(SPOILER)im in love with snape and i cwyed when he died it was sad!
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(SPOILER)im in love with snape and i cwyed when he died it was sad!
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For some reason unknown to myself, I was actually awake at 7:30 this morning, so I was able to do my usual "let's stroll into town and get a cheap copy somewhere without pre-ordering or losing sleep" trick. Morrisons opened at 8am and had it for £5. Can't complain.
(SPOILER)What surprised me most was that Harry himself was actually a Horcrux. I've heard that theory banded about a fair bit over the past two years or so and my impression was that people had generally dismissed it, given how difficult and inadvisable it is to make a living being a Horcrux. I did have a sneaking suspicion initially, but had actually not expected it in the book itself.
The Snape and Lily chapter towards the end was really quite nice, I thought. I think it really gave the reader a complete picture of Snape, finally settling over whether he was a villain or not. While I didn't expect something like that and was unsure what to make it of it initially, having thought about it I generally found it to be positive.
I read somewhere that someone thought the epilogue read like bad fanfiction and I'd really have to say that that appraisal isn't too far off in my opinion. I didn't like it it just didn't seem right to be honest. I was quite disappointed by the epilogue in all honesty. Perhaps it was a nice touch for some people, but I just found it to be a tad annoying and unnecessary.
One of my favourite bits were the scenes in the Ministry. I think that was nice firstly because it's always good to bring Umbridge in somewhere as well as showing the effects that the war was having on the general wizarding population. It's too easy sometimes to just show how an event changes the lives of the main characters showing only glimpses of how John and Joan Smith are dealing with the crisis that Britain is facing, whereas I think Rowling deliberately gave the 'general public' a lot of exposure to great effect.
What I did like about the book in particular was how some of the secondary and tertiary characters throughout the series were given more focus than before. Characters like Kreacher, Ollivander and Griphook in particular. I also got a laugh out of how frequently Dawlish was mentioned during the book. It was also quite nice that Rowling didn't shy away from a rather cliché 'but any characters that were named generally survived' result in the Battle of Hogwarts. The scenes at Hogwarts at the end were a rather fitting finale, I think. I'm unsure what I make of the chapter when Harry basically does what Ash did in the first Pokemon film, to be truthful. It was quite nice to have a link back to Dumbledore given how his image had been repeatedly tarnished through the book (which incidentally was another nice touch, I think).
Ultimately, the greatest tragedy of all was Dobby.
I generally enjoyed the book, I'm not quite sure how I'd compare it to the others, I guess I'll have to either re-read it or just generally think on it some more.
Last edited by Heath; 07-22-2007 at 12:57 AM.
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(SPOILER)Wasn't it because he expelliarmused him in the Malfoy mansion?Originally Posted by Kirobaito
Random thoughts!
(SPOILER)I didn't really like the beginning, with the escape from Privet Drive. Hedwig and Moody dead, George mutilated, and I thought Hagrid had snuffed it too. It was a bit "Holy smurf" to see characters I've known for years getting slaughtered.
I liked that Scrimgeour, despite being a full on twat, refused to sell Harry out even under torture. And hurray for Kreacher becoming a good guy!
Wasn't keen on the Harry and Hermione camping bonanza.
I had no idea Grindelwald even appeared in this book when I made my post about him in this thread, (obscure references ftw and all that) so I was kinda amused by the huge role he played, and by the fact that he was still alive.
Absolutely loved the Snape chapter. Even though before this book I, like everyone else, thought he would come good, after reading about him slicing George's ear off and such, and then his death with no heroic sacrifice, I was sure he was evil after all. Turns out I was wrong.
What in the whole of hell is with psycho powerful evil Crabbe?
Methinks Harry's christlike resurrection will piss off the Christian anti-witchraft movement even more...
Okay, so I have yet to read it, but this one girl posted a bulletin on myspace saying "OMG look at this" or something like that. I expected maybe a survey or that she has new pics or something, but no...a list of ALL THE THINGS IN THE BOOK THAT I WANTED TO KNOW MOST! Somehow I knew they were right, but to confirm, I asked a friend about (SPOILER)Mad Eye Moody's Death, one of the listed events, and she said that it did happen. THE GIRL EVEN LISTED WHAT PAGES THEY ALL HAPPENED ON!!!
I'm so mad at that girl now
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:yuck: :grr: :frust:
(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 purchased it this evening. Sitting around page 360 now.
I can't say I'm very impressed with this installment of the series - thus far.
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Got it at midnight, and I finished 10 minutes ago.
(SPOILER)I kind of wanted for Harry to don the title of headmaster of Hogwarts, but I knew he would much rather a quiet life, with his family. Seeing Harry become Death would of been kind of fun also.
I read it
I enjoyed it
I really haven't decided on whether I liked the actual turn out or not.
(SPOILER)For one thing it ended rather abruptly for me... yeah there was the "epilogue" but c'mon. So he kills voldy, they're all sitting around eating, he goes up the office to consult Dumble, then 19 years later? Sorry but that pretty much sucked to me. If she's gonna go the cheesy ending of having Harry live, at least give him is public make out session with Ginny after killing Voldy or something lol
honestly, that's the only thing that has urked me. I felt it was really well written and planned, how the tiny things from the early books made such a big difference. And then I further noticed all the tiny things have been in the movies, like the snitch being caught in his mouth.
Well planned out story, good writing, very easy read
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I got it but I have yet to even start reading it (resists urge to read spoilers). I'd better get to it...
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.(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
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.
Last edited by Yeargdribble; 07-22-2007 at 09:01 AM.
I just finished reading it.
It was ok. =/
And I hated the epilogue.
(SPOILER)Yes, the epilogue did suck a bit. It was very Epic Fanfictionny.
Snape should have had a headmaster portrait, even though he wasn't a Supah Headmastah.
I really want to know what happened to Krum, actually. Probably went off and played more quidditch.
It was good that she didn't make all the important characters survive, but I thought it was a bit contrived that Grawp fought off may full sized giants on his own. And noone seemed too upset about the awesomesauce Lupin and Tonks going.
Oh, and I actually really liked Scrimgeour. Even when he was being a twat, I thought he was a great character.
Finished reading it, it was amazing.
But the epilogue... *sighs*
When I first read it on a spoiler page, I thought that there was no way that this is the real thing, it was just too lame. I was hoping to get more information on what happened after the end, not just to Harry and co but in the wizarding world as a whole.
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