{"id":218,"date":"2007-07-28T11:14:11","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T18:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=218"},"modified":"2007-07-28T19:41:08","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T02:41:08","slug":"harry-potter-and-the-total-absence-of-spoliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter and the Total Absence of Spoilers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate spoilers so there will be none of that. However, with it being an particularly busy week and a half at the magazine, I&#8217;ve only just now stayed up until nearly 5am reading <em>Deathly Hallows<\/em> and it&#8217;s been on my mind a lot. I know many of you have busy lives too and may still be savoring your way through the final book, so none of my reactions, I absolutely assure you, give anything away or should color your interpretation in any way.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I liked it. It is a different book than the other six, but it sort of had to be. It&#8217;s the end, yes?<\/li>\n<li>As Rowling promised, yes, there are deaths, and yes, you will cry. Well, I did.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Campbell\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Campbell<\/a> would be proud.<\/li>\n<li>There was literally one line of dialogue I didn&#8217;t agree with. An established personality says something that struck me as very out of character. It was a curious choice of words and my only regret reading the book, the only time I got pulled out.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike George Lucas, J.K. Rowling respects her own material and the audience that became obsessed with it. I&#8217;m sure some story elements gained importance to her over time, and ideas worked their ways in, like &#8220;Hey, this thing I&#8217;ve already said could support this new thing&#8221; &#8212; but it&#8217;s clear that, at some point early on, she sat down and said &#8220;Right, this is how things will play out.&#8221; (She actually said in an interview that it was 1990.) As such it was a very satisfying read, even if I did have to ask Kat &#8220;Who is this?&#8221; or &#8220;When did such and such happen?&#8221; because I am dim. The continuity itself is a huge achievement.<\/li>\n<li>It almost makes me want to have kids so I can force them to learn to read.<\/li>\n<li>I said &#8220;almost.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate spoilers so there will be none of that. However, with it being an particularly busy week and a half at the magazine, I&#8217;ve only just now stayed up until nearly 5am reading Deathly Hallows and it&#8217;s been on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=218\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}