Honestly, I thought there was so much character evolution for both Snape and Draco in HBP, and I wanted that paid off, and for Draco, it wasn't, while for Snape the payoff was all posthumous.
I can so totally see your point, especially with Draco. Draco was a bit schizophrenic, vacillitating between I am a bad ass and will bring Harry Potter in alive to looking like a kid lost in a very violent and unexpected nightmare. I alternately loathed and pitied him. In the end, I think that he was supposed to act as the sign of Harry's greater morality. He was the thing that Harry forgave in place of Voldemort. It shows how he is like his mother, forgiving and accepting. Although, we do still get to see how much Harry is like his father, hot headed and self absorbed.
Lupin and Tonks are just part of a body count. We don't actually see their deaths. Which makes it almost meaningless.
Absolutely true! I felt sad that they died, but I was more affected by Fred's death and Colin Creevy. Colin because of what I remembered of him from the earlier books.
I hated the way Snape died. It seemed like an afterthought, passive.
Unfortunately, I think that may have been the point. That was the way that Voldemort treated things that he considered beneath his notice and I think that the whole "who owns the wand" thing was, to him, a minor miss step and he corrected it. It reminded me a great deal of Cedric's death. Totally unexpected and unneccessary. "Kill the spare."
But, I'm waiting too for the shine to wear off and for me to start discovering things I don't like. Overall, I am extremely happy with the book. Kind of on a cloud.
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I can so totally see your point, especially with Draco. Draco was a bit schizophrenic, vacillitating between I am a bad ass and will bring Harry Potter in alive to looking like a kid lost in a very violent and unexpected nightmare. I alternately loathed and pitied him. In the end, I think that he was supposed to act as the sign of Harry's greater morality. He was the thing that Harry forgave in place of Voldemort. It shows how he is like his mother, forgiving and accepting. Although, we do still get to see how much Harry is like his father, hot headed and self absorbed.
Lupin and Tonks are just part of a body count. We don't actually see their deaths. Which makes it almost meaningless.
Absolutely true! I felt sad that they died, but I was more affected by Fred's death and Colin Creevy. Colin because of what I remembered of him from the earlier books.
I hated the way Snape died. It seemed like an afterthought, passive.
Unfortunately, I think that may have been the point. That was the way that Voldemort treated things that he considered beneath his notice and I think that the whole "who owns the wand" thing was, to him, a minor miss step and he corrected it. It reminded me a great deal of Cedric's death. Totally unexpected and unneccessary. "Kill the spare."
But, I'm waiting too for the shine to wear off and for me to start discovering things I don't like. Overall, I am extremely happy with the book. Kind of on a cloud.