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So... has anyone else but me read it?
I'm still in two minds regarding what I feel about it... I think overall, I'd rate it as good, but I'm not entirely sure. It had plenty of stuff in it that I didn't care too much about... and I've read better written fanfics than this (with a lot of the same stuff in them, apart from the whole Dumbledore/Grindelwald storyline).
It had weird plot holes, questionable things any decent editor ought to have noticed (Hermione modifying the memories of her parents to a massive extent and then saying about two pages later that she's never tried a memory charm? huh? did she perform a Confundus charm on herself in the meantime?), and the whole wand ownership stuff was a bit rubbish IMHO... and the epilogue was cheese of the most major sort (and copied about 57 fanfics I've read), and I kept hoping Ron would die or something, so that Hermione wouldn't have to end up with him... but on the other hand, I couldn't put the book down for the seven or so hours that it took me to read it (my back is killing me!) and I did enjoy a lot of it.
And Snape's the romantic, brave, noble hero!! Who got a very lousy and pointless death (well, it was still better than the one Lupin and Tonks got - I mean, huh?), true, but on the other hand, with no mention of what happened to his body and no portrait turning up in the headmaster's room, I can pretend he didn't really die, I guess.
Although in the light of this book, I really don't think leaving Lily out of the "Snape's worst memory" scene in the Order of the Phoenix film was a very smart thing to do.
I'm still in two minds regarding what I feel about it... I think overall, I'd rate it as good, but I'm not entirely sure. It had plenty of stuff in it that I didn't care too much about... and I've read better written fanfics than this (with a lot of the same stuff in them, apart from the whole Dumbledore/Grindelwald storyline).
It had weird plot holes, questionable things any decent editor ought to have noticed (Hermione modifying the memories of her parents to a massive extent and then saying about two pages later that she's never tried a memory charm? huh? did she perform a Confundus charm on herself in the meantime?), and the whole wand ownership stuff was a bit rubbish IMHO... and the epilogue was cheese of the most major sort (and copied about 57 fanfics I've read), and I kept hoping Ron would die or something, so that Hermione wouldn't have to end up with him... but on the other hand, I couldn't put the book down for the seven or so hours that it took me to read it (my back is killing me!) and I did enjoy a lot of it.
And Snape's the romantic, brave, noble hero!! Who got a very lousy and pointless death (well, it was still better than the one Lupin and Tonks got - I mean, huh?), true, but on the other hand, with no mention of what happened to his body and no portrait turning up in the headmaster's room, I can pretend he didn't really die, I guess.
Although in the light of this book, I really don't think leaving Lily out of the "Snape's worst memory" scene in the Order of the Phoenix film was a very smart thing to do.