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[spoilers!] HP Deathly Hallows - Tobias - 07-24-2007
Discussion: love it, hate it, why, why not.
[spoilers!] HP Deathly Hallows - Jewtastic - 07-24-2007
I enjoyed most everything about this book. I thought the final battle was a little short lived, a bit anti climactic if you will, but I guess there was no way around that, not when the Elder wand truthfully belonged to Harry.
Other then that I really enjoyed this one, I think I broke my personal record, seeing as the Order was my fastest at like a week, this was 2 and a half days.
[spoilers!] HP Deathly Hallows - Warako - 07-24-2007
I was sad they killed off Hedwig, poor little owl.
The ending was predictable imo, we all knew Harry wouldn't be killed off, though I wish he was. (I always cheer for the evil endings/outcomes.)
Nice to know there's always a possibility of another book(s).
[spoilers!] HP Deathly Hallows - Jewtastic - 07-24-2007
See I thought he would have been. In Order when the prophecy was read I was sure they were going to pull a sherlock homes/matrix. At one point I almost thought I was right...then I was wrong...
As for Hedwig...I can see why Rowling did, she would have had little to no part in the book, and be too much for Harry to lug around.
[spoilers!] HP Deathly Hallows - Krillin - 07-24-2007
We all knew? I had absolutely no idea. JK Rowling is so fantastic at plot twists and red herrings that, even though it 'seemed' obvious, I was still filled with doubts and suspicions.
It blew me away that Fred died.
It blew me farther away that Remus and Tonks died. Remus, I kinda figured (though dammit, he was the coolest teach evar), but Tonks? Damn =(
As soon as George's ear got sectumsempra'd off, I was like, "Shit, this is gonna be a wild ride."
I think Dobby's death struck me deepest though. Amazing, since I held that elf at about the same level as Jar Jar Binks.
Kreacher's turn-around was incredible. I loved that he was leading the charge at the very end.
Professor McGonagall had a great showing and really fleshed-out as a character.
Neville kicked ARSE. Absolute arse. I can not wait to see that done in the movie.
EDIT: I kinda ended up being right though. I kinda knew, deep down, that Harry was tied to Voldemort deeper than just the mind. I figured that meant they both had to die, though. That's how "Neither can live while the other survives" reads to me.
I love the ending. And by ending, I mean the "Nineteen years later" bit.
[spoilers!] HP Deathly Hallows - Tobias - 07-25-2007
I new Remus and Tonks were going to bite it when harry was named godfather.
The epilogue was a little too brief for my tastes but It satisfied me, a lot people apparently hated it, because there pet info wasn't there. Sure knowing Harry's job would have been nice but it doesn't really make or break it.
[spoilers!] HP Deathly Hallows - Tobias - 07-25-2007
also dumbledor was a total douche
[spoilers!] HP Deathly Hallows - Belle Hibiki - 07-25-2007
I liked almost everything in the book except for the 'romance'; JR simply can't write it as well as she can write adventure/mystery, so I wish to God she'd stop trying. Ironically, I found the most 'romantic' parts of the book to be the parts that weren't at all meant to be.
Even though a shitload of people died, because nobody in the Trio bit the dust, for me the whole thing had a lessened impact. JR might be good at 'red herrings', but in the end the series had one of the most cliched finishes in recent memory.
I know a lot of children read these books, but come on...
[spoilers!] HP Deathly Hallows - Belle Hibiki - 07-25-2007
Oh.
And I knew Snape > all.
[spoilers!] HP Deathly Hallows - Spencinator - 07-25-2007
I loved the last book, I truly did. I grew up with these books, and I ENJOYED these books. When I finally read the last page of the epilogue, I couldn’t stop smiling. Cliché or not, I thought it was a great ending. It may have not been the best ending, sure, but it fit perfectly for the series itself. I didn’t feel out of the loop, and I didn’t feel like there was much else to be explained. Voldemort lost, and Harry won.
This may sound cheesy, but this book made me feel hope. Sure, the series itself was fictional, but I felt hope in a way I haven’t felt in a while. A lot of fictional material I’ve been reading/watching lately has left me kind of hollow, but this book didn’t in the slightest. It did quite the opposite.
So yeah, you can roll my eyes at long-drawn out rant, but I felt I had to say that. =)
[spoilers!] HP Deathly Hallows - Krillin - 07-25-2007
How else could the series have ended? With any fight between good and evil, you just know that, for it to end satisfyingly, good has to prevail. I think the ending was absolutely gorgeous, because if you zoom out, yes, you'll find familiarity, but if you look at the individual chapters, it's incredibly well-written. Harry's character really shines.
I thought the romance was fine. She didn't bother with long, drawn-out descriptions of how Ron thought Hermione was sexy, or Hermione thought Ron was a dapper, responsible gentleman. She surprised you.
RON: "I think we ought to help the elv-"
HERMIONE: *SMOOCH*
That forces you to think back over how she's treated him lately and such, and it really works, imo.
[spoilers!] HP Deathly Hallows - Belle Hibiki - 07-25-2007
I don't have to defend my opinion to you, Krillin. Sorry.
[spoilers!] HP Deathly Hallows - Krillin - 07-26-2007
Didn't say you had to. Kind of ironic that you'd try to skirt a conflict with a barbed comment, however.
[spoilers!] HP Deathly Hallows - Celipa - 07-26-2007
I thought the romance was just fine, and the book was great. The epilogue was everything I needed in an epilogue, and open-ended enough for me to speculate. I love that.
Fantastic read. Work bit into my reading time, so it took longer than I would've liked, but I mean...this concluded six or seven years of reading.
I'm very satisfied.
[spoilers!] HP Deathly Hallows - Belle Hibiki - 07-26-2007
Krillin Wrote:Didn't say you had to. Kind of ironic that you'd try to skirt a conflict with a barbed comment, however.
<3
You know I love you Krillin~
[spoilers!] HP Deathly Hallows - Krillin - 07-26-2007
=)
[spoilers!] HP Deathly Hallows - Tobias - 07-26-2007
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[spoilers!] HP Deathly Hallows - Jewtastic - 07-26-2007
I like. While I would still like more it will do for now.
[spoilers!] HP Deathly Hallows - Blind Man - 07-29-2007
Too lazy to find the quote, but Krillin, I agree about what happened to Dobby and Kreacher. When Dobby died, I sat there gaping a little bit, even though it wasn't that much of an unexpected twist.
I really enjoyed Neville's progression, too. He did kick some ass in this book. I especially liked that he became professor of Herbology, that was pretty nice.
[spoilers!] HP Deathly Hallows - Josh - 07-29-2007
Weaksauce.
Some of the deaths were too quick, I mean Tonks, Lupin and Fred. Fred had least some part in the story where as Lupin and Tonks only appeared briefly and then suddenly they were dead. You literally go from one scene to the next and poof they are dead- zero meaning.
And Dumbledore, single biggest douche of the year award for him. Secrets within secrets which really should have cost Harry his life had it not been for the total Deus ex Machina of being a fuckin' horcrux.
And the elder wand, how the fuck did that work out? How do you come to the conclusion that it was Draco who defeated Dumbledore when all he did was disarm Dumbledore before Snape came and killed him. If disarming was all you needed to do, then everyones wand would act shitty after Expelliarmus, don't even get me started in the poor logic of stealing one wand from someone and getting complete loyalty out of every wand related to that person.
Also, the whole camping and arguing, that went on way too long, instead of spending a good third of the book on that they could have done a bit more with the character development and maybe spent half a paragraph for Tonks and Lupin's death instead of having them as an after note.