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intjosh 's review for:
James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
by G. Norman Lippert
Brings you back into Potter world so you forget it's not Rowling. So that's good.
Some descriptions are better than Rowling, so you better understand what things actually look like in Potterworld, so you feel more like you're walking around there. It's the difference bw watching an animated GIF (Lippert) and a GIF (Rowling). Rowling dumped a ton of ideas into her world, that made it clever, so you think "oh, the eatery has an enchanted ceiling, cool idea"; Lippert describes the ceiling in such a way that you see it and understand it better in action. Dimly, I mean, not like you're really there, I mean he's just Lippert after all, not Mieville or Conrad.
I don't like how the Snape portrait talks. Not enough like Snape. I didn't like that he and Dumbledore portraits cdn't find a way to help James more. Various other plot holes, or more like character holes, things where the actions of the plot cd literally have happened, but the character prob wdn't have done it.
Some descriptions are better than Rowling, so you better understand what things actually look like in Potterworld, so you feel more like you're walking around there. It's the difference bw watching an animated GIF (Lippert) and a GIF (Rowling). Rowling dumped a ton of ideas into her world, that made it clever, so you think "oh, the eatery has an enchanted ceiling, cool idea"; Lippert describes the ceiling in such a way that you see it and understand it better in action. Dimly, I mean, not like you're really there, I mean he's just Lippert after all, not Mieville or Conrad.
I don't like how the Snape portrait talks. Not enough like Snape. I didn't like that he and Dumbledore portraits cdn't find a way to help James more. Various other plot holes, or more like character holes, things where the actions of the plot cd literally have happened, but the character prob wdn't have done it.