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diff --git a/literature/singularoddities-review-escape.rst b/literature/singularoddities-review-escape.rst index a4f2c42..2f38c72 100644 --- a/literature/singularoddities-review-escape.rst +++ b/literature/singularoddities-review-escape.rst @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ anywhere. Obviously, from person who writes fanfiction around the classical literature (namely “Pride and Prejudice”), I expect better literary quality than your average fifteen-year inserting herself as the fourth member of The Golden Trio on the run for -horcruxes. Unfortunately, with the contiuation of both stories, +horcruxes. Unfortunately, with the continuation of both stories, it seems to me that the author lapsed more and more into some of the worst stereotypes in the genre. @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ the trait, but it goes downhill pretty fast, and in the end Mrs Weasley, Arthur, and of course Ron are sworn enemies of the good guys and gals. And it is happily overlooked that many relational troubles which blow to their face in the end are caused by the -unexplicable relational idiocy of Harry & Hermione. Why in the +inexplicable relational idiocy of Harry & Hermione. Why in the world, they haven’t contacted Ron, their supposedly best friend, immediately after they got means of communications (mirrors) from the Weasley twins? I like the Weasley twins in the story, but why @@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ course, the only reason seems to be that the author may indulge more in the Ron-bashing (there is no way the Ron from books was not fed up with Lavender after few weeks of snogging; and actually, he broke up with her because he looked for more in -books, not necessarily because of Hermione; that is more the -movie Ron again). +books, not necessarily because of Hermione; that is more the film +Ron again). Harry and Hermione spent five years (or at least summers) in the Weasley household. And suddenly the Weasley parents don’t deserve @@ -73,12 +73,12 @@ books would slam the door in their face, I would immediately ship her to St. Mungo, because some serious disease must be affecting her brain. That is not Molly we know from the books. And I just cannot make myself believe that Weasleys’ would be that -prejudiced against Muggles. Ignorant, of course, but not -unwilling to be explained. +prejudiced against Muggles. Ignorant, of course, but not +unwilling to hear an explanation. When they are repeatedly accused they gave up on the wizarding world and went Muggle all the way, Harry & Hermione never face -these accussations by explaining what’s going on, by explaining +these accusations by explaining what’s going on, by explaining that they actually finished their magical education already, they don’t even boast how many N.E.W.T.s they got, they just blow up. They behave like rebellious stupid teenagers, who they actually @@ -89,8 +89,8 @@ and wise Grangers. We’ll get to this more later. Because next we have to deal with the persona of Albus Dumbledore as described in the stories. I am the last one to declare Professor Dumbledore to be perfect. There are obvious problems in -his behavior. Some of them mentioned by JKR in the books -themselves (excessive secrecty, insufficient information and +his behaviour. Some of them mentioned by JKR in the books +themselves (excessive secrecy, insufficient information and training), some are not. For example, there is a situation where absolutely everything depends on Harry learning Occlumency properly, and his teacher is not adult enough to get over Harry’s @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ results of such teaching. What does Dumbledore do to remedy the situation? Nothing, just waits until somebody gets killed and Harry can blame himself for it. What’s wrong with him? [#]_ I believe that both Professors Dumbledore and Snape are -reponsible for the death of Sirius Black (perhaps they should be +responsible for the death of Sirius Black (perhaps they should be even criminally responsible for neglect) more than anybody else on The Light Side (the biggest share of guilt goes to Mrs Lestrange, of course). |