The whole point was that Harry finally got to be what he always wanted - normal. He has a family who loves him (the Weasley family! A big family too.)
Fred’s death was the worst, yes. Lupin’s was off screen, so it had no impact. It took my three reads through the page before I could believe Fred was dead.
I don’t suppose you’d change “readciton” to “reaction” in the title for me?
Sheesh, spellcheck, girl.
It’s just so weird for me. Almost ten years of waiting for the next book.
I wrote fanfic. I wrote fairly ok fanfic for a 16 year old girl. I was the most popular Harry Potter fanfiction author for a while, based on fanfiction.net’s statistics. I made some friends I still have and some I wish I had still. My siblings and I would read the books aloud together the day after they came out. I didn’t this year because I’m grown up and married and living far away but the other six all did.
Now I will have to go and write the stories I like, since there is no other author I can rely on to give me the stories I crave. Well, she inspired my writing once. Maybe this time I can actually write my own world rather thank borrowing hers.
Here’s to you, Jo Rowling, and thanks.
True enough, just really my own expectations were different than the author's. The only real hanging string, actually, are the Dursleys. I really would have liked to have known what happened to them in the end, even a little teaser about Harry having to write Dudley when he got home would have been nice.
Don't get me wrong though, highly enjoyed the book. Really didn't expect her to leave the door open for more books in the universe, and quite pleased she did.
It took away the impact for me that Fred and George weren’t together, but that also removed my “If one goes, they both go.” prediction, because Percy did what I would have expected George to do.
Tonks’ actions really seemed wrong to me. As a mother, I would not have put myself in danger knowing my child would be left alone.
I wanted to know what happened to Luna in the epilogue, and whether Minerva was headmistress.
Someone predicted Minerva was a Death Eater, but I knew that couldn’t be right, and actually her screaming first when she thought Harry was dead was heartwrenching.
And I KNEW that Snape was an unregistered animagi, the bat references were just too pointed.
As I told my daughter: "toldja so." Personal family history (see my last) made it an obvious death. I was merely waiting for it to happen. It happened a lot later than I expected, actually: Rowling might have done better to kill him earlier, so as to rachet up the Weasley family tension ... to make Ron's choice that much harder, for example.