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eeeeeeeeh.
Finished it a long time ago, actually, just havent got around to updating...
I must say, i was right about a lot of my theories! haha. not about hagrid though, and i never saw Fred's death coming.
Disliked:
some of the chapters in the middle, with them just wandering around in a tent, felt a little forced and like they went on for too long...Harry and Hermione sitting in a tent, both miserable and with no idea what to do, just isnt captivating or involving for long periods of time. I didnt like Ron leaving either, I thought it was out of character considering how serious the situation was.
Draco never doing a single thing to redeem himself-hell, if Dudley can suddenly reveal some depth, why not Draco? I was disappointed about that. I'm wierdly attached to his character.
Dumbledore's portrait talking like it was his own reincarnation....and harry going up to his office to announce to the portrait his plans. Just...No. He's dead.
The Luna/Dean implications. Luna/Neville would have been much better.
The scene at Gringotts. It was my least favorite of all the "action" scenes. The multiplying gold was okay, but escaping on a dragon, blasting through stone, unscathed? too convenient.
Colin's death. Jarring, badly placed in the sequence of deaths, pointless. of all the deaths i resent this one the most.
Molly killing Bellatrix, unlike most people who loved it. Although it was cool, i guess, that molly overpowered her, I thought Neville should have done it and the "YOU BITCH" thing was cheesy. comical, when it should have been climactic. Also, their duel was much too short, too rushed.
And, of course, the epilogue has been pretty much universally acknowledged to be a waste of paper. What about the twenty or so other characters we came to care about? What about their occupations? gag. there was one thing i liked about the epilogue, however, that i cant see how we would have gotten if she had done it any other way-
Loved:
Albus Severus. I know a lot of people hated that revelation, but i thought it was brilliant. And the bit about Snape being the bravest man harry knew-finally some acknowledgment about how much snape sacrificed-basically everything-to keep Harry alive, to help him, to do the right thing.
Everything Snape. The bits in the beginning where he did a few things that were hard to justify, that put his redemption in doubt, and the fact that Harry got to see everything in the pensive-bravo. The Prince's Tale is one of my favorite chapters of the entire series. I loved how dumbledore's regard of him slowly changed, from "you disgust me" to "your way forward is clear", coldly, to "you are a braver man by far.." and that he belonged, now, in gryffindor to "I am lucky...very lucky...that i have you, Severus." I found the snape/lily storyline surprising but the more i thought about it, the more it explained, the more it fit in with everything else.
Snape sacrificed more, i think, than any other character to aid Harry and the defeat of voldemort. Even Fred, who died young, went out like a hero, the same with remus and tonks...Snape had no one, absolutely no one after dumbledore's death who understood the truth- everyone he had been fighting with in the order despised him, he was forced to feign respect and awe to the wizard who killed the only person he ever loved, and he never lived to see himself vindicated. Terribly, terribly sad. I think his story is probably the most masterful storytelling of the series. The "Look...at....me", his final words...awful, but brilliant. Poor sev.
the last three or four chapters of the book....from harry's walk to death with his dead loved ones to his talk with dumbledore to narcissa pronouncing him dead....loved it. Especially the chapter of King's Cross. Harry HAD to have a final talk with dumbledore, the book would have been incomplete without it.
Godric's Hollow-yes, yes, yes. the grave scene was well done, and we havent had anything as horrific as a snake bursting out of an old woman's neck for a long while. Great chapter.
Neville. great development. and everything with Aberforth, and the mirror. that was good and one of those things that i should have seen coming, but didnt.
Ron/Hermione's makeout scene. FINALLY. although it would have been better if they had done it in front of both lavender and Krum, and had removed some clothing in the process.
and i actually really like Ginny/Harry, and always have. too bad the epilogue was so bad. but i'm still glad they ended up together. and the bits about harry remembering some quality alone time in deserted corners of the hogwarts grounds...omg SO SCANDALOUS. i loved that JKR just kind of left everyone wondering. I must admit that during harry's "walk to death" I was wondering if Ginny would end up having harry's kid after he died, as a kind of hopeful consolation for killing off the most popular hero in literary history.
The revelation that dumbledore was...gasp...flawed. very well done, and explained a lot of things about his character that i think the readership had simply attributed to him being superhuman and a saint.
Overall-obviously i liked it. i was pretty undecided throughout most of the middle but i loved the last chapters so much that i have to pronounce myself at least somewhat satisfied. I think i was a bit different than most fans in that i was mainly interested in seeing Snape's story unravelled, and in the way that i wanted it to, and i got what i wanted.
two days ago i fell off while riding. hard. Penny and i were galloping-all-out bareback through the field by the barn and, basically because i havent been on a horse in almost a month, we made a tight turn, had a short argument about speed and direction, and I fell off. Hard, at what felt like 48293084 miles an hour. I have huge scrapes on my back and arms, and a lump on my head...haha. That's what i get for neglecting the firecracker i call a horse. You'd think, at 20, her energy would have evened out a bit? lmao.
of course, despite the fact that it felt like i had a concussion, i was suitably pissed off to get back on, bareback, and work her for another half hour...I'm really not the brightest, am I? yesterday at work i felt like i was going to throw up/pass out.
in other news, I think i might be developing something resembling a crush on someone at work. This strikes me as basically hilarious. How long has it been since i've had a secret crush? hahahaha.
Finished it a long time ago, actually, just havent got around to updating...
I must say, i was right about a lot of my theories! haha. not about hagrid though, and i never saw Fred's death coming.
Disliked:
some of the chapters in the middle, with them just wandering around in a tent, felt a little forced and like they went on for too long...Harry and Hermione sitting in a tent, both miserable and with no idea what to do, just isnt captivating or involving for long periods of time. I didnt like Ron leaving either, I thought it was out of character considering how serious the situation was.
Draco never doing a single thing to redeem himself-hell, if Dudley can suddenly reveal some depth, why not Draco? I was disappointed about that. I'm wierdly attached to his character.
Dumbledore's portrait talking like it was his own reincarnation....and harry going up to his office to announce to the portrait his plans. Just...No. He's dead.
The Luna/Dean implications. Luna/Neville would have been much better.
The scene at Gringotts. It was my least favorite of all the "action" scenes. The multiplying gold was okay, but escaping on a dragon, blasting through stone, unscathed? too convenient.
Colin's death. Jarring, badly placed in the sequence of deaths, pointless. of all the deaths i resent this one the most.
Molly killing Bellatrix, unlike most people who loved it. Although it was cool, i guess, that molly overpowered her, I thought Neville should have done it and the "YOU BITCH" thing was cheesy. comical, when it should have been climactic. Also, their duel was much too short, too rushed.
And, of course, the epilogue has been pretty much universally acknowledged to be a waste of paper. What about the twenty or so other characters we came to care about? What about their occupations? gag. there was one thing i liked about the epilogue, however, that i cant see how we would have gotten if she had done it any other way-
Loved:
Albus Severus. I know a lot of people hated that revelation, but i thought it was brilliant. And the bit about Snape being the bravest man harry knew-finally some acknowledgment about how much snape sacrificed-basically everything-to keep Harry alive, to help him, to do the right thing.
Everything Snape. The bits in the beginning where he did a few things that were hard to justify, that put his redemption in doubt, and the fact that Harry got to see everything in the pensive-bravo. The Prince's Tale is one of my favorite chapters of the entire series. I loved how dumbledore's regard of him slowly changed, from "you disgust me" to "your way forward is clear", coldly, to "you are a braver man by far.." and that he belonged, now, in gryffindor to "I am lucky...very lucky...that i have you, Severus." I found the snape/lily storyline surprising but the more i thought about it, the more it explained, the more it fit in with everything else.
Snape sacrificed more, i think, than any other character to aid Harry and the defeat of voldemort. Even Fred, who died young, went out like a hero, the same with remus and tonks...Snape had no one, absolutely no one after dumbledore's death who understood the truth- everyone he had been fighting with in the order despised him, he was forced to feign respect and awe to the wizard who killed the only person he ever loved, and he never lived to see himself vindicated. Terribly, terribly sad. I think his story is probably the most masterful storytelling of the series. The "Look...at....me", his final words...awful, but brilliant. Poor sev.
the last three or four chapters of the book....from harry's walk to death with his dead loved ones to his talk with dumbledore to narcissa pronouncing him dead....loved it. Especially the chapter of King's Cross. Harry HAD to have a final talk with dumbledore, the book would have been incomplete without it.
Godric's Hollow-yes, yes, yes. the grave scene was well done, and we havent had anything as horrific as a snake bursting out of an old woman's neck for a long while. Great chapter.
Neville. great development. and everything with Aberforth, and the mirror. that was good and one of those things that i should have seen coming, but didnt.
Ron/Hermione's makeout scene. FINALLY. although it would have been better if they had done it in front of both lavender and Krum, and had removed some clothing in the process.
and i actually really like Ginny/Harry, and always have. too bad the epilogue was so bad. but i'm still glad they ended up together. and the bits about harry remembering some quality alone time in deserted corners of the hogwarts grounds...omg SO SCANDALOUS. i loved that JKR just kind of left everyone wondering. I must admit that during harry's "walk to death" I was wondering if Ginny would end up having harry's kid after he died, as a kind of hopeful consolation for killing off the most popular hero in literary history.
The revelation that dumbledore was...gasp...flawed. very well done, and explained a lot of things about his character that i think the readership had simply attributed to him being superhuman and a saint.
Overall-obviously i liked it. i was pretty undecided throughout most of the middle but i loved the last chapters so much that i have to pronounce myself at least somewhat satisfied. I think i was a bit different than most fans in that i was mainly interested in seeing Snape's story unravelled, and in the way that i wanted it to, and i got what i wanted.
two days ago i fell off while riding. hard. Penny and i were galloping-all-out bareback through the field by the barn and, basically because i havent been on a horse in almost a month, we made a tight turn, had a short argument about speed and direction, and I fell off. Hard, at what felt like 48293084 miles an hour. I have huge scrapes on my back and arms, and a lump on my head...haha. That's what i get for neglecting the firecracker i call a horse. You'd think, at 20, her energy would have evened out a bit? lmao.
of course, despite the fact that it felt like i had a concussion, i was suitably pissed off to get back on, bareback, and work her for another half hour...I'm really not the brightest, am I? yesterday at work i felt like i was going to throw up/pass out.
in other news, I think i might be developing something resembling a crush on someone at work. This strikes me as basically hilarious. How long has it been since i've had a secret crush? hahahaha.