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+Another comments on the Accidental Animagus & al.
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+:date: 2020-04-07T09:39:17
+:category: faith
+:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit
+
+(my comments on `the thread`_ “What are your thoughts on the
+direction taken by 'Animagus at War' by White Squirrel?” by
+`u/SnobbishWizard`_)
+
+.. _`the thread`:
+    https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/fwbih3/what_are_your_thoughts_on_the_direction_taken_by/fmnxfqj/
+
+.. _`u/SnobbishWizard`:
+   https://www.reddit.com/user/SnobbishWizard/
+
+I have already (many many chapters ago) wrote `a review`_, which included my comments on this story, and so far I stand behind it.
+
+On top of that I have two comments:
+
+1. Bloody length of the story. JKR complained that HPOotP was
+   rushed to the publisher and it needed more editing, which made
+   it according to her too long. That’s 38 chapters. 38 times
+   7 is 266 chapters for the whole series as the longest case
+   scenario (the shortest scenario, seven times HPPS is 119
+   chapters, and we are already over). Animagus saga currently
+   stands at 147 chapters, and it feels more like the basic setup
+   of the story than coming to its conclusion, so we may get to
+   that worst-case scenario eventually. In terms of the war, it
+   feels like we are at the Battle of Smolensk (that’s June 1941)
+   or at the Coral Sea (May 1942). The Battle of Stalingrad and
+   the Battle of Midway are far ahead of us in the dim future,
+   and nobody can even dream about Berlin or Hiroshima (not that
+   we should dream about that). To close the story down, there
+   will be either some horrible case of the Harry Potter *ex
+   machina*, throwing the Ring to the Mount Doom and swiping away
+   in one move all the armies of the Dark Lord including the
+   mighty Tower of the Barad-dûr. Or we should expect another
+   hundred chapters of this boring Goblin rebellion, and :code:`$DEITY`
+   have mercy on our souls! The author threatens us with another
+   thirty chapters, but I don’t feel like he can make it is in so
+   few without the story being incredibly rushed.
+
+2. Complete loss of the human element in the story. It is a very
+   similar problem to `Divided and Entwined by Starfox5`_. Not
+   that there would be not enough action: battle after battle
+   runs over the pages, in this case, all of them lost, in other
+   all of them won, but there are no humans in the story, and it
+   is as fun to read as the history textbook about the
+   Thirty-Years War (or the mentioned Goblin rebellion) or
+   minutes of business meetings (which some parts effectively
+   are). Lost are the stories about Harry Potter catching
+   a mouse, the last one which had at least some personal element
+   was The Boxing Day with the confused Muggle friends finding
+   themselves at Hogwarts, but that was sixteen chapters ago
+   (whole Philosopher’s Stone, the book which made JKR famous,
+   was seventeen chapters). When was the last time somebody said
+   something personal or whimsical? What is Luna doing? Hermione?
+   Did she kiss Neville or not yet (I honestly forgot)? We don’t
+   know and I am losing hope we will ever learn because we have
+   to read another long and boring chapter where some impersonal
+   armies fight with other impersonal armies somewhere who knows
+   where (even if it is in my Prague, where I live; thank you,
+   after `Mr and Mrs Percy Weasley by SingularOddities`_ and
+   `Hiding in Plain Sight by GinevrasChampion`_ only the third
+   case, where the author noticed that there are other cities in
+   Europe than Paris). And I don't even care which one is which
+   and which one loses.
+
+.. _`a review`:
+  {filename}aristotle-unities.rst
+
+.. _`Divided and Entwined by Starfox5`:
+   https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11910994
+
+.. _`Mr and Mrs Percy Weasley by SingularOddities`:
+   https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12373273
+
+.. _`Hiding in Plain Sight by GinevrasChampion`:
+   http://www.siye.co.uk/siye/viewstory.php?sid=130160