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shihadchick

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Jul 21, 2007 16:39

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confluencekid July 21 2007, 04:59:36 UTC

Nothing surprised me. I was always in the 'Harry is a Horcrux' camp and a friend convinced me a few weeks ago re snape being in love with Lily, although the childhood friends thing was a nice touch. I was frustrated at the continued lack of info about harry's background; what did Lily and James DO after they left hogwarts apart from being in the order? had they thrice defied voldy because of order work? although admittedly they were younger than i thought when they died. but again if they were so young when they had harry why were both sets of his grandparents dead? She could really have called it 'dumbledore and the deathly hallows' and been more accurate ( ... )

shihadchick July 21 2007, 05:14:55 UTC

I called a lot of things (which surprised me, actually), and I agree to an extent about the epilogue - I think in large part it's going to be more there for a) the people who go straight to the back to read the last couple pages first and b) the younger ones who need more of a reassurance after the ending. Does that make sense? I realise book binding involves even numbers of pages and all, but I think the fact there's a blank page between the end of the book and the epilogue is a spacer in more than just physical ways. I think it read a lot more grownup than the others - in terms of writing style, too - and I kind of like that - I think some kids might struggle, yes, but there's also so many people who've grown up WITH the books that I think it works for me ( ... )

confluencekid July 21 2007, 05:32:48 UTC

Yeah I hadn't thought of the epilogue in terms of reassurance but that makes sense. I think she should have called one of harry and ginnys kids 'fred' though ;)

I really truly thought neville was a goner too! He was so brave getting that sword. I had wondered if she'd twist the whole prophecy thing and bring neville in there somewhere so i'm glad he got to do something vital.

Hedwig was too quick for me, I was like 'what, um ok so hedwigs dead already,thats it?' so I didn't get emotionally involved but yeah Dobby was tough.

I would never in a million years have picked the bartender thing or that it was aberforth so go you!:)

I loved Dudley at the beginning and that Percy came back in the end. I felt a lot of empathy for draco which surprised me.

We didn't get home with ours till nearly 12 as stupid, dumb etc etc paper plus had the WORST queuing system ever! grrrrr.

shihadchick July 21 2007, 05:41:19 UTC

I think probably one of them is/will be called that - there's no reason to assume ALL the kids were at the station, right? *grin* Either that or George (and probably Angelina, because this is a kids book and so marriage is most likely going to be between people we've seen together already) beat them to it ( ... )

confluencekid July 21 2007, 06:07:57 UTC

Ahh see I never thought of that. Dear god poor Ginny I hope they didn't have tooooo many more kids ( ... )

shihadchick July 21 2007, 06:15:13 UTC

Oh, I agree. YIKES. Hee.

And oh, god, yes, although I figured Hermione was probably one of the safer ones, if only because I think I remember hearing that she's JKR's favourite, you know?

And, yes, I totally can't describe it that well, but the tone was certainly different.

I think it's up there with POA for me, yes. And I need to reread HPB, because I so don't remember much of it.

Oh, darn! Hee. I... god, I am hungry. I had coffee in line and a bowl of cereal and it's 6pm. Must be strong for another hour, Chris is coming over and we're getting fish and chips. \o/

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