Dan’s Reviews > Freedom And Not Peace > Status Update

I really like the way Connor has grown in this book, and I can’t get enough of him and Draco teaming up for Harry’s benefit.

Much of this story has come back to me as I’ve read—I remembered the ritual to free the southern goblins right before it happened, for example—but I must have blocked this Whitecheek thing out. Jesus Christ.

I wish we knew more about these corrupt rituals Voldemort likes to use. I never felt like we got a decent explanation for the justice ritual he used at the end of COoDM, which for me undercut the certainty of that ritual that had been so emphasized earlier in the story. I’d like an explanation for this corrupted truce dance too.

Glad Harry noticed kids of other Houses attending Walpurgis this year. Also I find this whole Dobby thing pretty silly

I keep expecting them to refer to Light or Dark as minhag.

I get Harry is an abused child going through it but Jesus Christ is this “nobody can love me because my soul is inherent garbage :’(“ shit obnoxious. Get over yourself

I forgot about this empathy thing but I love it. I like the concept of a magical heir but think it’s cheap that a person can double their power (or whatever) when their parent dies. Very glad Julia didn’t make Draco lord-level strong.

I would read a series that was exclusively following Rufus at the Ministry.

I get Draco is under compulsion, but it is so obnoxious of him to think Harry doesn’t care about his interests when Harry explicitly is trying to find out what’s up with his new book. That IS interest, idiot.

The first time I ever read the goblin/Evan Rosier scene, I had to stop in the middle because my family went out to get dinner and then go to Spirit, so every time I’m in a Spirit I think of Rosier spouting poetry on the hill. Glad the timing has worked out that I’m there at Halloweentime again.