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not asking for spoilers but just wanted to let you know I am SO excited to see whether you'll be including any aspect of the golden trio's van life™ treasure hunting in the woods segment of DH in your story. I know you've talked about how silly and irrelevant it is for them to be off and away from all the other characters and action for so much of the last book, so I'm looking forward to seeing the changes you make and what kinds of new experiences they'll have if they remain more tethered to the plot. but c'mon. neverending geocashing group camping trip from hell. it's kind of hilarious.

RV TRIP DEATHLY HALLOWS they will never make me love you RV trip deathly hallows... tho you are right and I fully grant it is the funniest thing that book could have done... it's like. The Two Towers if you're reading Sam and Frodo's trip to Mordor and you don't know what fuck all else is going on while they're doing it. And also none of the stuff with Aragorn or the actual war for the ring is on the page. And there are Hallows there, for some reason.

#greenteacup asks #mmmiGUESS there's a thing in there somewhere about like. the temptations of power #like literally quite literally trying to do a One Ring thing #but then like. we dont see the hallows do SHIT #and she gives the corruption debuff to the HORCRUXES #which don't even give you a power boost! so what's the POINT #and because horcruxes are established as the Supreme Mega Evil harry can't be tempted by them #that you need to do [redacted superdark emogoth crimes] in order to make #which harry never even learns the method for so it's moot anyway #and like it's not a plot problem that we don't know how to make them yknow?#but it does feel like a big gap in the worldbuilding because you had the opportunity #to say something about the nature of evil. like literally the darkest thing you have in your books - you aren't interested in that?#tolkien was so interested in that he wrote a whole gospel about the origin story!#dog there's so much in deathly hallows that feels like a first draft #like there are Ideas here. about power and corruption and so forth. but we never actually get to bite them #because we spend 9/10ths of the book on a FUCKING CAMPING TRIP

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