Agree about the prologue. It felt totally hokey.. "Albus Severus..."
And, weirdly enough, didn't cry when Mad-eye died, didn't cry when George got hurt, didn't cry when Hermione was getting tortured, but actually cried for the first time when Dobby died.
Knew Snape was good, and actually as soon as they showed the doe patronus, I knew it was Snape. Not sure how, but I remember when Harry saw his memory in OotP and I was thinking that he was in love with Lily, and it makes sense that James would be the stag and Lily the doe.
I almost shut the book when she killed Remus Lupin. I cried more for that than for anything else. And poor poor Fred :(
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ditto about the crying, including timing. Definitely. I wanted to feel bad when Mad-Eye died, but I couldn't.
Also ditto on the Snape-is-friend. I was convinced from the moment he uttered the countercurse against Quirrell. But I definitely had no idea it was his Patronus. I'm actually rereading OotP now, because I absorbed so little of that book when I read it first that I need a good solid reread for sure.
Lupin and Tonks were pointless deaths -- we don't know who they killed as they died, or when they did, or anything about their deaths.... except that in doing it, JK set up this my-parents-died-fighting-You-Know-Who connection between Teddy and his godfather. Meh.
Dumbledore won the wand from his evil boyhood friend (Grindelwald, I think? My sister has the book so I can't look it up) in that famous duel, and then Malfo disamred/defeated Dumbledore and it abandoned him to accept Draco as its new master. Then when Harry took it from Draco at the Malfoy's house, it became his own. YAY EXPELLIARMUS THEME!
It was the elder wand that confused me, because that's not the one Draco (or Harry) was using throughout the book. But yeah, it changed ownership without changing hands; that's the consensus we came to. So while it stayed with Dumbledore, it was no longer his.
I don't think there's a connection to the child in Omelas. There, one suffers so the rest don't have to. Here, one is finally reaping the suffering he chose to sow for all.
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And, weirdly enough, didn't cry when Mad-eye died, didn't cry when George got hurt, didn't cry when Hermione was getting tortured, but actually cried for the first time when Dobby died.
Knew Snape was good, and actually as soon as they showed the doe patronus, I knew it was Snape. Not sure how, but I remember when Harry saw his memory in OotP and I was thinking that he was in love with Lily, and it makes sense that James would be the stag and Lily the doe.
I almost shut the book when she killed Remus Lupin. I cried more for that than for anything else. And poor poor Fred :(
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Also ditto on the Snape-is-friend. I was convinced from the moment he uttered the countercurse against Quirrell. But I definitely had no idea it was his Patronus. I'm actually rereading OotP now, because I absorbed so little of that book when I read it first that I need a good solid reread for sure.
Lupin and Tonks were pointless deaths -- we don't know who they killed as they died, or when they did, or anything about their deaths.... except that in doing it, JK set up this my-parents-died-fighting-You-Know-Who connection between Teddy and his godfather. Meh.
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