And the Potterstakes Chosen One Is....

Published 23 July 07 09:03 AM

I'm just going to ramble a bit so that any implied SPOILERS end up below the preview feed thingy on the main page, and so I will note that my devotion to the Harry Potter cause can be measured by the fact that I went to Whitfords on a Saturday morning to get it. The good thing about Whitfords being, of course, that one doesn't have to get out of one's round-the-house bogan clothes to go there: the downside is that I can't kill stupid-don't-know-how-a-carpark-works and incapable -of-walking-50-metres people with my brain.

 

I think that should be safe now. Sanna, you are the Potterstakes winner! Inform me of your choice of chocolate and I'll get it to you soon. 

by Karen.Hall
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# Sanna said on July 23, 2007 10:42 AM:

Sigh. I would have been quite happy not to win this. But, life must go on. Ferrero Rocher. :-)

p.s. How much did that epilogue suck?

# Tama said on July 23, 2007 11:32 AM:

That's why you shouldn't write epilogues (or conclusions) before you finish the first book (or chapter)!  

When your writing style improves and then you end with the "style" you had at day 1, it kinda sucks liberated house-elf togas!

# Karen.Hall said on July 23, 2007 12:02 PM:

Righty-o - Ferrero Rocher it is!

I think my sister summed up the epilogue quite nicely - "If I wanted a trashy romance ending, I would have read one of those." (Trashy romance ending, for those who aren't into extreme low culture, equals pairing up and breeding, usually with sproglets who resemble their parents to a nauseating degree.)

I then went into a rant about how two generations of war-trauma and dead parents should have resulted in characters who were a little less suburbia about parenting, but her point stands.

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About Karen.Hall

I've recently submitted my PhD thesis, titled 'Discovering the Lost Race Story: Writing Science Fiction, Writing Temporality', for examination. In the meantime, I'm teaching in the discipline of Communication Studies at UWA and starting a new project on medievalism and media through a Whitfeld Fellowship.