Alright everyone. It's time to leave your review of HBP. Since we've discussed all of the books, feel free to include your assessment of the entire series. Predictions of what you think will happen in HBP are, of course, encouraged.
As to book #7 ... I think the first half is clearly going to be a Horcrux Hunt with the Trio. I'd LOVE to think that Ginny is going to go along, or be helpful, but I fear not. If Ginny is, indeed, the 'perfect girl' for Harry (as JKR as said outside the book) and if that trite breakup scene was anything other than something taken straight from the Days of our Lives soap opera handbook then she MUST have had her fingers crossed behind her back when she agreed to let Harry go, and intends to tag along. But I fear not; I didn't see any anvil-sized clues in the text when they let each other go. Oh, God, I just realised ... it may be we won't see much of Ginny until the end, where our victorious hero claims the fair maiden as his hard-won prize, having vanquished the dark wizard! I hope and pray the ending of the series leaves us on an emotional high, rather than the puzzled bewilderment we experienced with the H/G in this book. That's if we're going to have a happy ending.
My gut feel is that Snape is on 'our' side; I'm just afraid JKR is going to try and be too clever in using him in setting up the final confrontation (the less Snape the better as far as I'm concerned). I hope she doesn't 'redeem' Draco - he tried to kill Dumbledore indirectly in HBP, almost killed two other students, and it was only cowardice, not conscience, which stopped him on the tower - but I'm afraid she might.
Thank you Cheering Charm and the other moderators for setting up this community. I didn't participate with the earlier books but it's been great fun following peoples' opinions of HBP. I've been fascinated in how much people can glean from the text and I've learnt a lot from their posts. For me this has been an intriguing step into cyber fandom. Thanks!
My gut feel is that Snape is on 'our' side; I'm just afraid JKR is going to try and be too clever in using him in setting up the final confrontation (the less Snape the better as far as I'm concerned). I hope she doesn't 'redeem' Draco - he tried to kill Dumbledore indirectly in HBP, almost killed two other students, and it was only cowardice, not conscience, which stopped him on the tower - but I'm afraid she might.
Thank you Cheering Charm and the other moderators for setting up this community. I didn't participate with the earlier books but it's been great fun following peoples' opinions of HBP. I've been fascinated in how much people can glean from the text and I've learnt a lot from their posts. For me this has been an intriguing step into cyber fandom. Thanks!
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