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[beyondobsessive]

Does anyone else think it's incredibly lame that only three-ish characters under 20 (Fred, Colin Creevey & Crabbe, off the top of my head) kicked it? I mean, Hedwig's death just wasn't emotionally incisive and didn't cut it.

Also, I love what we learn abour Draco in the epilogue: he has a son named Scorpius and a receding hairline. Because the

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[lineofidledays]

The receding hairline made me lol. JKR has nothing if not a sense of humor.

[beyondobsessive]

I'll concede that she can still make me laugh; there were even a couple of scenes which endeared DH to me. None of the "serious" ones, of course, but still. It reminds me of being fourteen all over again.

That said, laughter and my-brain-is-on-fire-my-eyeballs-are-bleeding-this-is-awful disgust are the only emotions she elicits lately.

[lineofidledays]

Maybe she's been suffering from PMDD since book 3? Someone needs to refer her to a good gyno. Either that or it's biopolar disorder.

[beyondobsessive]

Or hubris. She could lift herself yet higher on that I'm-richer-than-the-Queen/"editors? what editors?" pedestal and compare herself to all the great heroes of tragedy!

[beyondobsessive]

I think it's really tragic, though, that she didn't mention HOW his hairline affected the ferrety elements of his appearance. HONESTLY. First Harry lives, and now this lack of important information? I'm devasted.

[beyondobsessive]

Like Polyjuice Potion wearing off ONLY when it will add "drama" to the "plot," even though it was specified in both CoS and GoF that the effects only last an hour?

DH was obviously all about AS/S and Draco's hairline. And maybe Harry's unrequited lust for Ginny-Sue.

[harpsi_fizz]

I'm more confused by the tangled rosebush that is everyone becomming related to everyone else. Sirius is Tonk's cousin and Harry's Godfather and... Teddy Lupin is snogging Victorie, who is Harry's wife's sister in law... and Ginny and Hermione are now sisters-in-law which makes Harry Ron's Brother in law and Ron Teddy's...

Eventually, this is going to lead to some incest, accidental or not.

The Weasley Family Name: More Hostile Takeovers than Microsoft and Haliburton combined.

[dwa20]

Well we already knew that the pure-blood lines are plaited rather than branched. Look at the Black family tapestry -- everybody is already related to everyone else.

[deme_yuca]

I thought Victoire was Ginny's cousin?

[beyondobsessive]

Well, if she's Bill and Fleur's daughter (general assumption, although the omniscient JKR didn't deign to tell us mere mortals), then she's Ginny's niece.

I hate that this book ended with everyone happy and procreating.

[dwa20]

all I got were Griffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin rubber bracelets, a few book marks and a poster. However, my daughter won her copy of the book. That was a nice surprise. She's 25 and was jumping around and yelling like a little kid. Hype is good.

She won the trivia contest. There were 10 questions and only about half a dozen people got them all right, so the odds were weren't too bad.

[shariperkins]

Yeah, it was really nice that we got to know about Draco's receding hairline, but we didn't have to learn about Harry's extra 25 pounds, Ginny's stretch marks, Hermione's oh so bad haircut, and Ron's early grey hair and bushy beard.