Posted on 07/21/2007 5:18:11 PM PDT by JenB
So you finally know what happens to Harry. All our questions are answered. Or not. What are your reactions? Whose death hurt the most? Do you want more, and about whom?
SPOILERS are ok on this thread! You have been warned!
Wow. It's over.
Heh, good point!
Dumbledore said that of course this all happened within Harry's head, but that didn't mean it wasn't real or words to that effect, confirming your take on it.
Now we know why Slughorn kept telling Harry in Half-Blood Prince that Lilly was a genius at Potions. She obviously had help from her bestest friend.
I still don't know what to think. I'm awfully surprised at the number of characters killed off, since JKR herself had said that two would die. Seemed more like two per chapter. The deaths of Hedwig, Dobby and Fred were the most emotional for me. The deaths of both Lupin and Tonks just p!ssed me off.
I'm pleased to say that I was right about a whole lot of things. Proof of Snape as a good guy being passed along through a memory was something I have asserted would happen as soon as I was done with HBP. I knew Dumbledore was really dead, and I knew his rantings and ravings while drinking the Horcrux's protective potion would be explained. As soon as it was mentioned that Ravenclaw had a tiara, I knew it was the one in the Room of Requirement, NOT the Weasley heirloom. I was right about the locket.
I was WAY off about HP being a Horcrux, I insisted (rightly, as it turns out) that LV could not have had the time to turn HP into a Horcrux through spellwork. I accept JKR's explanation of how that happened, primarily because it's her story. Would I have written that differently? Probably, but it doesn't matter.
So what do we read now?
He did. He died looking into Lily's eyes.
I understood it to be the part of Voldemort’s soul that he had put into Harry as a horcrux.
I was really hoping that the epilogue would be the totally cliche, Hollywood-style "Where are they now?" of the characters, and that HP's future would be Minister of Magic and include twelve children, bringing Trelawney's number of accurate predictions up to three.
But I still found it creepy! ;)
Voldemort didn’t put his soul into Harry.....his soul was so unstable that it fractured when the curse rebounded against him, and it attached himself to the only living thing in the house....Harry. It wasn’t intentional.
To stress the most important lesson of the books, the lesson our left never seems to get, that evil is EVIL and that being good and innocent isn't enough to protect you from it. Kill the much loved innocent pet Hedwig, kill the happy go lucky Fred (and cut off George's ear), leave the baby an orphan (in spite of Harry's efforts to the contrary); she provides examples children should be able to understand. Alas some in the left never get this and are stuck, like Umbrage, giving pretty in pink news conferences.
I just gotta disagree! The oft-mentioned lead characteristic of a Hufflepuff is loyalty, and one thing this book showed (for me, at least) was that Hermione was, without question, the most loyal friend of HP's, without exception.
I actually think that Hermione is the perfect blend of the lead characteristics of the four houses. Clearly, she's intelligent and brave. Definitely loyal. She has also proven herself capable of some masterfully cunning quick-thinking, throughout all of the books.
I know a lot of freepers would have liked to see her as a Transfiguration teacher, but I think she would have made the perfect Hogwarts Headmistress.
She must have been a hell of an Occlumens, like Snape, if you think about it. Within a second of speaking with the very much alive HP, she turns around and lies to LV. It's been stressed a number of times how LV could almost always detect a lie--"The Dark Lord always knows!"
Countless stories over the next few months how Christians are protesting the series as being inappropriate for children, banning it from classrooms, forbidding it to their children, and trying to force their opinions on others. I wonder if they even actually investigate those stories anymore, or just copy and paste them into the newspaper by now?
As for the real question, I donno. I think I'm going to investigate some of the fanfic that's out there on the subject, and debate writing some of my own again.
As a guess, I'd say that's what Voldermort wanted to hear, what he expected to hear, so thus, that's what he heard. Anything else would have attracted his scrutiny.
But if Voldemort was anything, he was arrogant. Think about the arrogance and foolishness suggested by him putting the diadem in the Room of Requirement.
I don't think LV took the time to second guess his assumptions. It certainly didn't seem that he took the time to look into Narcissa's eyes.
I agree and was somewhat disappointed that didn't happen. However, none of the professors or Headmaster/mistress's seem to have had families of their own. I'd rather see Hermione (all of them, really) with a family.
Did she predict the number of Harry's children or him being Minister?
I noticed that, too.
Ah, did you get that from the description of his hair color as a baby?
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