[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

OK, guess I’ll weigh in with my thoughts.

It took me about 12 hours to read the book, (not counting the 4 hour nap from 3 am to 7 am) and I was ticked JK killed Hedwig and Mad-Eye right off the bat!

Then, I was ticked that she had Harry, Ron and Hermoine stumbling around for the middle half of the book. Don’t get me wrong, the chapter with Harry and Hermoine visiting Godrick’s Hollow was pretty good, but did she really need them to go stumbling around the woods all the rest of the time?

Then, she had the nerve to go and kill off Dobby! And then when the action finally started to pick up with the battle at Hogwarts, she was offing so many characters I thought the title of the book should have been Harry Potter and the Final Bloodbath!

Anyway, I do have one question. In the final showdown between Harry and Voldy, there in the Great Hall, Harry just gets through telling Voldy that the reason he couldn’t get the wand he got from DD’s hand to work correctly was because he (Voldy) didn’t have the Elder wand. Draco took it from DD during the battle at the top of the Astronomy Tower and that since Harry took the very same wand from Draco he now possessed the Elder Wand. Then they both square off and the book says that “Avada Kedrava” and “Expelleramus” (SP???) were both uttered at the same time, but she didn’t indicate which one uttered which. So my question is,

Am I the only one who thinks that Harry threw the AK curse while Voldy was snookered by Harry into casting the Expelleramus charm thinking he could get the wand away from Harry?

Anybody?

[Tijeras_Slim]

Draco never physically posessed the Elder Wand, he merely became it’s “owner” by disarming Dumbledore in HBP.

[TalonDJ]

If I recall right is specifically said that Voldy was killed by his own reflected spell.

[schwing_wifey]

I feel certain that AK was said by Voldemort. He always went for the forbidden curses (and meant them). The only curse I remember Harry using was “Crucio” and exclaiming that its true they only work if you really mean it. (Can’t remember which fight it was though.)

Remember, Harry kept using “E” and kept getting told to stop using it because everybody else was trying to kill him. Harry really never wanted to kill anybody, even Voldemort in the end.... remember the “icky baby thing”? I think he was starting to feel sorry for Voldemort because he knew (finally) that he had all the power and protection thanks to love. Voldemort didn’t have a chance and Harry knew it.

[Mygirlsmom]

Interesting...but I think Voldy actually had physical posession of the Elder Wand, it just wouldn't recognize him as its master. He (Voldy) never quite got that and brushed it off as inconsequential because he always got what he wanted by force, never finesse.

I would much rather think that Harry didn't have to resort to a killing curse (yes, I know he "Cruciated" and "Imperiussed") but, as stated above, defeated evil without resorting to evil.

[TightyRighty]

Harry did Expelliarmus and then caught the wand like a true Seeker.

[Sloth]

Harry just gets through telling Voldy that the reason he couldn’t get the wand he got from DD’s hand to work correctly was because he (Voldy) didn’t have the Elder wand. Draco took it from DD during the battle at the top of the Astronomy Tower and that since Harry took the very same wand from Draco he now possessed the Elder Wand.

No, Malfoy's wand -- that Harry was wielding -- was hawthorn, not elder. Voldy *did* have the Elder Wand; he just wasn't master of it.