Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Emily
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Okay, I just finished it. Anyone else? 
Overall I thought it was a good read, and a good ending to the series. Wasn't crazy about the epilogue and I thought the book would have done better ending on the last chapter instead, but what can you do. The part when
Also I'm disappointed that
Overall I thought it was a good read, and a good ending to the series. Wasn't crazy about the epilogue and I thought the book would have done better ending on the last chapter instead, but what can you do. The part when
Harry thinks he has to sacrifice himself
had me bawling, and that's always an indiciation of a good book in my warped mind. Also I'm disappointed that
Sirius
was really dead. All this time I thought he'd make a comeback. I am, however, glad that the
magic mirror
from Book Five played into this one, because I always thought that was an obnoxious red herring. Sign in to comment in this discussion.
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I already had my phase were i read lot's of Fantasy and Science Fiction books and when i tried a Potter book once it just wasn't the right thing for me as i've read much better books already.
A fellow Sims 2 player and a Potter fan? How cool is that?
ETA: I'm still hoping that Snape is a good guy underneath it all *crosses fingers and toes*.
While the deaths were hard to take, it made the story feel more real in that no character was truly safe from harm. I also actually liked the epilogue, although it was a bit cheesy... however, it provided good old fashioned closure.
I made sure to finish it before the week started and I had to go out into the real world... I also avoided sites like ytmnd for weeks because I knew spoilers would be out there. I am happy to say I read the book without anything spoiled for me, and it was a much richer experience because of that.
I hope JK Rowling doesn't do any more books in this universe... short of maybe some sort of anthology of cut parts or developed backstories and B storylines which didn't make it in (a sort of for-pay version of the appendecies which take up the last fifth of Return of the King) or something like that. I hope when it comes to novels she goes on to something new or hangs it up now, quitting while she's ahead.
I preferred my own ending where it turns out Harry has actually gone insane by being locked under the stairs for several years (with the fumes of various cleaning products), made up the stories of magic and friends, etc. and ends up killing the Dursleys who he imagines as the evil Lord Voldemort. The wonderful feasts he imagined at Hogwarts were actually stray pets he lured back into the cupboard... I could go on?
Actually, the epilogue is ill-fitting because it's the chapter J.K. Rowling wrote before the rest of the book, supposedly so she'd know where she was going with the series.
Ahaha! Brilliant.
I've always liked the books' storylines, but not Rowling's writing talent, unfortunately, and this was probably the clumsiest use of language and grammar I've yet seen of her. Oh well.
Overall I really enjoyed it, though. I just have a habit of dwelling on the negative
P.S. In the epilogue,
Yeah, I can never decide whether the commissioner really exists myself.
I used to be an avid Potter fan (read number 5 in one day, I was that obsessed), but after 5, maybe even 4, I don't feel it was as good as it was.
I've heard 7 is a lot better than 5 and 6, but I'm not in any rush to read it yet.
On her Today Show interview she spoke of a Harry Potter Encyclopedia style book that she will eventually write to fill in a lot of the blanks. I would like that, as she has clearly developed a lot more to the stories than actually appears in the novels themselves.
I liked it a lot, and for the first half, thought it was the best-written of the entire series. I thought that the latter half started to devolve into the same wacky stuff that's been in every other book, where the book feels like an old-school British mystery story, but then the plot turns out to hinge on some obscure bit of magic lore the audience had no possible way of guessing.
I'm impressed with it just on a technical level -- to have a book that so many people are waiting for, with all kinds of obscure little details that fans are dying to see one last time, and she managed not only to hit everything, but to tie it all together in a mostly coherent story. But even better than that, the characterization worked. Fred & George Weasley are genuinely funny, there are plenty of clever jokes and dramatic scenes that all worked pretty well. (The Snape chapter was a little trite, but it was fine overall).
The only complaint I have, and it's one I've seen in other places as well, is that we don't see
She should have left the epilogue off completely and published that separately.
Burn, burn, burn!
Harry Potter is teh devilz cuz he uses (OMG) MAGIC to kill evil people!
Ok, just kidding. I don't actually believe that kind of stupid bull.
I do believe that Hermione
I also had kinda hoped Draco would do well.. something. After all his appearences I have to admit, I was hoping he'd switch sides or grow a spine or something, but no.. nothing. He just remains a snivelling little sod who has no real relivance to anything. A shame really, after the last book you'd think he'd have something to say or do you know?
I loved the part with Snape's erm.. redemtion shall we say? I was waiting the whole book for that one.
Slightly dissapointed by some characters, impressed and amused by others (Neville is hardcore man! go neville! suddenly I find myself as his squealing fangirl)
I suppose my main criticism is that with an epiloge so much more could have been tied up, there shouldn't have been a need for an FAQ/Q&A session because all the loose ends SHOULD have been sorted!
Other than that, it was a good read. Had me giggling and points and sadnened at others. I enjoyed it even with all it's faults.