Plotlines you could've lived without?, Were there any that you would have re-written? |
  Oct 3 2008, 07:26 AM
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Eeylops Owl Cage Cleaner  Posts: 234 Joined: 11:48pm May 31, 2007 Location: In the Three Broomsticks happily drinking Butterbeer   |
Ok, so sometimes you just read something and you go - "Oh, uhm...riiight, yea don't really get that..."
If there were any plot lines I would have scratched it would definitely be the whole Harry being mad at Hermione for half of POA. I hated that. A chapter or two, yea, but I just really didn't like any of that --------------------  |
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Oct 3 2008, 07:59 AM
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Daily Prophet Photographer Posts: 861 Joined: 10:04am June 8, 2005 Location: Yes, it's a stuffed Homer in towel. You can stop staring now. |
Harry? Don't you mean Ron?
Anyway, I disliked the character of Hugo Bagman on GoF. It was such a big red herring, but in the end that character was only used to setup Harry to give his prize for the twin's joke shop, something that could've been done on OotP. --------------------  |
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Oct 3 2008, 01:48 PM
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Cauldron Bottom Measurer Posts: 99 Joined: 4:41pm November 17, 2007 |
i thought the escape from the bank on the dragon's back was done wrong.
the animal was squeezing through some very tight holes, enlarging them to get through, with Harry & Ron & Hermione sitting on its back. it just seemed so - impossible. granted, it's magic, but i like my magic to be somewhat logical. if they had cast spells to help them hold on for a VERY wild ride, and spells to protect them from being squished, it would have made more sense. -------------------- "A room in the Department of Mysteries. It contains a Force that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than Death, than human intelligence, than Forces of Nature."
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Oct 3 2008, 03:42 PM
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Junior Dishwasher at The Leaky Cauldron Posts: 641 Joined: 8:47pm August 26, 2008 Location: The room of requirement waiting for Snape |
Yeah I thought the "hugo bagman" (it's actually Ludo lol :-P) was a bit....boring
And the dragon chapter I kind of disliked aswell. -------------------- ....and there was a noise like a plunger being withdrawn from a blocked sink......
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Oct 3 2008, 03:59 PM
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Daily Prophet Photographer Posts: 861 Joined: 10:04am June 8, 2005 Location: Yes, it's a stuffed Homer in towel. You can stop staring now. |
Whoops.
 See? Not even a good spot on my memory, that Bagman. Also, I would've enjoyed less of Umbridge and more screentime of the DA and the Order on OotP. This post has been edited by Kaiser-Kun: Oct 3 2008, 04:00 PM -------------------- |
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Oct 5 2008, 09:13 AM
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Kibble Boy/Girl at the Magical Menagerie Posts: 305 Joined: 10:39am December 28, 2007 |
I think in OotP we could have used with a little more interaction between the Order and the Trio.
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How many wizards does it take to change a light bulb? If Harry and Ron had let Hermione be killed by a troll or never made her cry at all, would they ever have figured anything out? |
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Oct 5 2008, 10:32 AM
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Buying a Half-Kneazle Posts: 540 Joined: 7:57pm July 26, 2008 Location: Upstate, NY... setting up the local recruiting office for Dumbledore's Army  |
QUOTE(Poufsouffle @ Oct 5 2008, 10:13 AM)  I think in OotP we could have used with a little more interaction between the Order and the Trio. Absolutely! And mayble more Harry/Sirius/Lupin time... I know it's meant to convey just how unfair it is to both Harry and Siruis, but I think things could have been a bit easier. --------------------  "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love" Corinthians 3:13 Avvie and siggy by Kendra.Dumbledore, Artwork by Mudblood428 |
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Oct 5 2008, 10:40 AM
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Monster Book Stacker Posts: 358 Joined: 9:13am August 11, 2007 |
I liked the riding on the dragon bit. Guess I was the only one.
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Oct 5 2008, 11:20 AM
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Stocking Snitches at Quality Quidditch Supplies Posts: 665 Joined: 11:29am November 2, 2006 Location: HP fandom |
Grawp. Sorry Grawp-fans, but I have still not quite understood why he was in the story in the first place. Completely superfluous, IMHO. I personally found the storyline annoying and boring.
QUOTE(CoolCatElly @ Oct 3 2008, 08:26 AM) Ok, so sometimes you just read something and you go - "Oh, uhm...riiight, yea don't really get that..." It was certainly hard to read about the boys having fallouts with Hermione throughout a considerable part of PoA (although overall it wasn't that long, IMO, it just seems to us that way), but it was necessary for the characters' development and the development of their friendships for all of them to have quarrels and fallouts at one point or the other during the course of the series. People and relationships grow with overcoming them. And the trio did and turned out stronger in the end than before. If there were any plot lines I would have scratched it would definitely be the whole Harry being mad at Hermione for half of POA. I hated that. A chapter or two, yea, but I just really didn't like any of that -------------------- Ron Weasley: Keeper, Knight and King JKR: "I don't think good books are written to a formula" JK Rowling Chat, AOL Live, May 4, 2000 |
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Oct 5 2008, 12:05 PM
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Triwizard Champ of the Lily and Stag Inn  Posts: 2,293 Joined: 8:34am April 9, 2008 Location: Dancing in a forest, barefooted and at midnight with Natasha Khan |
I loved the dragon bit too, so you're not the only one who enjoyed that part ShanksForte.
I could have lived without Grawp too though. -------------------- |
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