[TightyRighty]

FWIW, I agree with you on the death of Tonks. Her death really bothered me and I felt like it was done only to make the story come full circle. I understand that during a war everyone is at risk but there was plenty of death in the book to drive home that point.

What I found to be the REAL tragedy of this story was - that at 38 - Severus Snape died a virgin.

[null and void]

HEY! I got married at 38...

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

What I find amazing about Snape is that he was named Potions Professor at the very young age of 21. He must have received quite a recommendation from Slughorn! ;-)

Speaking of Slughorn, my wife pointed out this: in HBP, Slughorn keeps saying that Harry seems to be a natural at potions, just like his mother was. Now that we know from book 7 that Lily was Severus' best friend at Hogwarts, perhaps she was such a "natural" at potions because she was getting help just like Harry was, from Severus (she directly, Harry from the HBP's potion book.)

Makes me wonder if Slughorn knew what was happening all along, and was secretly being sarcastic when he kept praising Harry...

[Tax-chick]

What I found to be the REAL tragedy of this story was - that at 38 - Severus Snape died a virgin.

Sigh. I so enjoyed having seven really long books to read without that kind of cr*p.