100% Agreed.
Also:
Scorpio Malfoy lol
violin
I just finished it as well. Pleasently surprised, although a bit let down. Unfortunately I think Rowling’s cramped style kind of slowed things down a bit. However, the final battle was very interesting in that it occured at Hogwarts. The whole books nobody really mentions Hogwarts, really at all, and then everything comes right back down to the school. It worked, as that’s the location the readers are most responsive to and know the most about, as well as the place Harry calls home the most. And perhaps my favorite part of the book was McGonagall’s spell that activated the Suits of Armor and the Statues throughout the halls and her order for them to “defend our school!”. That’s real movie magic I think.
In the end, I think the ending was rather contrived. The whole love thing has bothered me from it’s appearance at the end of Goblet of Fire. While certainly a noble and exciting cause, the wow-factor and the sense that the wizarding world’s magic is unlimited and infallible that a simple thing like love becomes the deciding factor. Of all the extraoridnary things wizards and witches can do, it comes down to how they feel about eachother that decides who wins the ultimate war of attrition? It felt as nothing more than a stable pyric victory.
I’m not wholly satisfied. Not cheated or robbed or anything like that - just not completely filled.
lmbo
In addition, I will add that the most terrifying moments for me were in the Malfoy manor. Hearing Belatrix yelling ‘CRUCIO!’ in the midsts of bellowing and echoing screams from Hermoine was excellently written. And Dobby coming to the rescue was wonderful and his death probably the one that hurt the most, to me at least.
I guess the more I think about it, the more I liked it.
Just for the record, anyone that cares that much is an idiot/nerd.
Or someone who’s already read six books and wouldn’t like the final book spoiled thankyouverymuch. Sounds normal to me.
I hate the latin names of the spells.
So is this book worth buying or not?
If you like that sort of thing.
I liked the part when they’re wondering where to go next … and then Harry gets his mental-connection-with-Voldemort thing … and then ol’ Voldy goes and thinks about where they all are. A touch of contrivance, but yeah.
And I didn’t interpret it as “love” in and of itself, so much as “self-sacrifice” – the fact that one is willing to die in order that someone else may be protected has its own power.
I enjoyed it thoroughly, I must say. Snape’s death affected me the most; especially when it was revealed that Snape was actually good the whole time. Of course, it was something that we couldn’t doubt if we looked at the clues from the beginning.
I will say that Rowling’s writing has improved vastly from the first book (and, especially, from the fifth book). It isn’t perfect, but everything tied together nicely (like a bundle of cheese-wheels).
Precisely. At the very least, Rowling does manage to tone-down the sappiness of it all by having the warding spell being activated by self-sacrifice. So it’s not just “love conquers all” but actually having the balls to go and voluntarily give up your own ass for the sake of those you love that wins the fight. Which is why Harry couldn’t be told that he had a shot at life: He had to actually go there with the full intent of dying for it to work.
Lol yeah. They might as well have named him Evilor, sheesh.
I totally agree! I felt so angry reading that part. Similarly, another part that made me feel intense emotion - probably my favorite part of the book - was when Ron has to destroy the locket horcrux. It was a very cool scene, especially given Ron’s obvious feelings of inadequacy throughout the entire story.
Good thing I personally don’t care then.
Just for the record, as it was Ron saying the name, I don’t know how seriously it is to be taken. <.< I honestly just thought it was him hating on Malfoy.
Which is good, because at the rate she was going that sappiness would have, in my opinion, ruined the whole thing had she gone that way. As the story unfolded, and especially when Harry realizes he has to die, I was relieved to see that she had bypassed the “love conquers all” and found another way to work it in. I mean, it’s great and all - the love stuff - but really, that’s a little too easy. I’m glad she worked it out differently.
SG, I enjoyed that scene as well although I thought it was a little late in the story line for Ron to still be having those insecurities. I would have thought that after all they had been through, even after Ron was a Prefect, that maybe those feelings had subsided into a sense of one-ness shared by the three in that they were in this thing together. I was really disheartened when Ron left because, personally, I thought we were past all that. I also loved the tie in with the Elder Wand and how Voldemorts quest for ultimate power was sidestepped by basic magical know how. Poetic, if nothing else.
Just wanted to note that I thought it was nice that by the end it seemed all those references Dumbledore had always made to love applied as much to Snape’s love for Lily as they did to Harry’s parents for their child.
If you like that sort of thing.
I like the characters. I don’t like when Rowling starts talking about all the different facets of the Wizarding world etc. That leaves me dry. So anything with character development I like.
In general, don’t fuck with the Longbottoms. I loved that Neville pulled the sword from the hat and killed Nagini before Harry had a chance to save him.
I think I temporarily went hysterical when Kreature led the house-elves charge into battle when fighting resumed after Harry’s death.
So, Victoire, or however it was spelled would that be Bill and Fleur’s kid then? Seeing as James commented that Ted (Tonks) was snogging their cousin and that’s the only other Weasley couple that had been defined with children unaccounted for.
Also, I get to brag to me high school buddy that my guess for main character pairings was right and his was wrong.
Heh … the pairings were pretty much established by the end of book 6, weren’t they?
Also, Dumbledore, in the previous book, had a slightly different definition of “I am going to tell you everything” than I did, although, again, he couldn’t tell Harry “You’re going to go and get yourself killed, except that you’ll be only mostly dead.” (This calls for Miracle Max!)
Wow Harry, could you think of a worse name? Albus Severus Potter? Seriously?
I loved it. Although, the night I purchased it was perhaps the wierdest night of my life, the book itself was quite good. I only have a few issues with it:
I got a little lost when Harry started explaining all the machinations of the Elder Wand to Voldemort. So Draco was the wand’s owner? What?
I really liked how [SPOILER]Dumbledore was doomed to die from the beginning and that everythig was a ploy from the beginning. The side story with Dumbledore and Harry really developed the character’s of both and I enjoyed that as well but the best part of the book is how Harry is forced to go through things with less help than before. I understand that Hermoine saved him more times than he can count in this book (I believe she was more useful than ever before) but there are plenty of chapters where Harry really doesn’t know what to do or where to go. In the other books, Harry could always go to Dumbledore or there was always some clue that came about pretty quickly but everyone but harry really had to learn how to perservere here.
When Harry was all “Why’d you make it so hard for me?” to Dumbledore. I nearly lol’d.[/SPOILER]