And another thing...

[penfold_x]

This book was dark. I knew it had to be (particularly since I was convinced since day one that Dumbledore would die, most probably in this book), but I was still somewhat surprised. Yet, it had to be that way: the children reading the paper every morning to see if a friend or family had died, the death of other minor characters, the fear, the siding of the giants and the werewolves with Voldemort. Until now, Voldemort hasn't been very effective. We know, intellectually, that he terrorized wizarding Britian in the 70s, but that's not the same as reading that Amelia Bones and Emmeline Vance are dead, that Parvati and Padma were withdrawn from school, that Bill is horribly mauled. JKR did a very good job of bringing that sense of fear and gloom to the book. We need to feel that Voldemort is really evil in order to fully appriciate Harry's eventual triumph.

But, yes, it was dark. Reading the scene where Dumbledore and Harry cross the lake in the cave, I pictured how this would eventually be filmed. It's going to be a very scary movie; perhaps even R rated.

Comments

[jan-aq.livejournal.com]

When i was reading that scene I was thinking about all the children who actually made it that far into the book and if they would get nightmares from it. XO I think that the 6th movie will be PG13, it has to be otherwise they will loose a large part of their population of viewers.

But yeah. Freaky. Very freaky imagining what it would be like on the big screne.

[penfold-x.livejournal.com]

You're probably right about the movie rating. But I do hope that parents are being mindful of how much the books are "growing up" with Harry.