Harry Potter 7 (HYOOGE SPOILER ALERT)

[Mindibun]

I didnt even think about the Teddy and Harry thing. Why DIDNT he go live with them? Anyway I hated the ending. I dont think Snape was good at all. He was acting selfishly the whole time - he wanted Lily safe and only because he had feelings for her. If he were really a good person he would have worried about Harry and James' well-being as well. He was still in league with Voldemort even if it wasnt whole-heartedly. A truly good person couldnt have done it at all. I never liked Snape much and never will, and although I've always known that he wasnt truly EVIL, he was never a good person.

I also disagree with the Harry-Ginny relationship. In the span of 7 years their relationship has been nothing more than a few kisses and sideways glances, and then ALL OF A SUDDEN, 19 years later they are married. It just bothers me (yes yes I know a lot could have happened in those 19 years but *I* dont know about it do I?) and the names of their kids? Dont even get me started... Lily and James, eh, ok... But "Albus Severus Potter"? That's such a ridiculous name, and Rowling went completely overboard on the 'naming after other characters' bit. >_<

Harry should have died. I would have cried my eyes out and hated it, but I felt that's how the book should have ended. He and Voldemort would have both died and the rest of the wizarding world would have returned to normal.

The two good things about the ending: I thought for sure Hagrid would die by the time the series was over and Rowling gave me a good scare when he got carried off by spiders, but in the end he didnt. Hagrid was my second fave character. I would have never forgiven her if he had died. And the second thing is that Neville is now proff. of herbology, and his character grew up so much. I adored him when he was younger and he just became this great character the more and more the years went on. (I loved his gran. -lol- I pictured her as this mad old woman running around with her huge hat stunning death eaters and yelling crazy things an old bat would say. It was comical. -lol-)

I apologize if this is confusing or wordy and not wordy enough. I just finished the book a few minutes ago. My brain is still digesting.


***Could someone please explain why Harry said that the rightful owner of the Elder wand was Draco Malfoy? Or did I read that wrong and he was talking about the wand he had stolen from Draco?***

[Shirkin]

***Could someone please explain why Harry said that the rightful owner of the Elder wand was Draco Malfoy? Or did I read that wrong and he was talking about the wand he had stolen from Draco?***

Because in the 6th book Draco took it from Dumbledore (from what I remember), therfore the wand changed masters to Draco, then Harry disarmed Draco and took the wand again, again changing masters.

[Gooseman]

***Could someone please explain why Harry said that the rightful owner of the Elder wand was Draco Malfoy? Or did I read that wrong and he was talking about the wand he had stolen from Draco?***

Malfoy disarmed Albus, Snape only performed an execution. Snape did not EARN the wand, Draco did, even if he didn't follw through.

[Mindibun]

Ok, thanks. I dont remember that part but I'll take your word for it. I siriusly need to go back and re-read all the books (pun intended haha)

[Purrrfect9]

lol nice. but ya. Overall I guess I am pleased with the book. I finished it around 5 in the morning on Sunday, and i barely even remember Mrs. Weasley killing Bellatrix ( who was my favorite villan in the series. The crazy people always tend to be the best bad guys). I'm still not 100% convinced that Snape was ever really 'good'. If he knew that Lilly would be alive in the end, I'm sure he would have let everyone else burn in hell -.-... the jerk.

[Binx]

Meh, Deahtly Hallows left me feeling very unfufilled. There was so much that J.K said was going to be in this book that wasn't (for instance, she said that they'd return to the Department of Mysteries and we'd find out what the veil was, the Flying Ford would return, a non magical person would perform magic, etc.).

There were so many errors in DH, too. Like for instance on page 80 something Hermione talks about her putting a memory charm on her parents but then on page 100 and something when they're in the cafe with the Death Eaters (who are disgused as servers, which makes NO SENSE) Ron says something about modifying their memories to make then not remember they were there. He says he's never done a memory charm and Hermione says something along the lines of, "Neither have I, but I know the theory." Um... wth? That was a careless error. Also, Hermione's middle name is Jane. In DH it's changed to Jean. How did Aberforth get the mirror? There are so many things that weren't explained. The whole book felt unbelivalby rushed to me. *sigh*

I got my copy at the midnight release at Barnes and Nobel and made the front page.
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I give the book three out of five. It could have been SO MUCH better. Oh well. There's still the Encyclopedia that's comming out.

[slartibartfast]

One quibble..the Death Eaters in the cafe were patrons, not servers. They came in and sat down right after Harry said the V-word.

[cassandra]

Finished this afternoon (British adult version - i.e., original words and spelling plus better cover art). My thoughts:

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My plot hole problem (and maybe I missed it, so help me out here):

Harry et. al promise the Godric sword to Griphook (or whatever his name is, the goblin) if he helps them break into Gringots and into the Lestrange vault, with the plan on not actually giving him the sword until they are done destroying the horcruxes.

But in the usual melee that ensures Harry doing anything, Griphook gets the sword while Harry et. al get the cup and escape.

Laaater...

Neville whips out the Godric sword and slices off Nagini's head....


Um...how did Neville get the sword? Did I skim over something or is this a massive gaff?

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If you didn't see Harry ending up with Ginny, you were blind. The symmetry of Harry + Ginny and Ron + Hermoine as a tight knit unit was pretty obvious to me since book 3.

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Why didn't Teddy Lupin go live with Harry and Ginny? Because his grandmother is still alive...think Neville and his gran.

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I wasn't much sad at who died in book 7, but the killing off of Sirius in book 5 hardended me to J.K.'s killing off of main characters...I was more concerned about George than Lupin/Tonks. Besides, Lupin had to die...he was the last of the mauraders (J. Potter, Petegrew, Lupin, Black). J.K. is rock solid (and in my opinion, boring) about symmetry.

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In general, I'm disappointed as well with the book. I've become quite disenchanted over the past several books as I don't think J.K. can write her way out of a brown paper bag, but I was still hooked by the story. The monologuing all of a sudeent at the end (Aberforth and Dumbledore) was LAME...and the ending...*sigh*. Whatever, I have an ending and I can move back to better literature.