Harry basically defeats Voldemort by gaining the upper hand in a duel of expository speeches.
Yeah. I'm not sure how else the information could have been conveyed, since she hadn't particularly embedded the tracking of the Elder Wand in the text (so that it would have been unknown to Voldemort, but obvious to the reader), but I did notice there were about two straight chapters of conversation to make up the finale.
He is to my mind the series' most interesting character in much the same way that Gollum/Smeagol is the standout in Lord of the Rings.
He is definitely the character I kept reading for. And worth it, I think.
(consider by contrast Thomas Covenant in Donaldson's first trilogy, who rapes the woman who first befriends him in the Land, in part because he still believes the whole thing's a dream, and then has to deal with very realistic and grim consequences stemming from that act through all three books)
I actually couldn't stand The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, despite the Fisher King and Waste Land symbolism; I got through the first book on recommendations from friends and never went on to the rest. The writing absolutely did not work for me.
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Yeah. I'm not sure how else the information could have been conveyed, since she hadn't particularly embedded the tracking of the Elder Wand in the text (so that it would have been unknown to Voldemort, but obvious to the reader), but I did notice there were about two straight chapters of conversation to make up the finale.
He is to my mind the series' most interesting character in much the same way that Gollum/Smeagol is the standout in Lord of the Rings.
He is definitely the character I kept reading for. And worth it, I think.
(consider by contrast Thomas Covenant in Donaldson's first trilogy, who rapes the woman who first befriends him in the Land, in part because he still believes the whole thing's a dream, and then has to deal with very realistic and grim consequences stemming from that act through all three books)
I actually couldn't stand The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, despite the Fisher King and Waste Land symbolism; I got through the first book on recommendations from friends and never went on to the rest. The writing absolutely did not work for me.