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Full chapters without a single illustration
I am sooo disappointed. I absolutely love the illustrations when the pages actually have illustrations. There are numerous chapters with only 1-2 small illustrations, throughout the entire chapter. There is at least three chapters (The Egg and the Eye, The Parting of the ways, Mayhem at the Ministry) where there isn’t a single illustration other than the boarder on the chapter title page. The pages aren’t even embellished (see photo).
Some examples per chapter-
The Yule ball: 1 illustration
The Third Task: 2 illustrations, 1 embellished page
Rita Skeeter’s Scoop : 1 illustration
The unexpected Task: 1 full 1 small illustration
The Four Champions: 1 medium illustration
The Goblet of Fire: 1 full 2 small portrait illustrations
The Unforgivable Curses: 1 small illustration 2 embellished pages
The Triwizard Tournament: 1 small illustration
The Pensieve: 1 small illustration 1 embellished page.
Veritaserum: 1 illustration
The Madness of Mr. Crouch
Padfoot returns: 1 very small illustration 1 duplicate illustration (from earlier in the book)
Those are for an entire chapter!
At one point there are •20• blank pages in a row!
Also a lot of the end of chapters are just entirely wasted space. So it isn’t because they didn’t have the room. There first 1/5 of this book is a bit more consistent with the first couple of books but the illustrations become very few and way too far between.
October 2019 · Books · verified purchase