HEAVY SPOILER WARNING
Quote: " My problem with the series is that she designed the books for the hype from day one."
She was a struggling single mother whose publisher told her she barely stood a chance getting on store shelves from day one. Hype had very little to do with it
Quote: "The last two books have stunned me, the people that Harry have felt closest to have died. Sirius and Dumbledore.. Where were the castles houseelves that had such unimaginable powers? Why hadnt harry called Kreiver to help? Or Dobby?"
Harry was
perfectus total-ified, he couldn't open his mouth to call for help, never mind that he was in something of a state of shock.
I'm not sure why you're so angry she's killed off the people Harry feels closest too-- that's the entire point, that's exactly what Voldie is trying to do and the reprecussions it has on his character are, I think, almost flawlessly portrayed by her. She's done a fantastic job showing very clearly how dangerous and dark the world she's writing about actually is.
Quote: "Obviously Harry hasnt thought about next year... He simply thinks he's going to walk away from everyone and pursue his own "goals". In all truth, the teachers and the order of the phoenix will stop him, or atleast help him. He will not simply vanish from them."
That's the point, he's going to need and use their help; he's hardly stupid. But he's not going back to school and he's not continuing his life as usual. I'm pretty sure he thinks, on some level at least, that he's going to die killing Voldemort (he very well might, kid's books or not, at the rate the series is going).
Personally I find his character to be quite tragic by the end of book 6. Cedric's death screwed him up a bit, but his friends were there for him to help him get through it; Sirius' death layered on even more guilt and anger which he still hasn't gotten rid of, but with Dumbledore's passing I think he's finally seeing that his purpose is far more important than his or his friends' lives, and in that he's found focus.
Funny how many parralels there are at this point between the HP series and a good superhero movie (Spiderman, Batman Begins).
Quote: "I think that Rowling had been getting too many complaints about the "Perfect Ending" that she typically wrote with."
Books one and two may qualify but she's been having darker, grimer endings since Book 3.
Oh yeah, and did anyone else notice the similarities between the Death Eater attacks in the books and the paranoia it causes, and the terrorist attacks of the modern world? Kind of odd how when that whole thing started in Book 4, there was really no real life parralel for most people, but the 'world of fear' she's writing about seems a lot more real today.
