Chapter 29 - Am I alone in considering this the worst chapter yet (that is, <=29)?
The hacked in “Bill is schizophrenic” was unpleasant. Sure EY wanted to force in a ‘conspiracy theory’ lesson, but I still just found it distasteful. The remainder of the chapter was just uninspiring and did nothing but reinforce my growing impression that Harry doesn’t have what it takes to become an ultimate “Universe Optimising” power. I don’t think all of this is due to ‘still needs to learn lessons’ considerations either.
Ick. I’m going to read the next couple of chapters. Most of the recent comments here have focussed on the the 30,31 chapters so I’m hoping 29 was just an unremarkable interlude.
The hacked in “Bill is schizophrenic” was unpleasant.
I’m still a little unsure about this. It’s writing off the canon plot as a conspiracy theory, but Eliezer surely knows that sometimes conspiracies are correct (a few are stranger than fiction; besides the well known Gulf of Tonkin, there’s also Operation Gladio or Propaganda Due) and that they really are out to get you. Cryonics, for example has been written off as a conspiracy theory by some.
And from a writer’s perspective, it rearranges a lot of characters. Aside from Pettigrew now being dead as he’s supposed to be, Sirius is now stuck in Azkaban, Bill is AWOL at Mungo’s, and Remus has much less motivation to come in. My hope is that Eliezer actually has a different conspiracy cooked up which will use those characters, and it’ll be a lesson in ‘following the hard evidence no matter how silly/low-status/conspiratorial outsiders consider the theory’ (with obvious relevance to cryonics).
Chapter 29 - Am I alone in considering this the worst chapter yet (that is, <=29)?
The hacked in “Bill is schizophrenic” was unpleasant. Sure EY wanted to force in a ‘conspiracy theory’ lesson, but I still just found it distasteful. The remainder of the chapter was just uninspiring and did nothing but reinforce my growing impression that Harry doesn’t have what it takes to become an ultimate “Universe Optimising” power. I don’t think all of this is due to ‘still needs to learn lessons’ considerations either.
Ick. I’m going to read the next couple of chapters. Most of the recent comments here have focussed on the the 30,31 chapters so I’m hoping 29 was just an unremarkable interlude.
:) And I have just given chapter 30 the rating of best chapter so far. And given that I loved the early ones that is high praise!
I particularly liked the part where Draco and Potter both concluded Quirrel was on the side of ‘good’.
I’m still a little unsure about this. It’s writing off the canon plot as a conspiracy theory, but Eliezer surely knows that sometimes conspiracies are correct (a few are stranger than fiction; besides the well known Gulf of Tonkin, there’s also Operation Gladio or Propaganda Due) and that they really are out to get you. Cryonics, for example has been written off as a conspiracy theory by some.
And from a writer’s perspective, it rearranges a lot of characters. Aside from Pettigrew now being dead as he’s supposed to be, Sirius is now stuck in Azkaban, Bill is AWOL at Mungo’s, and Remus has much less motivation to come in. My hope is that Eliezer actually has a different conspiracy cooked up which will use those characters, and it’ll be a lesson in ‘following the hard evidence no matter how silly/low-status/conspiratorial outsiders consider the theory’ (with obvious relevance to cryonics).