Finished HP & the DH a couple of hours ago...

[l_zinkiewicz]

Am feeling a great sense of anticlimax, probably because I read some spoilers a couple of days ago.

Much of it was very inevitable, really - Jo set things up in such a way in the preceding 6 books that I'd predicted many of them. The surprises:
- the hallows subplot - I thought the hallows would be the horcruxes
- Ron walking out on Harry &

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HP and the DH

[sue_bursztynski]

Yeah, I had similar feelings. I'd expected Draco to be redeemed and instead it was his parents - well, you kind of expected Narcissa, but not Lucius. I'd assumed Hagrid would die, instead of running tea parties for Harry's kids, and his brief moment of glory involved trying to save the attacking giant spiders - not surprising, that, actually.

What surprised me was how many deaths happened off-stage.

I don't agree about the meaningless activity - this one took me on a roller coaster ride, with far less unnecessary stuff than usual. Agree about Snape's death - I'd expected him to die, but more dramatically than that. Sort of like Tasha Yar wiped out in a couple of seconds at the beginning of the episode.

I didn't let myself read the end till I got there, but I found evidence throughout that he was, indeed, one of the good guys, such as when Ginny is caught stealing the sword from his office and all he does is send her to Hagrid. Of course, in the last book, he had every chance to kill her and the others and merely sent them in to look after Flitwick, whom he only knocked out instead of killing...

Anyway, nice to see we have aimilar thoughts. :-)

Re: HP and the DH

[l_zinkiewicz]

Well, you influenced my thinking about how the book would go!

Quite a lot happened off-stage, which I wouldn't be surprised if they put on-screen when they make the film - e.g., what happens at Hogwarts while H, H & R are in the woods -- sounds lots more exciting, at times!