Book 7 is ova'!
Okay okay okay!
I feel like I am bringing up the rear here, but after a week I have FINALLY finished Deathly Hallows, with only one legitimate spoiler. Yay!
Okay, so, Snape, I love you, I love you I love you I love you. It seems a lot of people were put off by the Snape/Lily "pairing", but I found it natural and I even liked the way it was presented. I mean, it wasn't even really a pairing, it was clear it was just one-sided love on Snape's part, and even that I felt to be almost platonic in nature. I have always loved Snape's complexity and for me this added backstory and Harry's final realisation of Snape's courage and ultimately his goodness of heart rounded out his story nicely for me. Aw Snape, we always knew you were a good guy... nevertheless, I think it was appropriate that he should die, b/c how in the world JKR would have dealt with him being alive is beyond me... it's not like he and Harry could be all buddy-buddy all of a sudden.
Dumbledore. I liked how she wrapped up his story, humanised him a little more with a slightly murky past but in the end kept him the wise and infinitely benevolent headmaster we all know and love.
I cried a bit when Fred died and when the Weasleys were mourning; I really think I would have bawled if I hadn't known it in advance, thanks to some loud-mouth girl at school here who finished the book after the first weekend. >.>
What else... oh! Did the climactic battle scene at the end rock or what? I loved how everybody and their mom came out of the woodwork, professors, centaurs, house-elves, everybody! And Mrs. Weasley kicking ass, how cool was that?!?
And bad things? I was PISSED that BOTH Lupin and Tonks decided to engage themselves in perilous battle, when they had and infant at home. I mean, come on, couldn't ONE of them stay behind? It's like Harry Potter all over again, even after he told Lupin not to abandon his kid. I'm also wondering if Ted wound up being a werewolf like his dad...
And I really wanted an update on George... I mean, killing off Fred was like losing one half of a whole, the twins were one character really. How did he get through that?
Finally, some more concrete questions: that whole Elder Wand thing got me thoroughly confused... so Dumbledore died, but it couldn't be Snape's because he hadn't won it. It was Malfoy's because he took it from Dumbledore while he was still alive, but when was that? And then Harry took it from Malfoy, but I thought he had gotten Malfoy's own wand from that, not the Elder Wand. But if Harry had gotten the Elder Wand, then how did it wind up in Dumbledore's tomb for Voldemort to discover later? If anyone can map out that bit of plot confusion for me, that would be wonderful.
The other thing was, well, that thing at King's Cross Station when Harry "died", that baby or whatever. What was it? Dumbledore told Harry not to be sorry for the dead but for the living when Harry looked at the thing, so is it death?
Clearly this book requires a re-read. The whole series does, actually.
*sigh* I can't believe it's over now. There are no more mysteries to be revealed, we know everything we will ever know about the Harry Potter universe. Fortunately almost everything turned out well, but I've still got that feeling of melancholy I get whenever a beloved series is over.
On the bright side, I can look forward to $10 when I get back to Garland; my brother and I had a bet on whether Harry would die or not... brother, owned. XD
I feel like I am bringing up the rear here, but after a week I have FINALLY finished Deathly Hallows, with only one legitimate spoiler. Yay!
Okay, so, Snape, I love you, I love you I love you I love you. It seems a lot of people were put off by the Snape/Lily "pairing", but I found it natural and I even liked the way it was presented. I mean, it wasn't even really a pairing, it was clear it was just one-sided love on Snape's part, and even that I felt to be almost platonic in nature. I have always loved Snape's complexity and for me this added backstory and Harry's final realisation of Snape's courage and ultimately his goodness of heart rounded out his story nicely for me. Aw Snape, we always knew you were a good guy... nevertheless, I think it was appropriate that he should die, b/c how in the world JKR would have dealt with him being alive is beyond me... it's not like he and Harry could be all buddy-buddy all of a sudden.
Dumbledore. I liked how she wrapped up his story, humanised him a little more with a slightly murky past but in the end kept him the wise and infinitely benevolent headmaster we all know and love.
I cried a bit when Fred died and when the Weasleys were mourning; I really think I would have bawled if I hadn't known it in advance, thanks to some loud-mouth girl at school here who finished the book after the first weekend. >.>
What else... oh! Did the climactic battle scene at the end rock or what? I loved how everybody and their mom came out of the woodwork, professors, centaurs, house-elves, everybody! And Mrs. Weasley kicking ass, how cool was that?!?
And bad things? I was PISSED that BOTH Lupin and Tonks decided to engage themselves in perilous battle, when they had and infant at home. I mean, come on, couldn't ONE of them stay behind? It's like Harry Potter all over again, even after he told Lupin not to abandon his kid. I'm also wondering if Ted wound up being a werewolf like his dad...
And I really wanted an update on George... I mean, killing off Fred was like losing one half of a whole, the twins were one character really. How did he get through that?
Finally, some more concrete questions: that whole Elder Wand thing got me thoroughly confused... so Dumbledore died, but it couldn't be Snape's because he hadn't won it. It was Malfoy's because he took it from Dumbledore while he was still alive, but when was that? And then Harry took it from Malfoy, but I thought he had gotten Malfoy's own wand from that, not the Elder Wand. But if Harry had gotten the Elder Wand, then how did it wind up in Dumbledore's tomb for Voldemort to discover later? If anyone can map out that bit of plot confusion for me, that would be wonderful.
The other thing was, well, that thing at King's Cross Station when Harry "died", that baby or whatever. What was it? Dumbledore told Harry not to be sorry for the dead but for the living when Harry looked at the thing, so is it death?
Clearly this book requires a re-read. The whole series does, actually.
*sigh* I can't believe it's over now. There are no more mysteries to be revealed, we know everything we will ever know about the Harry Potter universe. Fortunately almost everything turned out well, but I've still got that feeling of melancholy I get whenever a beloved series is over.
On the bright side, I can look forward to $10 when I get back to Garland; my brother and I had a bet on whether Harry would die or not... brother, owned. XD