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Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows (w/Spoilers)
Faker:
Well finished it last night and have to say it is probably one of the best of the series, maybe even the best. I agree with lots of people in that the epilogue was a bit too “happy ever after” for my liking but at the same time I understand that it was pretty much necessary.
Don’t agree with the Hedwig’s death was pointless argument, I think it gave a good sense that no character, no matter how major or minor, was safe over the course of what would follow.
I liked Snape’s redemption although part of me did want him to be evil, if only to show that Dumbledore could get some things wrong.
Other moments I liked were little things like Harry finding the picture of himself as a toddler zipping around on a toy broomstick, and the Mrs Weasley / Bellatrix moment, soon as I read THAT piece of dialogue my mind went straight to Ripley in Aliens!
As for tear jerking moments, obviously I’m too much of a bloody bloke to cry at a book but came close during Harry’s walk to the Forbidden Forest when his parents and Sirius’s “ghosts” are talking to him.
0bsessions:
--- Quote from: axerton on 23 Jul 2007, 17:03 ---All she said was that there would be a late bloomer and I think that was Neville really stepping up to take over the DA, then killing Nagini.
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Actually, I found it and it was most definitely about someone using magic quite late in life. Allegedly, though, this quote may have come before Half-Blood Prince, so it could have been referring to Merope Gaunt.
--- Quote from: Faker on 24 Jul 2007, 01:25 ---I liked Snape’s redemption although part of me did want him to be evil, if only to show that Dumbledore could get some things wrong.
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Well, to be fair, we did get that idea. He was wrong about Grindelwald, if you recall. All in all, Dumbledore turned out to be kind of a prick.
pilsner:
Not to mention the whole "HAI AN EVIL ARTIFACT I WILL USE IT TO RESSURECT MY DEAD SISTER OH NOES I AM DYING" thing. You can't get quite more fallible than using the repository of your arch-enemy's split soul to try to bring back the sister you were partially responsible for killing. My favorite parts of the book were the revelations that Dumbledore was quite mistaken and far from blameless, and that Snape had probably suffered more than most to protect the students and bring down Voldemort. Even if he was arguably doing it for the wrong reasons.
I am confident that Rowling's main motivation for that epilogue was to prevent other authors from adding books to the series later on. She said pretty explicitly in interviews that she would do her best to prevent this from happening (probably thinking of Tolkein and Herbert) and frankly aside from killing off every major character or stating point blank "and so nothing interesting happened to anyone you care about in this story ever again", I don't see what else she could have done.
Not that this was stop an enterprising author from writing the "Albus Severus vs. Draco's kid" sequel where Albus has the invisibility cloak and Draco has a converted muggle gun that shoots fiendfire, but whatever.
Also: Harry with two wands after the duel against Voldemort? Pimpin'
Storm Rider:
Anybody else get a really creepy stalker-ish vibe when Luna had the huge portraits of the Gryffindor kids with the word 'friends' repeated over and over?
TrekkieTechie:
Aw, I thought it was sad. Like, poor Luna has some friends now.
Of course, now whenever I read that passage, I will. Thanks so much.
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