i'm finally ready.
after many moping hours today after ifinished the book last night, i'm ready to talk about it. i was completely taken off guard. i mean how COUULD jk ever do this to us? i mean i guess she has enough money that it doesn't matter whether or not she pleases readers, but still! i know she's proving the point that this is no kiddy lit any more and that this is a really serious 'war', but COME ON!!!!!!! everyone harry attatches himself to dies!!! and so now i'm preparing myself for what seems inevitable-ron's death in the 7th book. better to start preparing. i hate that the first four bks were so good and ended without tears at all. now it's tears all over the place. it's an amazing book, as they all are, but i'm just overwhelmeed with depression. maybe it's because i'm crazy and obsessed-i don't care what you ppl say though. i'm being comforted by the ljcommunity of hp6 (see my info and groups if you want to join!) it's helping quite a bit. i'm a freak to actually let a book run my life and my emotions, but hey. that's me and most of you know it anyways. i'm already rereading it to catch the things i missed. it will be hard when i restart the series again either soon or next summer. i will want to stop at book 4. it will be so hard to end again like this. as much as i am angry with jk right now, i know that at midnight as the 7th book comes out, i will be waiting with the crazy anticipation like this time. i sincerely hope that she ends well with the 7th. she needs to get over this killing phase of hers. i'm also disappointed that nothing happened further with sirius. i felt so sure that would turn into a plot line, but i know she won't leave it open like this...and omg!!!! hello, she's making harry SPIDERMAN!! what is that>!>!?!?! i mean i knew he would try to break it off bc of Voldemort, but why did SHE let him?!?!?!?!
Spoilers incase you haven't finished :
I like so many others, am convinced that Snape is not going to turn out to be evil.
Why?
He didnt kill Harry on the lawn when he could have... and... Other stuff.
I think he had to kill Dumbledore because of the Unbreakable Vow, and that he possibly had an Unbreakable Vow with Dumbledore (or something similar) that meant he would have to keep up his charade with The Death Eaters until Voldemort was destroyed. Dumbledore's unflinching faith in him is just inexplicable otherwise. But then, perhaps J.K. is trying to instill that old message once again that yes, we all make mistakes.
I can't believe Dumbledore is dead. I knew it had to be someone important, and the structure of the final book would be seriously altered if it was one of the central trio (though the structure of the seventh installment, from what can be gathered from the last chapter, is going to be different, anyway), but I still can't believe JK did this. Every single protector/parent that Harry finds is taken from him. Dumbledore was right when he remarked that Harry's continued ability to love despite all that is unusual.
I was relieved to realize that Harry can still talk to Dumbledore's portrait. It isn't the same, but it's something. He can still procure advice, support, and quotable thoughts. It makes me wonder if there isn't a similar preservation of Sirius or his parents somewhere, though I wouldn't know where to look.
There's been chatter on LJ communities about why it was mentioned that Tonks's Patronus changed into a werewolf. Obviously it had to do with Lupin (and, by the way, I'm really really girlishly excited about the prospect of them together, though I have a sinking feeling we're going to lose Lupin in the next book), but lots of people seem to think that it was introduced as a segue into the changed form that Harry's Patronus might now take: that of a phoenix.
PLUS! i thought we'd learn more about snape's trustworthiness to dumbledore. we didn't. i just kept thinking that somehow it wasn't dumbledore that was being killed, but alas i feel that it was. and i'm heartbroken.
Spoilers incase you haven't finished :
I like so many others, am convinced that Snape is not going to turn out to be evil.
Why?
He didnt kill Harry on the lawn when he could have... and... Other stuff.
I think he had to kill Dumbledore because of the Unbreakable Vow, and that he possibly had an Unbreakable Vow with Dumbledore (or something similar) that meant he would have to keep up his charade with The Death Eaters until Voldemort was destroyed. Dumbledore's unflinching faith in him is just inexplicable otherwise. But then, perhaps J.K. is trying to instill that old message once again that yes, we all make mistakes.
I can't believe Dumbledore is dead. I knew it had to be someone important, and the structure of the final book would be seriously altered if it was one of the central trio (though the structure of the seventh installment, from what can be gathered from the last chapter, is going to be different, anyway), but I still can't believe JK did this. Every single protector/parent that Harry finds is taken from him. Dumbledore was right when he remarked that Harry's continued ability to love despite all that is unusual.
I was relieved to realize that Harry can still talk to Dumbledore's portrait. It isn't the same, but it's something. He can still procure advice, support, and quotable thoughts. It makes me wonder if there isn't a similar preservation of Sirius or his parents somewhere, though I wouldn't know where to look.
There's been chatter on LJ communities about why it was mentioned that Tonks's Patronus changed into a werewolf. Obviously it had to do with Lupin (and, by the way, I'm really really girlishly excited about the prospect of them together, though I have a sinking feeling we're going to lose Lupin in the next book), but lots of people seem to think that it was introduced as a segue into the changed form that Harry's Patronus might now take: that of a phoenix.
PLUS! i thought we'd learn more about snape's trustworthiness to dumbledore. we didn't. i just kept thinking that somehow it wasn't dumbledore that was being killed, but alas i feel that it was. and i'm heartbroken.