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.
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So where did Dumbledore get a pet phoenix, anyway? Some bloke in the Hog’s Head?
But he was still a boring twit, when he appears in the epilogue.
“Random things like that stick with kids. You’ll be dead for 30 years and she’ll have that memory pop into her head and smile.”
Wow, you really know how to cheer a guy up. I was kinda hoping to stick around for a while. :-)
OK, I read the book, and am still digesting it (which is why I’m on this thread). Somebody remind me, how did Neville get Godric’s Sword? The last thing I remember about it before then was Griphook snatching it at Gringotts. Am I just having a brain fart? Or was Neville maybe able to summon it like Harry had in CoS because he was at Hogwarts and was a true Gryffindor? I would just go check in the book, except now my wife’s got a death grip on it.
In case nobody has answered you yet, she had. In OOtP, after HP's interview came out in The Quibbler, the teachers displayed their approval in various ways. During HP's Divination class, which was being overseen by the evil Umbridge, Trelawney weepingly told the class that HP wasn't about to die, he would become the youngest ever Minister of Magic, and he would have 12 kids. I thought it was hilarious.
Speaking of Umbridge...I know Sirius was certainly right in saying that the world wasn't divided up between good people and Death Eaters, but Umbridge's continued support of the Ministry--fervent support--well, she may not have been a DE but she certainly was in collusion with them. I was really looking forward to seeing her die.
Maybe the hat is a Horcrux of Gryffindor's. Now we can speculate whatever we want and never be proven wrong--how liberating!
I felt the same way about Rita Skeeter... would have really liked to have seen her get some kind of comeuppance.
- Considering Trelawney’s wrong prophecies, I’d take that one with a huge grain of salt.... (That entire Epilogue seemed very out of place.)
- As for Umbridge, etc. I thought that Rowlings’ treatment of a wizarding society warped by fear, cowardice, and petty hate was right on. To me, the whole atmosphere seemed alot like what it might have been like to live in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. The chapter in the ministry got my blood boiling (it was supposed to, no?). J.K. Rowlings was making a very valid point very well. For an evil regime to work, it not only needs the true believers (Beatrix), but also bureaucrats like Umbridge (or Eichmann) willing to make the trains run on time.
It occurred to me when reading the ministry chapters that almost no one was willing to stand up for what was right... Not Umbridge’s employees, not the secretary who must of witnessed tons of vile hearings, not even the janitor whose wife was under investigation or even those being investigated.
Well, the Star Wars novels were awful, but many of the Star Trek (Original, of course!!) novels were excellent.
Gallagher is so funny.
"When yogurt goes bad, how can you tell?"
Oh... I haven't followed the fandom much at all, have their been accusations of Mary-Sue-ism?
True, but there are also the regular folks who are scared of the ones in charge, so they won't say anything against the regime.
I need to re-read the battle scene. I was pushing to get through and totally missed Tonks and Lupin.
And, how did Neville get the sword?
In fact, the whole Epilogue seemed like a piece of fanfiction that a fifteen or sixteen year old might write. Better grammar and more coherent writing of course.. but you could probably do a quick Google search and find hundreds of similar Harry Potter endings out on the web.
Let's not forget, however, that these books are written for children.
My theory all along has been that she wouldn't kill Harry off for that reason.
Yep, definitely a LOL moment right at the end.
Then the fun began. I walked in to the house with the sealed copy, handed it to my HP maniac daughter, and said, "Here, I managed to find one, but you can't open it - it's a collector's edition". I only let her go nuts for a half a minute or so before I pulled out the other copy :o).
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