The Deathly Hallows (Mark Spoilers!)

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(SPOILER)Methinks Harry's christlike resurrection will piss off the Christian anti-witchraft movement even more..

(SPOILER) When JKR quotes the BIBLE in it? no wai man. And also she proved that it was good vs. evil just like everyone was saying all those years ago. You have good harry who refuses to be evil versus evil voldemort who refuses to be good! very black and white lol

I think you're being a bit naive about that. They don't care if it's a power struggle of good vs evil. Check out one of the ladies that's been rallying for years to get the books banned (in a Georgia town I think). She openly admits that she's not read them. She doesn't care if their contents have jack to do with good an evil. All she knows is "ZOMG TEH WTICHCRAFTZES!!! IT R TEH WERKZ OF SATAAN!!" These extremist types that rally against this are immune to logic and context.




Well I just finished it after an absolutely marathon reading session (that started a little before it was actually release... PDF ftw). I thoroughly enjoyed it, though for a while I though the deus ex machina was laughable. At least JK's d.e.m. is always explained out in a less fantastical way.

I enjoyed so many of the loose ends getting tied up, and appreciated those "holy crap!" moments where you realize that something from a past book that you thought was just random color in the story... ends up being of serious importance.

Example:
(SPOILER)The diadem... which he'd just glossed over before when he was in the room for hiding things... but it was mentioned nonetheless... and the fact that it was there just makes you go


One of the things I had predicted came true. Props to JK though. Throughout the whole book I was expecting it to come true, but the shadow of doubt crept over me more and more as I read... then near the point where it was revealed I was almost sad that it wasn't true... until then it was revealed that it was.

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(SPOILER)Severus being a good guy. I was certain before. Dumbledore trusted him and I figured they'd planned ahead. There was a ton of evidence for this and it's such an alarming plot twist that the person you've loathed for so long would be a good guy... that it just had to happen.

When Harry was chilling with Sev's thoughts in the Pensieve, I cried so hard when Snape made his patronus and I knew it was him. I was actually doing well on the tears until the Epilogue where one of Harry's children was Albus Severus.


All in all a good conclusion to the series. (SPOILER)I'm glad the epilogue looked so far into the future so as to potentially curtail the temptation to continue the series. I think that would only tarnish it.