I admit I am disappointed with this episode.<\/p>\n
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(spoilers for chapter 96 below)<\/p>\n
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I love this chapter, I find it very emotionally compelling. But listening to it, it fails to evoke that same reaction, even on a smaller scale. This is where Harry discovers he\u2019s not alone in the world. Finally, a confirmation that there are others who understand death is to be rejected absolutely. At the grave of his parents, of all places. And the narration just\u2026 falls flat.<\/p>\n
After a couple listens I think I know why. Over the past dozen episodes or so I\u2019ve been drifting into more of an announcer-style of voice. As someone declaiming to an audience, perhaps. That has a distance to it which doesn\u2019t fit with fiction, at least not the more intimate scenes. I need to soften a bit, as if reading to a younger sibling before bed.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately there\u2019s not enough time left to re-do this episode. Chapters 97 and 98 are already (basically) completed as well, but the tone of those chapters is rather different (much of 98 is proclamations, literally), so I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll be re-doing those. But I think I can get 96 re-recorded within a couple weeks, so I\u2019ll be shooting for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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