Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: SPOILERS! And much discussion.

Twilight_Elena

Twilight_Elena

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What it says. I've been holding myself back for almost a full day because no one else i know has read it yet. Gasp!
SPOILERS! ~*~ SPOILERS! ~*~ SPOILERS!






Neville! I loved him! He went all cool and sexy on us and killed Nagini! Kill kill kill! Whoohoo! :D Take THAT!
Snape was on the good side! Okay, he was selfish and hateful and a racist, but he was on the good side, so that must count for something. And he sort of saw the error of his ways at some point, I guess. Can't say he was good, not if we consider he would have KEELED everyone if it wasn't for Harry's pretty pretty eyes, but he wasn't totally evil either. Obviously made some crappy decisions in his time. And Snape/Lily! Woot!
Three cheers for Zen, Kickass Harry! He grew up. It was so cool. When he grabbed the shovel and started digging up a grave for Dobby, I thought OMG. SEXY. And very cool. Remarkable guy.
And did anyone else think of Matrix III (station thing between the Matrix and the real world) and Gandalf's comeback when Harry woke up at a white room King's Cross thing? With no clothes on, no less.
When Harry and Teh Ebil started circling each other, I really expected they'd light up their sabers. Or maybe go Dirty Harry.
Remus was so sexy. Freaked out, messed up and sometimes crappy at making decisions, but sexy nonetheless. And adorable. The parts with Teddy and the baby pictures made me go all mushy.
Molly pwned Bella.
The deaths. Oh. The deaths. Remus was one of my favourite characters and I loved the Remus/Tonks shipping, so that really hit me. But also Dobby and Hedwig and Severus and Fred... ouch.
Must still be a bit out of it, but what the heck was that baby thing under the seat in Harry's hallucination/mystical "staying out of thought and time" thing? Was it the Horcrux? Was it some sort of symbolism I missed?

More later.

T_E
 
Twilight_Elena said:
Must still be a bit out of it, but what the heck was that baby thing under the seat in Harry's hallucination/mystical "staying out of thought and time" thing? Was it the Horcrux? Was it some sort of symbolism I missed?

More later.
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It was the remains of Voldemort's shattered soul, wasn't it?

While I'm ok with who died, I thought the rumor was that only 2 were going to die?

And yeah, I like how Neville stepped up to be one of the main heros :)

I also thought it was cute when Ron was talking about saving the elves, and Hermione could no longer control herself.
 
Shattered soul? Hmmm. Could be. I kept wondering what it was... Dumbledore kept saying that there's nothing that can be done for it...

T_E
 
And I don't see how (by what happened in the story) she's going to stop anyone else from writing about Harry. (short of using her 'Summonus Lawyerius' spell).
 
Twilight_Elena said:
Makes sense. I kept thinking of weird symbolisms, of innocence dying and whatnot. :rolleyes:
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And that fits Voldemort. He represents what happens when a wizard chooses the evil path. And the 'crying thing' was probably the part of Voldemort's soul that was attached to Harry via the scar.

I kinda figured Snape would turn out to be 'Good'. Too much of a dramatic setup to just keep him evil. What I thought would happen would be for the final showdown - Snape would sacrifice himself so that Harry could kill Voldemort. I guess the way it turned out was just as good (the pensieve).
 
Yeah, I thought of Matrix. It almost felt like JKR ripped off of Matrix... :|

The baby I thought was just a randomly dead infant who was passing through limbo...
 
Didn't seem like a random infant. Too much description and too much mentioning of it during the whole scene. Not with the whole flayed-looking and wounded thing going (A wounded, broken soul. Tj, now it makes even more sense). And if it was limbo, wouldn't they see more people?

T_E
 
Loved the back-story on Snape. Yeah, it was cliched--would have been much better had he actually really been evil--but I loved it nonetheless.

Loved the back-story on Dumbledore. Took him out of the realm of this all wonderful, almost mystic being and made him real.

Was glad to FINALLY see things coalesce between Ron and Hermione, was glad that Ron was finally allowed to be more of a full-fledged character than just comic relief.

I KNEW Harry was the 7th Horcrux. I've been saying that since I read the 6th book, and I was right. Feels so good...

I couldn't believe how many characters she killed off. But I really couldn't believe the cussing. That caught both my attention and DH's. I'm not sure if the "effing" or "B***H" caught me more off guard. I'm surprised that made it through, what with them ostensibly being children's books and all that.

Loved it. I like how many loose ends were tied up, overall. For more serious books, I like things left hanging and messy because it's more realistic...but for HP, I like that it's all tied up.
 
Someone over on journalfen made up some icons that say "Molly Weasley will f*** your s*** up." GO MOLLY.

It was a bit of a bloodbath, yes, but overall a satisfying one. Unlike, say, Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire", which is pretty much a masscre from the word go. I think the biggest letdown for me was indeed the cliche "Snape LUVS Lily" business.

Worst death in the "way it was done" sense: Wormtail's. Blink and you miss it.

Best: Bellatrix, tied with "Neville the Barbarian" going all Conan on Nagini.

Worst Death in the "ZOMG SHE KILLED...." sense: Remus AND Tonks both? Plus Tonks's father? So, what, Andromeda's gonna have to raise Teddy alone? So he gets to be some kind of weird combo of Harry and Neville (parents killed by Voldemort, raised by grandmother)?

Biggest "I'm glad she didn't kill...." : The enitre Malfoy family. Wasn't a fan until this one.
 
danceronice said:
Someone over on journalfen made up some icons that say "Molly Weasley will f*** your s*** up." GO MOLLY.

It was a bit of a bloodbath, yes, but overall a satisfying one. Unlike, say, Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire", which is pretty much a masscre from the word go. I think the biggest letdown for me was indeed the cliche "Snape LUVS Lily" business.

Worst death in the "way it was done" sense: Wormtail's. Blink and you miss it.

Best: Bellatrix, tied with "Neville the Barbarian" going all Conan on Nagini.

Worst Death in the "ZOMG SHE KILLED...." sense: Remus AND Tonks both? Plus Tonks's father? So, what, Andromeda's gonna have to raise Teddy alone? So he gets to be some kind of weird combo of Harry and Neville (parents killed by Voldemort, raised by grandmother)?

Biggest "I'm glad she didn't kill...." : The enitre Malfoy family. Wasn't a fan until this one.
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would have been nice to give andromeda a new love interest in the epilogue. maybe neville..
 
Well, after having written a book in response and losing in cyberspace.... ARGH. I will try to recreate my main thoughts.

It was nice to have my prediction of Snape in love with Lily confirmed.

I liked how she brought characters into the epilogue without actually mentioning them. Who else could Victoire be but Bill and Fleur's daughter.

I really enjoyed how she showed the turnaround in Kreatcher when Harry bestowed upon him the necklace of this past master. How his loyaly was completely switched to Harry.

You know you are deeply involved with fictional characters when you refer to them as actual beings. LOL. I would love to have seen the face of Griphook the goblin when Gryffindor's sword disappeared from his keeping and showed up in the sorting hat for Neville.

It was amusing to the see the similarites between the Malfoy and Dursley family dynamics. It was nice to see "Big D" having an appreciation for Harry after he saved his life.
 
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