'm now very worried about what this poor boy has been for the previous 19 years.
I assumed he'd been living with Andromeda, who was never said to be dead, (and someone would probably have mentioned it). Harry, after all, is hardly equipped for the needs of a small child.
:) Okay then. I may slightly have fixated on the Godfather thing and forgot that the baby had any living relatives. I'm slightly but not completely mollified.
Okay, I had no idea why he was important to the plot until it suddenly became ALL ABOUT THE WANDS
Gah! The wands! They confused the hell out of me at the end. I read those pages like 5 times and I'm still not really sure what happened.
I did, actually, like the Deathly Hallows as objects/fairytale. It's a nice look at the trio: Ron who wants the power/strength, Harry who is ever marked by death, Hermione who looks at the story and can't see why anyone would pick anything but the right answer.
I'm expecting to like it more the second time around when I'm not spending the whole thing bracing myself for deaths. I know! I read the book in about 7 hours, because I just needed to see who was going to bite it next...
I would rather that a key plot moving point hadn't been Harry being stupid enough to forget that saying Voldemort's name was bad. Yes, but it is in character for him to do so. He tends to forget himself when he's angry... Oooops. :D
I knew (in an unspoiled way) that Snape would die. Oh, yes, me too. I didn't know if it would be duelling with Harry because he was evil, or saving Harry because he was a good guy (in the end, it turned out to be neither), but my money was on him as well.
He died and it's awful but it wasn't pointless or evidence of authorial contempt. Yup. I like that Snape remained someone really, really petty and bitter and unlikeable (I like fanon!Snape, but canon!Snape has always made me want to reach into the book and throttle him. There's just no excuse for the way he treated the kids in his
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I assumed he'd been living with Andromeda, who was never said to be dead, (and someone would probably have mentioned it). Harry, after all, is hardly equipped for the needs of a small child.
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Gah! The wands! They confused the hell out of me at the end. I read those pages like 5 times and I'm still not really sure what happened.
I did, actually, like the Deathly Hallows as objects/fairytale. It's a nice look at the trio: Ron who wants the power/strength, Harry who is ever marked by death, Hermione who looks at the story and can't see why anyone would pick anything but the right answer.
I loved that too :)
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Did you like the book as a whole?
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I know! I read the book in about 7 hours, because I just needed to see who was going to bite it next...
I would rather that a key plot moving point hadn't been Harry being stupid enough to forget that saying Voldemort's name was bad.
Yes, but it is in character for him to do so. He tends to forget himself when he's angry... Oooops. :D
I knew (in an unspoiled way) that Snape would die.
Oh, yes, me too. I didn't know if it would be duelling with Harry because he was evil, or saving Harry because he was a good guy (in the end, it turned out to be neither), but my money was on him as well.
He died and it's awful but it wasn't pointless or evidence of authorial contempt. Yup. I like that Snape remained someone really, really petty and bitter and unlikeable (I like fanon!Snape, but canon!Snape has always made me want to reach into the book and throttle him. There's just no excuse for the way he treated the kids in his ( ... )
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