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Book 7 is less than 2 weeks away. I am so excited and looking forward to reading the final chapter of the HP series. I suspect there will be bittersweet as I read it, knowing thsi will be the last HP book.
Any other fans, itching for the next book?
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i CANNOT wait!!!!! i am sooo freaking excited!!!
i just finished reading the 5th book for the second time to prepare me for the movie...and now im reading the 6th book for a second time to get me reasy for the last book..its gunna be soo sad to read the last book... :(
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I'm like pissing myself in anticipation. I'm about 1/3 the way through book 5 and I'm going to try and squeeze in Book 6 right before I read Book 7.
Fuck summer reading.
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I just hope Harry dies. :2guns:
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I just hope Harry dies. :2guns:
ha nice um smily thing..anywho um I think killing off Harry would be a more dramatic feel to it, haveing him survive is sooo the easy way out...what if they all die? freaky..
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I bet that everyone's lives will count on the final moment. As Harry and Voldemort move in for the kill, Dumbledore's ghost will perform a darkness charm and everything will fade to black. The End.
I've never been a Harry Potter fan, but I'm afraid that the ending will be a huge cop-out. I hope I'm proven wrong, though.
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I'm not as hyped for Deathly Hallows, but I'm still pretty excited. As long as Ron and Ginny die, and there's no Ron/Hermione anymore, I'll be happy.
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I just hope Harry dies. :2guns:
Haha, me too.
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I have a feeling that if J.K. kills off Harry, then some crazy fan will kill her. I fear for her life in a Harry Potter-dies scenario.
Either way, I'm pumped up as hell. I've got next week to reread Half-Blood Prince. I'm almost finished reading OotP for the 2.5th time.
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I'd love to re-read the books again before reading the 7th . . . but I think I'm too lazy. But I'm still totally stoked about the Deathly Hollows! I just know that reading the last page is going to be one of the saddest times of my life (which is a bit dorky . . . oh well!).
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I'm not as excited as i thought i would be. Probably cause she killed off sirius black and that annoyed me :lol:
ok so that was a book ago..i should stop grudging hehe.
i want Harry to live- what kinda end would it be if she killed him off?
maybe ron or hermione die though...
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There's spoilers already out that are somewhat believed to be true, with Table of Contents scans up too. There's a lot of a debate regarding the authenticity of these sources though >_>
And Scholastic and Bloomsbury is shutting down anything with spoilers, real or fake.
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Came out today! I have yet to go and get a copy...
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i went to a potter release party last night - we had the book in ur hands and out of the store by 12:20... i'm not a huge potter fan - but there were people in the store til 2:30am waiting for books - i just went along with my bf and his sister so they could get books.
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I stayed up til 4:45 this morning to finish the book. It came in the mail at 1 PM yesterday. Tell me when everyone's ready to talk spoilers.
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hehe I finished yesterday night at 11:59, precisely (according to my clock). I am happy with the ending, happy endings are... happy!
Although, I was not as shocked for the "2 main characters" who were supposed to "die"...
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WELL!! I am done the book....i got it on saturday morning....i have to say i was VERY happy with it....
WARNING! SPOILERS BELOW!!
I was disappointed but also somewhat happy that Harry Ron and Hermionie all survived...i was expecting 2 MAIN characters to die...but i guess that considered fred and lupin to be main characters...
I was quite sad when Harry viewed Snape's memories in the pensieve and to find out he had been helping them the whole time... I was also very sad that tonks and lupin died since they had just had their baby :(
I didnt rally care about Mad-eye dying....and i was kinda sad about dobby dieing.
I found it very entertaining when Mrs.Weasley killed Bellatrix.
I was actually pretty happy with the epilogue...
I was soo glad to see that ron and hermione had gotten married as well as harry and ginny. I liked how harry's kids were named after his parents and albus...i also liked how Albus's middle name was severus. I thought it was very touching when Harry said that Snape was probably the bravest wizard he ever met.
I wonder who ron's kids were named after////were they even named after anyone?
What are everyone elses thoughts..??
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WELL!! I am done the book....i got it on saturday morning....i have to say i was VERY happy with it....
WARNING! SPOILERS BELOW!!
I was disappointed but also somewhat happy that Harry Ron and Hermionie all survived...i was expecting 2 MAIN characters to die...but i guess that considered fred and lupin to be main characters...
I was quite sad when Harry viewed Snape's memories in the pensieve and to find out he had been helping them the whole time... I was also very sad that tonks and lupin died since they had just had their baby :(
I didnt rally care about Mad-eye dying....and i was kinda sad about dobby dieing.
I found it very entertaining when Mrs.Weasley killed Bellatrix.
I was actually pretty happy with the epilogue...
I was soo glad to see that ron and hermione had gotten married as well as harry and ginny. I liked how harry's kids were named after his parents and albus...i also liked how Albus's middle name was severus. I thought it was very touching when Harry said that Snape was probably the bravest wizard he ever met.
I wonder who ron's kids were named after////were they even named after anyone?
What are everyone elses thoughts..??
i'm gutted that lupin and tonks died :( i havent read all the book yet...i was just told. and fred actually! why kill him off? he's a right legend!
I just grinned when i read that hermione and ron got together...hehe. It was wanted by all.
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WELL!! I am done the book....i got it on saturday morning....i have to say i was VERY happy with it....
WARNING! SPOILERS BELOW!!
I was disappointed but also somewhat happy that Harry Ron and Hermionie all survived...i was expecting 2 MAIN characters to die...but i guess that considered fred and lupin to be main characters...
I was quite sad when Harry viewed Snape's memories in the pensieve and to find out he had been helping them the whole time... I was also very sad that tonks and lupin died since they had just had their baby :(
I didnt rally care about Mad-eye dying....and i was kinda sad about dobby dieing.
I found it very entertaining when Mrs.Weasley killed Bellatrix.
I was actually pretty happy with the epilogue...
1. It would hav been very tragic for Hermione and Ron to die, I wanted that to happen to tell you the truth. But I guess we have to settle for Fred and Lupin, and it's very sad that Lupin and Tonks died and Ted was just born... really sad.
2. Ha! I knew it! Snape wasn't a bad guy! I'm actually not surprised at all that Snape was in love with Lily and have been trying to protect Harry the entire time. I kinda figured that out when Harry viewed Snape's memory in The Order of the Phoenix. What a great way for Rowling to close the Snape fiasco altogether.
3. Yeah... Mrs. Weasley was really pissed haha. "Not my daughter, you b***!!!" lol
Rowling really tied everything in the end, so clean cut but there's still some mystery behind it which is very good. I can't believe that Harry Potter is done, I guess we just have to wait for the movies! :)
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I loved it....but I was left with one question... Who was the person who did magic late in life? I must have missed that somewhere...
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I loved it....but I was left with one question... Who was the person who did magic late in life? I must have missed that somewhere...
Hey Krystina....where was that mentioned?? i cant remember...
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WELL!! I am done the book....i got it on saturday morning....i have to say i was VERY happy with it....
WARNING! SPOILERS BELOW!!
I was disappointed but also somewhat happy that Harry Ron and Hermionie all survived...i was expecting 2 MAIN characters to die...but i guess that considered fred and lupin to be main characters...
I was quite sad when Harry viewed Snape's memories in the pensieve and to find out he had been helping them the whole time... I was also very sad that tonks and lupin died since they had just had their baby :(
I didnt rally care about Mad-eye dying....and i was kinda sad about dobby dieing.
I found it very entertaining when Mrs.Weasley killed Bellatrix.
I was actually pretty happy with the epilogue...
1. It would hav been very tragic for Hermione and Ron to die, I wanted that to happen to tell you the truth. But I guess we have to settle for Fred and Lupin, and it's very sad that Lupin and Tonks died and Ted was just born... really sad.
2. Ha! I knew it! Snape wasn't a bad guy! I'm actually not surprised at all that Snape was in love with Lily and have been trying to protect Harry the entire time. I kinda figured that out when Harry viewed Snape's memory in The Order of the Phoenix. What a great way for Rowling to close the Snape fiasco altogether.
3. Yeah... Mrs. Weasley was really pissed haha. "Not my daughter, you b***!!!" lol
Rowling really tied everything in the end, so clean cut but there's still some mystery behind it which is very good. I can't believe that Harry Potter is done, I guess we just have to wait for the movies! :)
I agreet that she tied up everything very well.. EXCEPT for not telling us what rons, harrys , ginnys and hermiones careers are....i wan interested in finding that out... i was also hoping to hear something about Luna in the epilogue....just cuz we heard something about neville...which leaves Luna....and since she's one of the main 6 i thought she'd mention her....
Hahahaha ya i was pretty surprised when mrs. weasley said YOU BI***.lol
i was also surprised to find out that snape was in love with Lily...i found it quite sad how he took the last page of that letter cuz her name was on it :(
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WARNING.. THERE MAY BE SOME SPOILERS
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My book arrived at 12:15pm Saturday and I finished reading a little after 4pm Sunday. Wow.. that was awesome! I started crying when Dobby died... The whole locket thing reminded me of "my precious"..very cool... I like how JKR followed the main characters almost the whole time, instead of jumping into what was going on at Hogwarts and then jumping back to the Quest... It read so cleanly and smoothly. I feel like I absorbed more from, this single reading than the other readings of the other books. . And the way things tied up with Snape was quite nice.
Wow, this book was so exhilarating and satisfying. Thank you JK Rowling! Thank you!
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Im still saddened about who died. Its so damn depressing....excellent book, but sad.
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Well I've heard about the person learning magic late in life on the HP forums a while ago...but I did find this to back it up
Barnes and Noble interview, Accio Quote
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/...sandnoble.html
"Will there be, or have there been, any "late blooming" students in the school who come into their magic potential as adults, rather than as children? By the way, I loved meeting you, and hearing you speak, when you came to Anderson's in Naperville. I can hardly wait until you tour again."
JKR
"Ahhh! I loved the event at Anderson's. It was one of my favorites. That is completely true. No, is the answer. In my books, magic almost always shows itself in a person before age 11; however, there is a character who does manage in desperate circumstances to do magic quite late in life, but that is very rare in the world I am writing about. "
Anyway, on those sites, they had posted questions to think about while reading the final books (including what Dudley saw when near dementors and what Lily and James' profession was, which werent answered, but you cant have everything) but it was a big discussion we were having while in line for the book...and I def. must have missed it
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I was reading about that on the LeakyCauldron forums and nobody else was able to find that character, either. You're not alone.
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Ohhh i seee Krys.....hmmm ya i cant think of who that it either....
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I've heard rumors (before the release) that Dudley was gonna show some magic late in life. But obviously it wasn't mentioned so we can only speculate.
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Did anyone else get really sentimental over Dobby's death.... I think I only cried more at Sirius' death in Order of the Phoenix. It was so well written imo.
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I totally cried when Dobby died.
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Did anyone else get really sentimental over Dobby's death.... I think I only cried more at Sirius' death in Order of the Phoenix. It was so well written imo.
I was at work when I read that part, so I didn't cry so much as get teary eyed, but if I had been alone then I probably would have. I did start to cry when it looked like Hagrid had died.
Overall this book is astounding - but the epilogue is pretty disappointing, in my opinion. I mean, it didn't answer much, did it? The lives of many characters were never tied up...to me it felt like JKR ran out of steam and just slapped on an ending.
I still can't quite believe it's over...
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Overall this book is astounding - but the epilogue is pretty disappointing, in my opinion. I mean, it didn't answer much, did it? The lives of many characters were never tied up
I agree with you..there was SOOO MUCH more i was hoping to hear about in the epilogue....ill hope she ties up some things she never mentioned in the book in an interview or sumthing...because even though she didnt write them down, im sure she has an idea of what happend to the rest of the characters in her head...
i cant believe its over either :(
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Did anyone else get really sentimental over Dobby's death.... I think I only cried more at Sirius' death in Order of the Phoenix. It was so well written imo.
I didnt cry about Dobby...i did with sirius though. i can read it now, even, without getting teary eyed.
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I read yesterday that in a few years she might write an encyclopedia that discusses past present and future of all the characters. Here's the article.
Additionally, Jo announced that she "probably will" create a Harry Potter encyclopedia! From NBC's website:
"The encyclopedia would include back stories of characters she has already written but had to cut for the sake of narrative arc (“I've said before that Dean Thomas had a much more interesting history than ever appeared in the books”), as well as details about the characters who survive “Deathly Hallows,” characters who continue to live on in Rowling’s mind in a clearly defined magical world."
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That would bee AWESOME if she made an encyclopedia....i ould definately get it :)
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I think everyone saw this already but it's so funny! This guy made up a song about The Deathly Hallows, the anticipation part of it and it's hilarious! :D
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CvvFiZyEyTA
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I think everyone saw this already but it's so funny! This guy made up a song about The Deathly Hallows, the anticipation part of it and it's hilarious! :D
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CvvFiZyEyTA
wow, thats actually pretty good! :lol:
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Sorry for my recent hiatus. I haven't been on the boards lately but i'll make up for that. Anyway, I wrote a small review for this book on another forum so I'll just paste what I wrote. I assume we're allowed to spoil now, right?
I just finished the book and I've got to say that I thought it was quite worse than a lot of the books in the series. I felt that it lacked a little more planning than the others and it seemed there were more happenings that were "God-like" that could not be thwarted, which more or less shaped the ending of the book. Well, as JK says, we cannot explain what happens all the time in the wizarding world or whatever.
I was a little suprised to see no mention of the Mysterious Corridor when they were in the Ministery of Magic because I thought that was a major occuring theme taken from the Order of the Phoenix. Simply said, the visions that Harry had of Voldamort, I thought would be of him in the corridor doing something.
I thought that the Battle of Hogwarts was pretty unrealistic. I'm sure Students would have been no match for experienced DeathEaters. Granted, not all of them were but it seems difficult to imagine - if i'm not mistaken, Harry didn't teach all that in the D.A. On second thoughts could it have been "Mad Eye" who taught the DATDA class the Killing curse, when he was using it on the spiders? I have forgotten what really happened.
About Lilly's eyes: JK said it was really important that Harry had her eyes. I don't think it was that important. What I thought was strange was that Petunia had a chance to go to Hogwarts - and I was so sure she was a squib.
Hmm...Snapes love for Lilly? Old news, I had thought that ever since the first book because of his unexplained anger at Harry [the son of James who he envied from the start and who got Lilly in the end]. My thoughts were reinforced ever since we saw Snape's memory of him calling Lilly a Mudblood. I had always know his true allegiance to be with Bumblebee.
Now, Bumblebee's selfish ways I didn't see. That came as a shock, I admit that and I refused to believe Rita's journal on the Life and Lies of Bumblebee, even though at the end they turned out to be only half-truths.
Overall, I think this Harry Potter book is an enjoyable read. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it and everything but I just thought it was no where nearly as good as the previous 5 and in my opinion, was on par with the Philosopher's Stone. I would assume that JK really didn't know how to end the Half Blood Prince and about the Horcruxes. Even though she knew what the ending would eventually be [the ending of the whole series], I thought she was a little careless at writing the end of the Half Blood Prince. In short, she didn't know how to start the Deathly Hallows and the whole journey without Hogwarts. I would assume, this book was the worse planned book in the series and I think she might feel the same way - the story was haphazard. She's probably full of regrets. I'm sure i'm not the only one to say that the chapter, "Nineteen Years Later", was much Stilton and other cheese products. I give this book 4/5.
I will definitely miss not reading about Harry Potter anymore but JK says, never say never. I would like to thank the stupid, major-league ass who spoilt the book for me on the forums with a misleading title. Because of that I knew 2 of the most important spoilers - the one on Fred and the one about Snape [I would assume it's okay to say spoilers now since it's been almost a week and I know no one would click this thread if they haven't and wanted to read the book]. I had been sure Draco would have been the one to die and I knew from interviews with JK that Harry would not die and that Bumblebee was indeed dead.
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just finished it! was my favorite HP book, closely followed by number 4.
And ha, now I get to gloat to all my friends that I was right about harry being a horcrux. Or i could keep my mouth shut... but where's the fun in that?
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I really didn't care much for the book. :/ There were some parts that I really enjoyed and were pretty suspenseful, but in the end I thought it was a mediocre finish to a really epic story. I dunno, I was just left wanting more when I finished the book.
Warning - Spoilers!
Like, through most of the book Harry and the others don't even know what's going on, like - the whole tent scenario of the characters moving from place to place that lasted forever was pointless.
And the fact that EVERY SINGLE TIME they got close to achieving something and doing something right something bad happened, or someone messed up and Death Eaters were right around the corner to catch them. Like, I don't know how many times I read a scenario and then J.K. Rowling attempted to pull a twist and was like, "OH NO! HARRY USED VOLDEMORTS NAME AND THEY GOT CAUGHT BY SNATCHERS! OHHH." Like, it was entertaining some of the time but after awhile it became pretty comical.
And I was really really disapointed with Voldemort. The entire god damn book he was just running around looking for the Elder Wand and finally just realized his Horcruxes were destroyed really late in the game. In some parts of the book he was portrayed in a way that didn't really cast him as this omnipresent dark force - especially at the end during during the Battle for Hogwarts. And his character suffered from it. Voldemort's one of the best villains in mordern pop culture to surface for quite some time and at the end of the book I was disatisfied as to how Rowling used him.
The final confrontation with him and Harry was incredibly anti-climatic. She built up the final confrontation with him and Harry so much throughout all the books, and she did a really good job of keeping the Battle of Hogwarts scenario really suspenseful, but as it all came to a close with Bellatrix and Voldemort dueling everyone in Hogwarts I was just like, "What the hell." Bellatrix, who's an amazing villain in her own right, and who caused almost just as much strife in the lives of the characters as Voldemort himself recieved an end that really didn't do her justice. At all.
And the whole speech that Harry spouted to Voldemort before they cast their final spells at one another, which basically is the ENTIRE final confronation was really disapointing.
The ending was really rushed to, I dunno, it should've been fleshed out a lot better. All this stuff is happening and then we receive this really anti-climatic end and than it ends shortly afterwards.
And I really didn't like the 19 years later Epilogue. :?
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JKR answers many questions about the epilogue, etc
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/19959323/
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/7/30/j-k-rowling-web-chat-transcript
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harry potter = retardo maximo
although i cant wait till he does porn!
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Omg, can a moderator please just ban this person already. This is getting rediculous.
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Omg, can a moderator please just ban this person already. This is getting rediculous.
Seriously, i was thinking VaderDawsn should be banned too. HES PROMOTING HARRY POTTTER FOR CHRISTS SAKE. :cry:
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Omg, can a moderator please just ban this person already. This is getting rediculous.
Seriously, i was thinking VaderDawsn should be banned too. HES PROMOTING HARRY POTTTER FOR CHRISTS SAKE. :cry:
I think you're just weird and don't know it yet.
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I had called it that Snape was a really a good guy by the end of book six. My friends all thought I was crazy, saying "no way- he killed Dumbledore!" And I figured that he would die before Harry realized that Snape actually was a good character. I was really pleased with the book. I even like that Harry didn't actually kill Voldemort using a killing curse. I think that makes him an even more respectable character.
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I finally finished off the book... Snape's char being good....was expected... a bit... the ending was sweet... kinda like the "charmed" ending where you take the character many years into the future... So that no one may tamper with them...
I didnt like the way Voldy died.... It was tooo small and sudden... very very blah...
Tho yeah after seeing who Tonks really was...(after watching the movie and seeing what her character loked like...) ... I did feel bad when I read that she died with her husband...
Oh the ending when Ted was "snogging" Bill and Fleurs daughter was kinda cute too....
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I finally finished off the book... Snape's char being good....was expected... a bit... the ending was sweet... kinda like the "charmed" ending where you take the character many years into the future... So that no one may tamper with them...
I didnt like the way Voldy died.... It was tooo small and sudden... very very blah...
Tho yeah after seeing who Tonks really was...(after watching the movie and seeing what her character loked like...) ... I did feel bad when I read that she died with her husband...
Oh the ending when Ted was "snogging" Bill and Fleurs daughter was kinda cute too....
I thought about the way that Voldemort died (lol at "Voldy") and decided that maybe what Rowling was trying to get across is that Voldemort died in such a simple way that it proves he wasn't as great, or as significant as he thought himself to be.
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FINALLY I finished the book today!!
I'm a bit of a slow reader but keep in mind I only read on my way to work and when I travel and quite rarely at home (made an exception today for HP 7).
All in all, I was glad with the book. It's my favorite now, with the 4th and 6th ones.
I do have a question though (highlight to read):
why is it that Draco is the true owner of the Elder Wand and not Snape??
That got me confused in the end.
I hope too that this encyclopedia will happen sometime in the (near) future.
I wanna learn more about the HP world and it'd also be nice to learn more about this "19 years later period". ;)
edit: nevermind, I found why Draco was the true owner of the Elder Want, read here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20035573/
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that was interesting... never remembered what happened in half blood... come to think of it...
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FINALLY I finished the book today!!
I'm a bit of a slow reader but keep in mind I only read on my way to work and when I travel and quite rarely at home (made an exception today for HP 7).
All in all, I was glad with the book. It's my favorite now, with the 4th and 6th ones.
I do have a question though (highlight to read):
why is it that Draco is the true owner of the Elder Wand and not Snape??
That got me confused in the end.
I hope too that this encyclopedia will happen sometime in the (near) future.
I wanna learn more about the HP world and it'd also be nice to learn more about this "19 years later period". ;)
edit: nevermind, I found why Draco was the true owner of the Elder Want, read here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20035573/
that was fun, I felt like I was reading code or something lol :)
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I finished the book today. The ending was really great. I loved the feeling it was always gonna happen something, you know, that kind of insecurity and danger, mostly where they camp in many places. But the best was when they got to Hogwarts. McGonagall's part has moved me. She's always been one of my favourite characters.
But I have a question. The last chapter is 19 years after "Voldy"'s -lol- death, and Teddy is supposed to be learning in Hogwarts, but education period ends when you are about 17, so, what the hell is he doing there?
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oh i dont think he was studying there... he was just there to see off Veronique(that was the name right?)... i think... and hence the good bye
"snogging"
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I just wish the ending was longer- like we knew what happened to all the other characters, like George. That would have been fun =]
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I think she did that because she maybe has in mind writing another things about Harry Potter in the future.
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i cried most at hedwig's death and also when harry went into the forest
i did cry at dobby's death however, i was much more frightened thinking hermonine was dying so my tears were held back waiting for the notice that she was dead --- and then so relieved she was ok
i can't believe fred died - now all that's left is a one-earred george ... and when percy came back i was very tearful - infact i was talking about it the other day and started to cry again about percy
such a good book
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I really liked it,probably my favorite.My only complaint is that I think Harry should of stayed dead,him coming to life was pretty predictable.
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i just finshed the book yesterday. it took me 2 days to finish it.
honestly, i don't like the end of the book.
i would have liked harry dies ( and voldemort too of course)
but i'm so sad for lupin & tonks' son.... and themselves, fred, hedwige ( i almost cried).... and lily & snape story didn't really surprise me but i liked it
well i liked the book except the end... ( didn't like this happy end )
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i am definately one of thee biggeest harry potter fans of all time.
book seven was amazing,
and i know it sounds weird but like i cryed when people in the story died.
i dont know i guess i just get wrapped up in the book.
but anyways, the books are amazing and i loved book 7. :D
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That book consumed 2 and a half days of my life it was brilliant