So!! Who's finished Deathly Hallows??

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DEATHISMYGIFT

Monday, July 23, 2007 3:24 PM

Picked up my copy at 12:10am, read the entire bloody weekend and finished Sunday around 3pm.

I feel very vindicated having debated with several people over the outcome of a particular charcter. (Not sure if we're suppose to spoil here or not)

I am going to be brutally honest. I did not enjoy the majority of the book. Hiding in a tent for more than 400 pages sort of made me frustrated while waiting for something to happen. But once things started to happen I couldn't put it down.

The only deaths I cried about was the witch and wizard who had just had a baby. (Naming no names as aforementioned spoiler alert)

Albus.

Severus.

My heart melted.

"it's always complicated and at some point someone has to draw the line and that is always going to be me. you get down on me for cutting myself off but in the end the slayer is always cut off. there's no mystical guide book, no all knowing council, human rules don't apply. there's only me....i am the law" -Buffy the Vampire Slayer

MSG

Monday, July 23, 2007 3:27 PM

It's ok to spoiler in here...just nowhere else...
and I am right with you...did the I told you so dance to friends who felt Snape was a bad guy.
I know.. he was a Slytherin and the bravest man I ever knew...sob

I know it was so sad about Lupin and Tonks... I did start to feel like it was a bit too Blair Witch what with the lost, danger, whining, fear...camping.

"I'm not all that interested in the mental health of people who want to kill me. "- Leroy Jethro Gibbs

LEIASKY

Monday, July 23, 2007 3:41 PM

I, too, think there needed to be a higher price paid in deaths. When kids can live through what went on while their teachers fall like flies around them, is just a little bit unbelievable to me.

I knew my favorite would die, Snape, but I was NOT expecting Hedwig to die. I loved that owl!

"A government is a body of people usually notably ungoverned."

MSG

Monday, July 23, 2007 3:44 PM

I know it stopped me reading for a good 5 minutes of sadness...
I think it's 'cause the teachers are more front line and in more danger and the kids are second line and therefore get attacked only after teachers have fallen...

"I'm not all that interested in the mental health of people who want to kill me. "- Leroy Jethro Gibbs

DEATHISMYGIFT

Monday, July 23, 2007 3:46 PM

Picked up my copy at 12:10am, read the entire bloody weekend and finished Sunday around 3pm.

I feel very vindicated having debated with several people over the outcome of a particular charcter. (Not sure if we're suppose to spoil here or not)

I am going to be brutally honest. I did not enjoy the majority of the book. Hiding in a tent for more than 400 pages sort of made me frustrated while waiting for something to happen. But once things started to happen I couldn't put it down.

The only deaths I cried about was the witch and wizard who had just had a baby. (Naming no names as aforementioned spoiler alert)

Albus.

Severus.

My heart melted.

"it's always complicated and at some point someone has to draw the line and that is always going to be me. you get down on me for cutting myself off but in the end the slayer is always cut off. there's no mystical guide book, no all knowing council, human rules don't apply. there's only me....i am the law" -Buffy the Vampire Slayer

DEATHISMYGIFT

Monday, July 23, 2007 4:24 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by TamSibling:
Still, aren't they all about raging hormones? Just kidding ...

Man, I thought the same thing. I told my gf, "Harry is alone with Hermione in that tent for that long and nothing happens? Aren't 17 year old boys only thinking about one thing?" and She said, "Yeah but he has a lot of other things on his mind."

It made me think of Xander. "I'm a seventeen year old boy, looking at linoleum makes me want to have sex."

"it's always complicated and at some point someone has to draw the line and that is always going to be me. you get down on me for cutting myself off but in the end the slayer is always cut off. there's no mystical guide book, no all knowing council, human rules don't apply. there's only me....i am the law" -Buffy the Vampire Slayer

LITTLEALBATROSS29

Monday, July 23, 2007 4:28 PM

I finsihed it last night !

Hedwig & Moody's deaths hit me hard..I really felt so sad for Harry loosing his familiar.He had so much loss already.Then Moody's death followed so quickly after that.It was heartbreaking to think he just fell.
Remus & Tonks shattered me too.They are favorites of mine.Knowing that Teddy grew up safe made the blow easier.

I loved learning about Dumbledore's past .
Percy coming in at the end made me happy . The Weasleys who deserved some happiness after their loss..

I thought the story moved at a quck pace & was never disappointed.Rowling remained true to the charachters & story as a whole .

19 years later...that part was so sweet.Learning that Harry & Ginny ,and Ron & Hermione lived on happily with their families was a perfect ending
I am grateful for the happy ending

I will admit I was wrong about Snape being a bad guy.But he was still creppy and hateful.

Molly kicked ass !!!!

The Centaurs & house elves kicked ass !!!

Neville kicked ass !!!!

Bryce
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" A revolution without dancing ,is a revolution not worth having.." V

ZEROKIRYU

Monday, July 23, 2007 4:36 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by DeathIsMyGift:
Quote:
Originally posted by TamSibling:
Still, aren't they all about raging hormones? Just kidding ...

Man, I thought the same thing. I told my gf, "Harry is alone with Hermione in that tent for that long and nothing happens? Aren't 17 year old boys only thinking about one thing?" and She said, "Yeah but he has a lot of other things on his mind."

And Harry said that he never thought of her like that, he always thought of her as his sister.

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MSG

Monday, July 23, 2007 4:40 PM

yeah not every guy is attracted to all women...in fact I don't know any guy 17 or not who'd jump any woman at all...and if he thinks of her as a sister then the thought wouldn't occur to him ( though it appears to have occured to Ron)

LA- oh come on no creepier than Dumbldore wanting to rule the muggles and getting his little sister killed in a fight..and lying to Harry and planning to sacrifice him, and being a bit power mad...actually Dumbledore was scarier to me than Snape. All that under the surface...but I like the theme of redemption and how even after a bad choice or series of bad choices that led you to act or becoem evil, you can still work your way back and make amends and becoem something good

"I'm not all that interested in the mental health of people who want to kill me. "- Leroy Jethro Gibbs

PHOENIXROSE

Monday, July 23, 2007 4:50 PM

Yeah, I know there were Harry/Hermione 'shippers out there, but they were never the ones who had sexual tension. Not once did he look at her that way, while Ron was starting to stew and act stupid over her by book four.
Even if they had, though, nothing could have really happened because it was a 'kid's book'. This relates back to my mini-rant about a book that really should be adult not being allowed to be adult. Even in Half-Blood Prince, when I'm sure things were getting a little heavy with Ginny, it was all skated over. Most we got was that there were 'stollen moments' and Ginny was asked if it was true Harry had a tattoo on his chest.
Violence okay! No sex, though!

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
A troll's hair is still pointy, even when it's wearing a hat.

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