So who has finished Harry Potter ***SPOILERS***Follow

I loved it. I was thrilled by the ending, and I was proud of myself for figuring out who R.A.B. was before I finished the 6th book.

I knew Harry wouldn't die, or it wouldn't have been suggested by Rowling a few months before the book came out. I was shocked by Lupin and Tonks, like everyone else.

I was convinced that Ravenclaw's Diadem was the tiara that Fleur wore at her wedding. And I was cheering Neville on so much by the end of the book.

And I literally laughed out load at Mrs. Weasley's, "NOT MY DAUGHER YOU *****!" line. SO out of character, and yet, it fit so well.

I was a little upset with Ron and Hermione naming their child Hugo, though... And I wanted a little more info. on what George ended up doing after Fred's death.

All in all, I was very pleased by the ending, and I look forward to picking up book #1 and reading it all the way through. I especially can't wait until I have a kid and I can share these books with him/her.

I literally just put the book down for the final time. Amazing ending to an amazing series.

I enjoyed the fact that JK Rowling humanized Dumbledore with his faults. It was a clear lesson that grown ups dont know everything either. And that idols are rarely the perfection we make them out to be.

Having Kreacher become devillianized I thought was a nice touch as well. Looking back at book 5 I almost want to go reread it and see if there was any foreshadowing to this.

Dobbys death floored me. I dont know why, but I felt more pain for his death than any others. Having both Tonks and Lupin die with a newborn child stung too. I can see why Rowling went that way, but it still was harsher than I expected. I did expect one of them to die... just not both.

Snape, by far, was the most diversified, and unsung hero of the entire series. My heart ached for him while watching his memories along with Harry. The first one, the playground, was the most heart wrenching. I doff my hat to his character.

All in all it took me roughly just over half a day to finish the book. I wish it lasted longer, if only so that I had more to look forward to. It was a bittersweet moment, opening the book for the first time, knowing it would be the last of the series to read anew. But all good things come to an end, and I think the Harry Potter series could not have ended better

You don't read and you watch hot dog eating competitions.

If you remember the spoilers in the 4 years or more it takes the movie to come out you should be thankful.

I've just finished it as well, taking a 2 hour lunch break in order to do so!!

But it was well-worth it, and I was not disappointed. If I hadn't been sitting at my desk at work, I might have had tiny tears in my eyes as I closed it.

I agree with what most of you guys (and girls) said, especially Nightsindreams.

Dumbledore, despite his absence, was always present. In fact, through-out the series, he is a little like God, mysterious, frustratingly absent, and yet everything comes from him, and goes back to him.

Which is why no one in their right mind could think that Snape was really evil. Everything was set-up so that he would, in the end, turn out to be good. Not to blow my own trumpet, cos I'm not flexible enough to do that, but I knew that each time Snape was doing something "evil" (including killing Dumbledore), it was only to reinforce the illusion of his evilness, to the reader ofc, but also to Voldermort. But come on, Dumbledore trusted him despite everything bad he did, and if HP taught us anything, it's that Dumbledore is never wrong.

I also didn't mind that the battle between HP and Vodlemort was not "epic". The real battle between them took place in their hearts and souls. And you know, HP knows like 3 spells, and Voldermort 2, so the battle could never have been "epic" in terms of spell-casting. Aveda Kadevra, Expelliamus, and, erm, that other one, and that's pretty much it. So i thought it was fitting that the real battle was immaterial.

As for the deaths, I was pleasently surprised. No one "major" died. I really thought she'd kill Hermione or Ron, but that would've been a bit low.

Well, all in all, I'm happy. It was fun to read this series, and JK ended it fittingly. The cycle of life and death, the relationship between good and evil, the epic struggles, all the main elements of fantasy were there, wrapped up in quintessential English peculairites.





Edited, Jul 24th 2007 1:44pm by RedPhoenixxx

I've never read a HP book and only caught snips of the films but now I view ole Harry as if he was a lvl 3 AD&D magic-user.

"I know Magic Missile, Stinking Cloud and Featherfall!"

FTFY

YAY, I no longer need to fear the internet.


So I bought it(well...technically my girlfriend bought it for me because our ******* friends kept trying to spoil it for me) and read it from about 2AM tonight until just now.


Not bad. Not bad at all.


I couldn't put it down, haven't been able to do that with a book since I first read a Harry Potter book(when I picked up the 4th randomly when I was 14 and read the entire thing in a matter of hours).

I thought it ended well. I agree with most of the above. It seemed a bit idealistic to me that Harry, Ron and Hermione never kill (at least to my knowledge). Saving Draco from the fire - that's fine. But, for example, the two adult death eaters who attack them in the diner right after they flee the wedding: who knows how many people they killed after that? Okay - so they are supposed to be really pure. But then Harry uses crucio on that evil teacher and MacGonnagal uses the imperius curse as if they were on the subject of unforgivable curses, she would do one, too. And both were totally unnecessary. Of course, torture is always unnecessary - and evil.

Ok, that makes me feel better then, about George I mean. Although it ended well there was just something missing there.

I was more pissed off at the ending. It was so rushed and so choppy. It felt like she was more concerned with her deadline than she was with this story that she professed to love so much.

Other than that I LOVED it. I cried, I laughed. I bawled like a baby when Hedwig died.

Ya if they had actually lost the war and were all enslaved by Voldamort I bet they would really have been kicking themselves. If only we'd struck a deal with the goblins...or the elves...or the centaurs

Don't forget stupify!

I just finished the book a few minutes ago and I have to say I was a tad disappointed with the ending, having expected at least a duel of a couple pages between HP and V. Also I had to reread the part about Lupin and Tonks dying because I didn't even remember that happening.

I thought it was pretty funny that Bellatrix got her ish shoved in by Mrs. Weasly, but of course it was appropriate. I assume she used a killing curse on her, but I wasn't sure.

Also I have to agree that Snape was probably the biggest hero of all (next to Harry).

Someone told me that Hermione dies (keep in mind that I had like 60 pages to go before the end when I found that out.) and so now when I see them at work that person gets a smack to the head.

I think that's why she did it. She doesn't want to continue the story, and I don't think she's too keen on anyone else picking it up, either.