It explained that the fragment
of his soul sought Harry's warm body. Two questions
here: Why does this particular soul-fragment need a
warm body, when the others are cozy in artifacts at
this point in the story? And, what was left of
Voldemort after this? The book mentions that he was
without a body, and presumably, only left with his
"mean spirit" in tact. ERRR...isn't a "mean spirit"
connected to a "soul"???? Shouldn't that "mean
spirit" have ended up in Harry, too, and therefore,
there shouldn't have been anything left of Voldemort
at all????
14. Snape and Gryffindor sword question: Why does
Snape have to deliver the sword to the pond in the
forest via the silver doe? Isn't it true that the
sword of Godric Gryffindor presents itself through the
Sorting Hat whenever a true Gryffindor is in need of
it? So, why didn't it just present itself to Harry,
Ron and Hermione when they managed to get the locket?
Why did it just appear for Neville when he needed to
destroy Nagini? The plot doesn't follow logically
there.
15. Where the hell was Fawkes in all this? Phoenixes
can't die. Fawkes didn't die with Dumbledore, and it
seems like Fawkes could have really come in very handy
during this whole story, esp. her healing qualities.
What the hell happened to her? This could've been a
way that Dumbledore assured help for Harry, even
though he personally couldn't be there.
16. The Elder Wand: Okay, this was interesting.
Grindewald stole this wand from Gregorovich (who
somehow obtained it ultimately from Death), so
Grindewald had the wand's allegiance. Then,
Dumbledore won the allegiance of the wand from the
duel. Dumbledore retained possession of said wand's
allegiance until the night on the tower when Draco
disarmed him, but didn't pick up the wand physically.
The wand was ultimately buried with Dumbledore until
Voldemort broke open his grave to get it. Voldemort
thought he had the wand's allegiance because he was
physically possessing the wand during the ultimate
duel with Harry. However, Harry had physically taken
possession of the wand Draco was using as well as two
others in Malfoy Manor. Even though Draco had NEVER
touched the Elder Wand, nor had Harry, how on earth
was Harry (via Draco supposedly) in control of the
Elder Wand? Shouldn't Draco have had to hold it at
least once and Harry have had to disarm him of that
particular wand at least once and ultimately touch it
at least once to be in control of it? It seems to me,
since Draco never touched it nor did Harry, that
Voldemort physically took it from Dumbledore (via the
grave) and he sort of "won" that "duel" so it
should've worked for him--as neither of the other two
touched it. Furthermore, if when Harry's using his
newly repaired wand and he is disarmed of that wand,
does that mean he loses possession of the Elder Wand's
allegiance as well as his own wand? In that event,
the Elder Wand's allegiance could end up, once again,
in some power-hungry person's hands. And this problem
starts all over again. This is a very weak plot
device!
17. Shouldn't Lily's eyes have been connected to the
ability to cast charms somehow?
18. Whatever happened to the importance of learning
how to cast spells without shouting them? (Snape
tries to give this advice to Harry at the end of HBP.)
Ultimately, I feel that books 1-5 had direction.
This story was leading somewhere specific. Books 6 &
7 seemed to stumble around, going nowhere fast. Then,
in the ultimate confrontation, life was a little too
lucky-- a little too easy. I feel like JKR developed
a habit of dropping huge pieces of information in the
middle of each book, seemingly designed to be
important in the final confrontation and defeat of
Lord Voldemort; however, she dropped a lot of this
stuff like hot rocks as soon as they started to
complicate her story.
For example, the first book set
up Harry as the reluctant hero, which she's been able
to successfully maintain thoughout the series. She
introduced the Chamber of Secrets in book 2, which was
haphazardly thrown in at the end of book 7 pretty
randomly. She introduced the Marauder's Map in book
3, which helped Harry to Hogsmeade and other places,
and he randomly glanced at it in book 7, but seemed to
promptly forget its use quickly. Book 4 introduced
the Tri-wizard Tournament and the spirit of world-wide
magical cooperation, yet this wasn't developed at all
in book 7. There was very little magical cooperation
"world-wide" in the defeat of this oh-so-ultimate
villan. Fleur was mentioned because she married Bill
and Krum was randomly invited to the Weasley wedding
in order to mention how he didn't like Xeno's symbol.
There could have been a world war instead of one
confined to "Hogwarts" and "the Ministry." Anyway,
speaking of the Ministry, it contains lots of secrets
that could've been helpful in the war against
Voldemort. The Department of Mysteries was introduced
in Book 5, but never brought into play after book 5.
(What the hell happened to the "veil"? ) Then, book 6
brought in horcruxes--an interesting introduction into
the adventure to come in book 7--the search and defeat
of Voldemort. This seemed to be going places until
the horcrux theory came to a virtual standstill for
the majority of book 7 and then changed to focus
entirely too much on a new theory--the Hallows. JKR
has trouble keeping to one storyline and following it
to a logical conclusion. Throughout the series she
kept changing major plot points and dropping plot
points until she'd thoroughly confunded herself with
her own Confundus Charm.
Has it been an interesting ride? Sure. Disappointing?
Definitely. Lots of holes in her story, and a very
stupid epilogue to boot. I look back and love the
first five books in the series--definitely no time
wasted there, but books 6 and 7 were utter let downs.
She tried to change the course of her story too often
midstream, and that's frustrating for those of us, who
perhaps have paid a bit too much attention to Harry's
saga along the way.
Reactions to HP7 #1 **Spoilers**
My reaction and disappointment towards J.K. Rowling's last edition in the saga of Harry Potter has actually released me from my laziness and forced me to finally create a blog. My friends have been harping on me to do this for years, and now, Ms. Rowling has finally forced the issue. I just had to react in some way! Thus, my blogging life begins:
This is just the beginning of the collection of
questions left virtually unanswered by JKR in book 7,
making it codswallop, in my opinion.
1. JKR made this huge deal about Lily's eyes, leading
everyone to believe that the fact that Harry had them
was extraordinarily important. Her eyes were only
important to Snape. That's crappy.
2. Completely unanswered question: Who will show
magic later in life? (I believe she forgot she told
people in interviews that she'd answer this one.)
3. While the Deathly Hallows and the story around
them were very interesting, they made the story in the
HBP of the Horcruxes totally useless. In establishing
the Elder Wand theory, she never needed to make Harry
a horcrux. She succumbed to fanfiction here--a sign
of weakness in a writer.
4. The Epilogue was the worst part. I mean really,
"Albus Severus????"--I used to love Ginny Weasley, but she
and Harry should be shot for naming their kid
that--he'll be tortured for life! Plus, Draco's
"Scorpius"??? That kid will be tortured, too! Also,
what the hell? Do Harry, Ron, Ginny, Hermione, etc.
have jobs? Are they successful or are they just
hangin' around the Burrow living with everyone else
'cause they're too lazy to have careers???? What
about Luna? What's she doing now? The Epilogue
didn't really wrap anything up. Codswallop. (Are
Harry's kids ready for the noteriety they'll find at
Hogwarts? Al obviously isn't.)
5. Crookshanks--kneazel or animagus or just a cat?
6. No mention of the door in the department of
mysteries where they're studying "loves effects on
magic"--This was very important in book five, but it's
like JKR completely forgot about that too. I do think
she got overwhelmed with her own story and completely
got lost as to where she was going a couple of times.
7. Who got a "reprieve"?
8. Who's the new headmaster at Hogwarts?
9. Who was "Snape's source"?
10. When did Harry master apparating? Did Ron ever
pass?
11. Meaning of U.S. Cover Art? It had nothing to do
with the book itself! Grandpre must have been reading
a different book--perhaps JKR was referring to a
different story, too, in interviews???
Like I said, those are just the first, preliminary
questions and comments that came to mind when I
finished. I'm sure I'll think of more!
Fundamentally, I had such high hopes for this series, and now ... I just feel like a lot of time was wasted. I'm sure I'll get over it, but until then there will be at least one more HP post to come.
This is just the beginning of the collection of
questions left virtually unanswered by JKR in book 7,
making it codswallop, in my opinion.
1. JKR made this huge deal about Lily's eyes, leading
everyone to believe that the fact that Harry had them
was extraordinarily important. Her eyes were only
important to Snape. That's crappy.
2. Completely unanswered question: Who will show
magic later in life? (I believe she forgot she told
people in interviews that she'd answer this one.)
3. While the Deathly Hallows and the story around
them were very interesting, they made the story in the
HBP of the Horcruxes totally useless. In establishing
the Elder Wand theory, she never needed to make Harry
a horcrux. She succumbed to fanfiction here--a sign
of weakness in a writer.
4. The Epilogue was the worst part. I mean really,
"Albus Severus????"--I used to love Ginny Weasley, but she
and Harry should be shot for naming their kid
that--he'll be tortured for life! Plus, Draco's
"Scorpius"??? That kid will be tortured, too! Also,
what the hell? Do Harry, Ron, Ginny, Hermione, etc.
have jobs? Are they successful or are they just
hangin' around the Burrow living with everyone else
'cause they're too lazy to have careers???? What
about Luna? What's she doing now? The Epilogue
didn't really wrap anything up. Codswallop. (Are
Harry's kids ready for the noteriety they'll find at
Hogwarts? Al obviously isn't.)
5. Crookshanks--kneazel or animagus or just a cat?
6. No mention of the door in the department of
mysteries where they're studying "loves effects on
magic"--This was very important in book five, but it's
like JKR completely forgot about that too. I do think
she got overwhelmed with her own story and completely
got lost as to where she was going a couple of times.
7. Who got a "reprieve"?
8. Who's the new headmaster at Hogwarts?
9. Who was "Snape's source"?
10. When did Harry master apparating? Did Ron ever
pass?
11. Meaning of U.S. Cover Art? It had nothing to do
with the book itself! Grandpre must have been reading
a different book--perhaps JKR was referring to a
different story, too, in interviews???
Like I said, those are just the first, preliminary
questions and comments that came to mind when I
finished. I'm sure I'll think of more!
Fundamentally, I had such high hopes for this series, and now ... I just feel like a lot of time was wasted. I'm sure I'll get over it, but until then there will be at least one more HP post to come.
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