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“After all, as Harry could now parrot from numerous books on the subject, abused children weren’t supposed to love their parents.” I’m not sure if that’s the author making something up, or if that was the actual view of things in the ‘90s, or if this is meant to illustrate wizards’ general lack of child-development knowledge. Because I’m pretty sure no one now would ever make that argument.
— Dec 22, 2024 09:54AM
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Dan
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Two chapters to go, but I feel like we could have ended with the chariot flying away and that would have been fine.
— Dec 31, 2024 12:45PM
Dan
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I’ll have a lot to critique when it’s time to write my review, but I don’t have a bad word to say about that battle besides RIP Pansy.
— Dec 30, 2024 10:27PM
Dan
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I love this series and I get they’re fighting a war, but sometimes it seems like the author is making the story grim just for the sake of it.
— Dec 30, 2024 09:45AM
Dan
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I realize that 25% of this book is ~180,000 words (so enough to be a novel on its own), but what kind of crazy person introduced a whole new subplot 75% into a story?
— Dec 29, 2024 03:59PM
Dan
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Everyone talking about getting married/joined at 15 years old is crazy, especially since wizards live about twice as long as humans. They do not need to worry about marriage anytime soon.
— Dec 27, 2024 01:24PM
Dan
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Perhaps I’m just remembering something that happens later, but I don’t get how Harry using Dumbledore’s and Voldemort’s magic to replace the magic of the linchpins to free the Northern Goblins isn’t the obvious thing to do with it. He was going to do it with his own magic at the end of last book, anyway—maybe now he’s actually considered about the inheritance issues that Light families would object to?
— Dec 27, 2024 07:23AM
Dan
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I can’t feel much sympathy over the reveal that Voldemort has Snape because maybe someone would have figured it out earlier if one single person had thought to try telling Snape even just “brb, off to the Dursleys’”
— Dec 26, 2024 01:39PM
Dan
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I remembered a huge fight with Dumbledore but couldn’t recall details, so when I read Dumbledore attacking Harry at school in COoDM, I thought that must be what I was thinking of and was underwhelmed. With good reason—this one was WAY better.
— Dec 24, 2024 06:10PM
Dan
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I thought compellers were immune to stuff like possession, though I suppose I might have just made that up in the years since I’ve read this.
— Dec 24, 2024 12:08PM
Dan
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I get why Draco and Snape are mad, but I’d be tempted to not mention Digle’s stabbing attempt too, given they accuse him of actively risking his life even when something completely out of his control happens. Draco got mad at him for the Dark striking him with lightning as if that were Harry’s fault, after all.
— Dec 23, 2024 03:53PM
Harry's also incredibly self-deluded here, though. He's hearing and reading only what he wants, ignoring everything that doesn't fit his worldview. Connor's been open about his complex feelings, so have Remus and McGonagall. But all Harry hears is that they don't support his absolutely batcrap fucking crazy idea that he should "heal" his parents and Dumbledore.