by mega raptor » Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:58 am
On the contrary, the ambiguity is meant to be there, and it makes it better. And the 5th and 6th books do have a main plot, a "mission" as you put it: The goal of the fifth is varied, but revovles around stopping Voldemort from gaining more power, while the sixth is about resitisting Voldemort now that he has gained even more power, e.g.: through finding the horcruxes. Just becuase you can't understand the purpose of the book doesn't mean it's bad.
And the point of book 3 was not finding out Harry has a Godfather, nor was book 2 meant to show that Hogwarts had a Basalisk living in it: they were meant to develope the plot and setting more, while also showing Voldemort is returning to power.
It's you and me against the world. We attack at dawn.
This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but with a whimper. - T.S. Eliot