So!! Who's finished Deathly Hallows??
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UPDATED: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 19:03
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MSg..I admmit Dumbledore was creppy too.But he changed his views & redeemed himself.
As did Snape.
I spent so long not liking him,that I don't know if I can like him ,no mater how he helped.I do admire him though.
What he did to save Harry & help Dumbledore was brave . And it was awesome to see his memories of Lilly's friendship & I even felt bad for him when she told him to go his own way.
I was pleased to be wrong about him 
I also thought Harry would die ..and was thrilled to find out at King's Cross that he was only mostly dead
Bryce
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Voldemort: You died, Mister Potter...
Harry: Seemed like the thing to do...
[time passes...]
Harry: You wanna meet the real me now?!
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Finished Saturday night coz I cant stop reading threads like this
Also, I can kill you with my brain.
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SAB39 ?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHaaa, that was great.
PR ?
On thinkin about it, you might be right, my own best guess would be Hagrid having Mundungus slip him a new wand on the sly, and concealing it in the umbrella - that makes the most sense, and being that he was expelled, even if later exonorated and is "not supposed to do magic", and his furtiveness about it, seems to fit that theory pretty good.
Just a thought on the matter.
-F
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i was in my car by 12:04 AM saturday morning with my very own copy of deathly hallows. and this.. is from someone who is usually in bed by 9!!!
i finished the book by 11:30 saturday night... would've finished sooner if my sister would have left me alone. every ten minutes she was texting me asking what was happening.. who died and so forth.
everything that happened wasn't too shocking for me. i figured on the people who died (i knew a twin was going to.... think i'm gonna cry again!!!!)
now all that is left is to start the series over again and take my time reading each one.
did anyone else find it a little funny how JKR ended it?
"The scar had not pained Harry for ninteen years. All is well."
think she could write another book when she feels the need????
just makes me wonder (or at least wish.....)
SNAPE IS/WAS GOOD!!!!
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Originally posted by sab39:
Voldemort: You died, Mister Potter...
Harry: Seemed like the thing to do...
OH! Did anyone else kind of sit up straighter when Harry told Hagrid to "just keep flying"?
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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Yeah, Rose, I noticed that too.
SAB39, way too funny. 
LA, I am with you, Percy hopping out of that tunnel just made me smile so big. It was even more poingnant when he refused to leave Fred's body for a few moments (did anyone else notice that George was not really present in that scene, or did I just read it too fast?)
I also thought it was a bit creepy that Dumbledore and Grindelwald were working to make "a better world". I kept seeing Chewitel's face playing Grindelwald.
I know I have mentioned it elsewhere, but Dobby was actually the saddest of all the deaths for me.
And Neville certainly kicks ass.
~jimi
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So, can I just mention that I picked up my book on a whim Sunday night, when I saw it at Shaw's market? Oh yes, and the card-holder price was $20. (I borrowed a card LOL!)
Anyway, I took yesterday off to read it. Thoroughly enjoyable. The things that bugged me didn't bug me enough to be a problem, because the plot was twisty and turny and fun. (I'm not a huge fan, didn't have a pile of expectations and guesses going into it, I'm sure that helped.)
I mostly enjoyed all the little stories embedded in there, the little backgrounds on people and the three brothers myth and such. I do really like Snape - mostly because Alan Rickman plays him, and I looove his voice. The depth of Dumbledore, that he's not such a pure, untarnished hero, was fabulous.
But, really, I don't think this a book I'll re-read and love forever. It was totally plot driven, and honestly I didn't feel for any of the characters personally. I felt most of the dialogue was about advancing plot, instead of letting me see more depth in the characters (the kind of thing FF is so good at.)
And the plot got a little too fancy at times. I'll agree with some folks that I saw the hand of the writer a whole lot. Molly at the beginning really annoyed me, keeping the big three separate with wedding chores so they couldn't talk. I mean - not likely! There was a lot of that - little contrived things to slow done the revealing of facts and make time pass so the story would take up the required school year term.
And this confused me: when Harry had his face all whacked out by Hermione's spell, Lucious kept demanding that Draco ID him. Doesn't Lucious know perfectedly well what Harry looks like? I mean, even if it's been a year since he saw him...
The reasoning for Mrs. Malfoy, at the end, calling Harry dead, didn't work for me either. Sure, she wanted to be on the winning side, but the baddies were closer to winning at that point. If she told them Harry wasn't dead, they could finish him off and be the winners, possibly ending the battle right there so she would go rescue Draco. Giving Harry a chance seemed to put Draco in more danger. OK, so maybe V wanted to go after Draco as a failure, but that wasn't the reasoning given.
I just feel that was a big moment, make or break for the whole climax, and it didn't carry for me.
Yeah, so that's a lot of critical, but I did find the book really entertaining. So much pressure and spotlight on Rowling, and I think she lived up to it.
Oh, but the 19 years after happy happy stuff? Hated it. 
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I finished it monday night though i did work 17 hours wanting to be able to read it!
I was surprised how LOW the death toll was! I expected one of the main three to die! Though i was choked up at the death of Dobby and moreso at HEDWIG! How could they???
And i feel sorry for Harrys kid- hes got a godawful name. Albus Severus Potter?
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Quote:
Originally posted by mal4prez:
she wanted to be on the winning side
No, she wanted her son. She was a mom; it wasn't about winning or losing.
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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