Harry Potter

[WhiteTiger89]

I have to agree with you on the Umbridge thing. And I agree that the people who died, mostly *ajkhjkashC-sdfijafjahO-ajfhjisL-dhjkfhL-sdfasdiofI-sdgfasdhuN-* (look at the words in caps tho find out who, if you havent read the book, then dont try to decipher) Deserved better. However, I do not agree with you in that it wasnt heartfelt enough. Most of the deaths you see clearly, and those you dont are still powerful enough to cause emotion.

Well to be fair, I probably need to read the book again. I was just really put off that major characters feel like they're dropping off like flies.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Well, she did warn the readers that there would be a lot of deaths. And you have to remember that not all the major characters get killed, and a certain couple of the deaths I believe were done the way they were because there's more of an impact to another person (both people I'm talking about had someone extremely close to them in one way or another; I know everyone has people they're close to, but these two are different slightly) associated with them. (I'd say which ones I mean but I don't want to ruin anything for anybody.)
I pretty much cried for every one of them, even the ones where the scene moves around to people looking at the dead body and you didn't actually "see" them die.
That's just me though because I cry over books easily, especially with ones like these where I got so connected to the characters then bam! they're dead.

[L. Jay Echoes]

I went from detesting it to loving it to resenting it to being "meh" about it to waiting 10 years to read the last book to thinking, "Hey, Deathly Hallows is actually much better than the movies!"

Yes, while not my all-time favorite book series, my opinion of them is considerably high. I'd like to reread "The Science of Harry Potter," more closely than I did the first time. I also ought to take another look at Fantastical Beasts and Where to Find Them, which was originally a field guide with annotations by Harry, Ron and Hermoine.

Although I do think its influence on other authors was awful. After it was published, several people thought school dramas were the way to go. R. L. Stine tried to cash-in by writing a gross-out themed school drama series called "Rotten School." Some guy with the pen name Derek the Ghost wrote a horror-themed series called "Scary School." It's like they read Harry Potter, got jealous, then started playing Mad Libs with the content.

[Athlaros]

Medium fan, definitely not a diehard fan.