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.
Especially since Harry himself had faced the Dark Lord eight separate times. (by my count anyway: As a baby, “The Sorcerer’s Stone,” “The Chamber of Secrets,” “The Goblet of Fire,” “The Order of the Phoenix” and 3 times in “The Deathly Hallows.”)
It’s like the edited out too much in the end.
But she DID leave herself an opening for a sequel.
Harry put the Death Wand back in Dumbledore's tomb. Ron and Hermione know where it is, which provides three people who can let it slip. Once a Dark Wizard knows about it, and that he can have the most powerful wand in the wizarding world by digging it out and then killing Harry, you have the plotline for a new novel
Uh oh, I've let too much of the real me spill out onto this board...
;-)
There's also a potential for tales of James, Rose, Albus, Hugo, Lily and Cousin Teddy.
I totally agree. I think JK Rowling left out a lot of details in the epilogue so that she can continue the series eventually. Also, when I read the last few pages of the last chapter, I thought immediately that she was setting up a sequel. All the talk about the stone he left in the forest and the Elder Wand seemed out of place and insignificant for the critical last few pages for an epic journey that spans 7 books over the course of 7 years.
The last few pages of the story after Voldemort was killed seemed very rushed to me. Basically, Harry kills Voldemort and goes upstairs with Hermoine and Ron, they chat a bit, and then it's over. It's like JK Rowling ran out of steam.
I don't think we've seen the last of Harry Potter and his pals.
Ah, but as a personal reminder of Voldemort and the Dark Side, Malfoy had to be a dragon.
Rowling had strongly hinted that knowing the Bible would tell you how it would end, and there's one place only in the New Testament where dragons are mentioned.
Look at Revelation 12 and subsequent. If you want the plot of Book 7, there it is....
I suspect she is planning a series based on the kids.........who was Victoire? Bill and Fleur’s child? And Draco’s son Scorpius? What’s with that name? LOL
I think it was implied because 1) they weren't mentioned and 2) Dudley's recognition of Harry before they left.
They never figured into the action in the wizarding world.
Undefeatable in a duel. But Grindelwald stole it. Dumbledore handed it over to Malfoy. So apparently you have to win it by something other than a straight-up duel. And that's the point, I suppose: there are things stronger and more effective than the pure force that the Elder Wand represents.
kinda like the Vince Fosters of the wizarding world...
Ooo...I'll have to go back and check, but I think you are right.
By happy circumstance, I had just finished Book 1 before I started reading Book 7. It was amazing to me how many of the events in the last book referred back to the first. There were so many of them....
I was seriously struck by this when they cam to the riddle at the door of Ravenclaw's common room -- "What came first, the phoenix or the flame?" And the answer: "a circle has no beginning or end."
Draco was named after a constellation and one of his aunts was as well. (Andromeda) Scorpio (Scorpius) is a constellation. Must be a star thing amongst the Black family.
Nope ... It's Luna and Dean Thomas. They were becoming an item at Shell Cottage, and they left the common room for the last battle, hand in hand.
That seems about right, really.
Yes, every Black who is named in the books (except Narcissa?) is named for a star or constellation.
But he's clearly vulnerable in this book -- Harry is in his mind all the time; Voldemort's occlumency is not up to snuff, his emotions having got the better of him. He's so exultant about "winning," that he forgets to check anybody else. His carelessness and lack of control did him in.
And as the book said, Narcissa knew that lying to Voldemort was the only way to get back to her son, whom she loved. Her love for Draco was stronger than her fear of Voldemort. It would have made her lie impenetrable. And so, interestingly, it was love even within his inner circle that helped to do him in.
The name “Albus Severus” had me in tears... is that sappy or what?
You don’t know how feverently I was hoping Snape’s name would get cleared... that was a fabulous tribute.
And Alan Rickman will always be Snape to me. He’s been doing a fabulous job. I can’t picture anyone else in the role.
I hadn't thought about that. And in both cases, they are accompanied most of the way by the comforting presence of friends.
Yes, but Harry is not Jesus Christ. He was willing to die for his friends -- we can have no greater love than that -- and Dumbledore said he had the choice to go on, or go back.
Rather than go on, where it was easy, Harry chose to go back, where it was hard, because the job was not yet finished. No greater love....
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