Originally Posted by Andikki
Can't believe the amount of Potter sympathisers in the world.
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Fixed that for you.
To clarify my previous comments, my problem is that the clinch pin in every Rowling plot revolves around some newly-introduced MacGuffin.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MacGuffin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin
While not MacGuffins in the literal sense (usual), every HP book fabricates some virtually meaningless item or items to further the story. The first one is especially bad at this. Yes, we know what the Philosopher's Stone does and why we need to keep it away from that mean old wizard, but it's still just a chase for something that really has no bearing on the plot other than
it is the plot. And every book does it in some form or another. I'm not saying dear old Jay Kay (not the vocalist from Jamiroquai) doesn't at least find inventive ways to implement all these artifacts, it's just that it gets really, really old. And the last book just blows it all out of proportion by introducing not one, but
ten objects that the protagonists have to capture (though they did get a few in previous installments - but it doesn't matter from a literary standpoint since they didn't know it until the 7th book/last pages of the sixth). It's like goddamned Pokemon.
To her credit though, Harry Potter definitely is more about the ride getting there than the actual storyline, which she designed admirably.