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Post by Sailor Earth on Jul 23, 2007 2:59:19 GMT -5
A place for those who have read it to discuss it... I'm not sure what to think about it all really, hah! The book has messed with my mind (or to put it in a different way, to quote Sailor Slytherin, it has f**ked with my mind )
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Post by tbird on Jul 23, 2007 13:11:31 GMT -5
Well, I'll kick it off shall I?
Personally I thought it was a pretty phenomenal book but it had several bad points as well as lots of good ones.
The main good thing I loved about the book was the way Snape was revealed to have been the real hero of the whole saga, rather like Samwise in the LOTR movies really. Sails, what you said about him wanting to look into Lily's eyes again, one last time, really affected me. Snape is such a tragic character and when I reread the books later in my life, I will get so much more from all his actions leading up until his death.
The main bad thing - that Harry didn't die. He should have. J K Rowling played it too safe. Either that or one of Ron and Hermione should have died. It kind of seemed like none of the major players got that hurt in the end. I know that a lot of characters we were really fond of did die, but I really expected someone really big to go, like Dumbledore did at the end of HBP.
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Post by Sailor Earth on Jul 23, 2007 19:13:03 GMT -5
I was expecting Hagrid or Ron to cop it actually... I didn't want Harry to die though, hah I'm one of those loser people, LOL! Nah... I think that was done fairly well actually, that what wound up being killed was the Voldemort soul - besides - Harry had to finish the job after all The books are titled "Harry Potter" - not "Neville Longbottom" Snape, aaah Snapey Snape. I'm so relieved that he did turn out to be good in the end. I was really afraid that he'd turn out to be a boring 2D "badguy", but he was one of the most complicated characters in the whole series. I liked the 7 Harrys, that was pretty cool. That better be in the movie Special effects galore! Plus 7 Dans on screen, what's not to love?
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Post by tbird on Jul 24, 2007 3:56:33 GMT -5
Oh yeah! I'd be well up for 7 lots of Dan in a movie! Do you know, I think I would have been really really upset if Hagrid had of died. I'm not that fond of him but he just seems so indestructable. I was surprised that Voldemort had Hagrid in the forest with him. Do you think that was just so they didn't get attacked by anyone?
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Post by Sailor Earth on Jul 24, 2007 4:30:07 GMT -5
Perhaps it was to do with the spiders? I'm not sure... I was surprised that he survived that actually.
I was hoping the spiders would make a reappearance actually, but that they'd be on the good side...
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Post by tbird on Jul 24, 2007 4:34:30 GMT -5
you see I love how Rowling brings in old things from previous books like that! I would never have imagined that the spiders would have got involved, but when they did it was like "Oh Yeah!"
One thing that was weird about this book was how quite a big portion of it was reading stuff written in newspapers or books. That was odd.
But I loved how Aberforth came along and joined in at the end. All that stuff about Dumbledore's past was so interesting. It realy fleshed him out as a character.
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Post by Sailor Earth on Jul 24, 2007 5:03:34 GMT -5
Yeah the newspaper/letters/books - that was quite interesting... And yeah, DD's past - turns out he wasn't as "good" as people would believe, hmm.... But he seemed to learn from his mistakes. That was so sad about his younger sister
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Post by tbird on Jul 24, 2007 5:08:44 GMT -5
All that stuff about Ariana was really unexpected wasn't it? What a tragic family he had.
And I think it was good that it turned out that Dumbledore wasn't the pure white as snow wizard people thought he was. Makes him much more real and believable.
AlthoughI must admit that when Harry was looking at Snape's memories in the pensieve and it was revealed that Dumbledore was planning for Harry to sacrifice himself, I was really angry at first!
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Post by Sailor Earth on Jul 24, 2007 6:09:50 GMT -5
Yeah I was a bit unsure about that, it seemed like all DD was doing was "training" him up to be the sacrifice - and even Snape appeared horrified by that.
But then it looks like Harry had to want to do it, and be willing to do it, and that's what helped in the long run.
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Post by tbird on Jul 24, 2007 6:25:03 GMT -5
That moment where he goes into the forest and calls up his mum, dad, Lupin and Sirius. Still breaks my heart just thinking about it.
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Post by Sailor Earth on Jul 24, 2007 6:26:18 GMT -5
Ooh yeah, that was pretty heartwrenching. Maybe that's why she killed off Lupin?
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Post by tbird on Jul 24, 2007 6:31:08 GMT -5
Maybe. But then I think that bit just shows how much Lupin meant to him which makes it worse that he didn't get a death scene. But then it did seem on the whole that all the book was seen either through the eyes of Harry or Voldemort and as Harry wasn't there when Lupin died, she thought it would've been odd to randomly have a scene without Harry or Voldemort in it?
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Post by Sailor Earth on Jul 24, 2007 6:38:03 GMT -5
Spose, in a way...... Aah well. It's her book, not mine I guess I'm just still sort of reeling from it that's all.
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Post by tbird on Jul 24, 2007 6:54:42 GMT -5
i'm not surprised. I've felt kind of empty since I finished reading it myself. I feel like I should be happy or something but I'm not. It's really affected me in a weird way.
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Post by Sailor Earth on Jul 24, 2007 7:00:14 GMT -5
Yeah me too Maybe it's the "no more HP" feeling, hmm...
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