HP is pretty bubblegum, particularly when Rowling is writing badly and/or focusing on Harry Potter. There's a heart-of-darkness, though, about the background of the series that I really love -- what it means to be good human being, what it means to have had a lonely childhood, what it means to fear death, etc. I don't think that JKR realizes half of what she's doing with, at times, but her world delights me all the same. :D I am a sucker for witty invention.
And yeah. The military atmosphere is completely and utterly different. I was wrestling hard with the lack of it when I was trying to write the Hogwarts version of the Caudebec goodbye scene. And not having it there kind of eviscerates the wonderful, peculiar dynamic between HH and Bush. :|
I agree thatHH certainly wasn't a wonderchild while he was on land, but I think a certain kind of amazingness starts to show once he gets his feet under him in MMH. slowly, slowly, and in places where you really wouldn't expect it to, but there are some seeds of amazingness there -- when he punishes himself after his first command, when he returns to the Spanish prison in MMH, when he turns into the de facto captain of the mutineers in LtH.
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Date: 2006-10-07 08:55 pm (UTC)And yeah. The military atmosphere is completely and utterly different. I was wrestling hard with the lack of it when I was trying to write the Hogwarts version of the Caudebec goodbye scene. And not having it there kind of eviscerates the wonderful, peculiar dynamic between HH and Bush. :|
I agree thatHH certainly wasn't a wonderchild while he was on land, but I think a certain kind of amazingness starts to show once he gets his feet under him in MMH. slowly, slowly, and in places where you really wouldn't expect it to, but there are some seeds of amazingness there -- when he punishes himself after his first command, when he returns to the Spanish prison in MMH, when he turns into the de facto captain of the mutineers in LtH.