It's finally safe to venture back online now that I've finished Deathly Hallows. I am so glad I waited since one of the first posts I saw was full of spoilers without courtesy of an lj-cut
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Once again she wrote a book I got deeply involved with I have to admit. There were a lot of things that I found heartrending and shocking. I was devastated when she killed off Hedwig! Just shot down while sitting in her cage, ignoring Harry. She wasn't even doing anything. It seemed such a pointless way to die somehow.
But it did set the tone for the rest of the book.
I agree with you that Aunt Petunia wanting to go to Hogwarts was a very interesting twist. I can understand it too and I would dearly love to know what Dumbledore said to her in reply to her letter. I was half expecting her to actually be a witch but be afraid of the powers and refuse to go to the school, but I guess we saw what happens in that case with Ariana.
I loved that while Dumbledore's past wasn't as admirable as one would have thought, it made him, much like Snape, all the more a hero for it, because he learned from the sins of his past
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A lot of things about Dumbledore make sense now. He's always been raised up on a pedestal by Harry in the past and so he's seemed to be something not quite real. The man with all the answers, all the time. It was refreshing to actually see a man in this book. Someone who was selfish and made mistakes and regretted them the rest of his life.
I felt for him when Harry realised what it was that Dumbledore was actually seeing in the mirror of Erised and how it mirrored, if you'll forgive the pun, what he saw himself.
Draco's lack of redemption is definitely a sore point. I would have liked to have seen something with Draco at least standing up for himself at some point, or working with Harry, or even at the end perhaps going against his family a little by "babysitting" his now orphaned nephew. lets not get into the fact that no one seems to have brought this child upHedwig I can't understand. Unless Rowling decided that having an owl meant that they could communicate with the outside world a lot easier and she didn't want that so she
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Here's what gets to me. Compare Tonks to Lily. Lily, for love of her son, sacrifices herself to save him. Tonks, while in theory she did it for love of her son and all of man and wizardkind, and for love of her husband, just came on the scene like a bat out of hell, too bright and too much of a contrast to a story already rich in characters. I wanted to like her, but I just never really felt for her like I did for Sirius (who was a jerk himself) or Snape or Lupin.
The deaths that hit me the hardest were Snape, Fred Weasley, Lupin, and Hedwig. I will add that I was very happy to see Percy come back to the Weasley clan and for Molly to kick more than a little ass as she faced off against Bellatrix.
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Once again she wrote a book I got deeply involved with I have to admit. There were a lot of things that I found heartrending and shocking. I was devastated when she killed off Hedwig! Just shot down while sitting in her cage, ignoring Harry. She wasn't even doing anything. It seemed such a pointless way to die somehow.
But it did set the tone for the rest of the book.
I agree with you that Aunt Petunia wanting to go to Hogwarts was a very interesting twist. I can understand it too and I would dearly love to know what Dumbledore said to her in reply to her letter. I was half expecting her to actually be a witch but be afraid of the powers and refuse to go to the school, but I guess we saw what happens in that case with Ariana.
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I felt for him when Harry realised what it was that Dumbledore was actually seeing in the mirror of Erised and how it mirrored, if you'll forgive the pun, what he saw himself.
Draco's lack of redemption is definitely a sore point. I would have liked to have seen something with Draco at least standing up for himself at some point, or working with Harry, or even at the end perhaps going against his family a little by "babysitting" his now orphaned nephew. lets not get into the fact that no one seems to have brought this child upHedwig I can't understand. Unless Rowling decided that having an owl meant that they could communicate with the outside world a lot easier and she didn't want that so she ( ... )
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The deaths that hit me the hardest were Snape, Fred Weasley, Lupin, and Hedwig. I will add that I was very happy to see Percy come back to the Weasley clan and for Molly to kick more than a little ass as she faced off against Bellatrix.
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