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diff --git a/faith/too_long.rst b/faith/too_long.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 9657228..0000000 --- a/faith/too_long.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,73 +0,0 @@ -Drawn too long -############## - -:date: 2020-01-04T10:31:09 -:category: faith -:tags: review, harryPotter - -(Major spoilers follow, I am sorry, but I cannot explain my -opinion on the story without revealing most of the plot; if you -haven’t read the story, finish it first.) - -I have followed `To All the Wizards I’ve Considered Before by -FullofWrackspurts`_ first with excitement. It seemed like -refreshingly “normal” story different from the pervasive cliches -of most Harmony or Romione stories. Hermione which is as confused -by the intricacies of love as we all are, who is not -a super-heroine, not super-confident, and … well, the word is -“normal”. - -It starts as a classical comedy of errors: letters are sent to -number of Hermione’s male classmates making an impression that -they are some kind of her love letters to them. Farcical -dialogues with those affected happen and in the end, she agrees -with Dean to pretend to be dating so that they may evoke jealousy -in Ginny and Ron, and persuade them to renew (or ignite) romantic -relationship. Obviously what follows is that the pretended -relationship between Hermione and Dean starts to change into -something real and both of them are too bound by the pretence to -reveal their true feelings to each other. So far so good, -certainly not worse than three quarters of all successful -Hollywood romantic comedies. - -The obvious problem is the end game. Whole charade about purely -contractual and pretence nature of their relationship started to -break down around the Christmas, when Hermione visited her -“boyfriend’s” family, and all Dean’s siblings are quite not -believing their pretence. Since that moment, the clocks started -ticking for some final showdown to happen. Two chapters or so of -them resolving their problem and it would be a sweet romcom. - -Unfortunately, that is the sixth chapter of the story, and it -seems like just half of the story (in case the chapter fourteen -is the last one). I guess, the author read somewhere in one of -those “How to write a novel” guides on the Internet (or perhaps -even in a book), that unresolved tension can keep readers -attention for longer time, so she went with it. The problem with -this advice is in my opinion, that it can keep such attention -just for so long and it creates a debt to the readers. Longer you -keep their attention with this artificial gimmick, bigger return -on their investment they expect. With more than half of the story -spent on observing how our two heroes behave like idiots, we -expect something super profound to happen. May in the end the -author go AU and Dean returning to Ginny letting Hermione hang -out dry with the morale being “If you don’t snap them, they may -go away forever”? Will they agree to be together and go for -liberation of house-elves together (or whatever, Dean with his -Black American heritage may have an unique opinion on that)? Will -be there some super dramatic scene with for example Dean being -seriously hurt after The Battle of the Astronomy Tower (kind of -equivalent of the Bill-Fleur scene, or perhaps really dying)? - -The result was that the author haven’t managed to do anything. In -the chapter sixteen our heroes kiss (again, the previous tease -was completely useless in the story development) and they still -haven’t said a word about the nature of their relationship. -Perhaps it is assumed they are boyfriend/girlfriend now, but it -seems like after the betrayal of our expectations the author has -left us hang out dry on the top of everything else. - -After so perfect start the end is a huge disappointment. - -.. _`To All the Wizards I’ve Considered Before by FullofWrackspurts`: - https://archiveofourown.org/works/17777138 |