Originally Posted by TurtleFu
But also, how is the treatment of the magical objects in the books any different than, say, the One Ring in Tolkien books?
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It's not. The One Ring is up there as one of the ultimate MacGuffins of all time. I don't have any problem with a MacGuffin being the central focus of a plot; it works all the time. But it gets pretty old when you write a seven-book series with a new number of them in each one. Tiring really. By the time I got to the last volume, I was just cocking my head going, "Really?," all the way through because it was so played-out and overused. And Deathly Hollows doesn't even have the fun school-happenings to distract you from the rehashed plot like the others do.
Don't get me wrong, I not some huge anti-Potter fanatic, and I think Rowling's writing style is charming enough. I just had some serious problems with the way the story was developed.