Don't feel guilty! If we all thought exactly alike on everything it would be very boring after a while! And I can see the argument that you make. I don't agree wholeheartedly with that reading, but I do think it's a valid reading.
I DO wholeheartedly agree that Sarah constructed better relationships between all the characters. My great disappointment in DH (and J's, too, when he read it) was that there was never any resolution with the Slytherins. That felt so unbalanced to me, and threw the last third of the book off on both my first and second reads. Sarah's interpretation was SO much more satisfying on that note!
And I agree that the ending felt a bit rushed and scrabbled. I think it was just the standard too many plates in the air problem that besets many writers. DDG has only a small tea service, not an entire dinner setting, so it should be fine ;-)
Re: I'm with you on this
I DO wholeheartedly agree that Sarah constructed better relationships between all the characters. My great disappointment in DH (and J's, too, when he read it) was that there was never any resolution with the Slytherins. That felt so unbalanced to me, and threw the last third of the book off on both my first and second reads. Sarah's interpretation was SO much more satisfying on that note!
And I agree that the ending felt a bit rushed and scrabbled. I think it was just the standard too many plates in the air problem that besets many writers. DDG has only a small tea service, not an entire dinner setting, so it should be fine ;-)
I think that is a BRILLIANT rule of thumb, BTW.