I quit reading the HP books after Azkaban (I did go to all the movies but that's an entirely different kettle of fish - and I have to say that movie #6 dragged SO ABYSMALLY that I was in two minds about the finale - and in the end, well, there's only the one movie left so I'll go see it yanno. But from what I HEARD about the later HP books, particularly #5, #6 and #7 (i.e. the ones where ROwlings was already rich and famous and Didn't Need An Editor Any More, You Know), they got more and more bloated and indulgent and rambling as they went on - and WHAT was she thinking when she wrote that silly little epilogue with the Begats? (Albus Potter? REALLY? Middle name maybe but who names a child this and expects him to survive a playground?)
I never did get around to the Percy books. Too much else in the queue. Sounds like they need to be looked at though.
As for girls in HP - well - it was Jane Yolen's comment that she didn't like the way girls were treated in Harry Potter's world (wayyyy back in 2002, at that year's world fantasy con) that inspired me to write my own WOrldweavers series. YES, with a girl at the helm of the adventure, dammit. Yes we can!
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Date: 2011-03-05 07:20 pm (UTC)I never did get around to the Percy books. Too much else in the queue. Sounds like they need to be looked at though.
As for girls in HP - well - it was Jane Yolen's comment that she didn't like the way girls were treated in Harry Potter's world (wayyyy back in 2002, at that year's world fantasy con) that inspired me to write my own WOrldweavers series. YES, with a girl at the helm of the adventure, dammit. Yes we can!