it takes me a while to get critical about stuff that at least moderately entertains me, so it wasn't until later that I really started to get annoyed by the series.
I hear ya there. I often take quite a while to decide if I've even LIKED something.
I GUESS Hermione wasn't taught "Alohomora" in class, but that does seem like a pretty weak defense to even HAVE the spell. You'd think there'd be a lock that could counter it. And the teaching style was definitely old-school British boarding school "shut up and learn" style, which seems ineffective. I have to admit, I started wondering what the point of a wizard school was if magic was so ... random.
I remember Ginny being pretty cool, but I have to say that Neville is my favorite. He was the most interesting character and I actually LIKED him.
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I hear ya there. I often take quite a while to decide if I've even LIKED something.
I GUESS Hermione wasn't taught "Alohomora" in class, but that does seem like a pretty weak defense to even HAVE the spell. You'd think there'd be a lock that could counter it. And the teaching style was definitely old-school British boarding school "shut up and learn" style, which seems ineffective. I have to admit, I started wondering what the point of a wizard school was if magic was so ... random.
I remember Ginny being pretty cool, but I have to say that Neville is my favorite. He was the most interesting character and I actually LIKED him.