I felt that this book was mostly build up, although it was due to necessity really, to set the scene for the Horcrux hunting in the final book. This and Deathly Hallows felt as if they were two parts of one novel, rather than two episodes that could stand alone by themselves, something all the other books could reasonably do. I also felt that the film actually did a better job of conveying Malfoy’s isolation, that he had a job to do, and his increasing desperation. The film also made it obvious that Snape isn’t a bad guy. That is a bad thing. Anyway, stop moaning about the films.
The transformation in Kreacher was delightful – just goes to show that Hermoine’s S.P.E.W. was slightly erroneous. House-elves do love caring for their masters, especially if their masters show them a little love. The various jaunts into Tom Riddle’s past were quite interesting, and shed a fair bit of light on why he is like he is, even before Harry persuaded Horace Slughorn to bequeath the final memory concerning the Horcruxes. I liked when the mouth organ was just a mouth organ, but Harry was clearly thinking along the right tracks.
This book features one of my favourite passages:
The Muggle Prime Minister: ‘But for heaven’s sake – you’re wizards! You can do magic! Surely you can sort out – well – anything!‘
Cornelius Fudge: ‘The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister’
I feel like you’ve got that house-elf name wrong, but I can’t put my finger on what it should be. I’ll doubtless check Wikipedia shortly, but feel I should allow you to stew on it for a while to think about what you’ve done 😉
Moments later… Oh, I think I’ve got it. Understandable, but it didn’t half change the way I read it in your comments from how I pictured the word.
I’ve read all of your Harry Potter entries up to this book. Pretty good. I doubt I’ll ever read the books. I suppose I may listen to them one day, on some big journey. I thought you might have written more, given the length you go into talking about Devil May Cry and Phantasy Star. I hope you’ll take that as a compliment that I would have welcomed more of your writing.
Blimey, yeah, it’s Kreacher. How did I do that? Well done for knowing the correct spelling even though you’ve only seen the flick – it’d be easy to spell it Kreature (or even creature) if you only had people saying the name as reference.
All these posts were originally going to be one long post, so I had to keep them quite short otherwise it would have been a truly massive post. Some of them (Goblet of Fire, Prisoner of Azkaban, Deathly Hallows) I would’ve liked to have written more, maybe I’ll add stuff into them one day.
Thanks for liking my writing, I do love a good compliment!
Thanks also for commenting, I do love a good comment!