How you folks could read the entire thing in such a short time span is truly amazing to me!
Are you kidding?!
Some of us have waited YEARS to find this out!!
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallow-Warning-Spoilers May be Discussed Here!
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Big Tex
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CaptainSchmideo
MASSIVE SPOILERS!!!!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!!!!
I thought the death of Voldemort was a bit underwhelming, not very spectacular after all the buildup. The "who owns the wand" resolution was a little too much like a courtroom trick in a Perry Mason episode.
And I thought the offstage way that Tonks' and Lupin's death were done was pretty lame. Don't introduce characters, get people to like them, and then kill them when we aren't looking.
The deaths that made me upset were George's and Dobby's. There's going to be a lot of kids crying over this for the next few weeks. Mrs. Weasley calling Bellatrix LeStrange a "BITCH" was very satisfying, indeed.
Did you notice that Harry did not personally destroy any horcruxes in this book? Although he destroyed the diary in "Chamber of Secrets," everyone else gets a shot this time. Way to go, Neville! Make your Gran proud!
I was surprised that a character that was so far in the background, he was almost wallpaper, turned out to be the brother of Albus Dumbledore. This is too much like "Leia is Luke's sister".
The torch that Snape was carrying for Lily was a surprise. I knew that Snape had to be working undercover all this time, and I figured out back in "Half-Blood Prince" that he killed Dumbledore to prevent Draco Malfoy from "going completely over."
The epilogue was warm and fuzzy, and pretty much guarantees that there will not be anymore tales of young Harry, Ron, and Hermione. There would be little suspense derived at this point.
I don't know if you saw this, but about a month ago, Keith Olberman on MSNBC's countdown presented his theory on how the story ends. He wasn't 100% correct, but he did guess that the scar was a horcrux as well, and that there was no way that Harry was going to be killed. His theory was that Harry would have to destroy the scar himself, but that it would permanently remove his magic powers, a symbolic death that would save his friends.
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hilannj
I finished it at 6:00 am this morring and then had to get up for work at 8:30.. I am soooo sleepy now
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Elsewhere
Ok, I'm confused. Is Harry dead or not? Is he really dead or just "movie/book" dead and could come back?
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darth frosty
"Did you notice how he called Voldemort, "Riddle" at the end? He was Voldemort's equal."
That was great to see.
"What did you think about the entire chapter of "King's Cross"? Did you find it believable?
I really like how that developed just a slight glimpse into wizard afterlife. The chapter reminded me of the opening scen in the 3rd matrix movie where NEO was traped at the train station (only better executed that in the matrix.) -
TD
My daughter came home from a book fair in the third grade with the first book. Since then, I've enjoyed the books almost as much as she has. I thought the latest was a great ending to a great series. I especially enjoy how Rowling can take motifs from other stories and weave them into something new.
Elsewhere: Harry ends up just fine.
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BlackSwan of Memphis
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I can't believe she killed Fred and Dobbie!!!!
And Lupin and Tonks!!!That broke my heart. She created another little "harry". A little wizard with no parents. Poor kid.
But Fred...now that was not something I saw coming.
I had figured Snapes was a good guy all along because of the way that he reacted to Harry on a number of occasions, and Dumbledore seemed to good to be true. So, I wasn't completely surprised by those two. What did get me was the way that Snapes was still so much in love with Lily. And that Harry names his child after him. Pretty wild.Now the way you know who dies, interesting the way she pulled it together, maybe it was a bit Perry Mason like, clever still.
***********************now what am I going to read?
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Paksen
Heya,
I work at Barnes and Noble and worked the Harry Potter party, that was the most INSANE night. Didn't get home till 4:30 in the morning. When the last Book came out 2 years ago their was actually a fist fight in one of the isles over who got the book. And this is the best part ( I'm sorry I laughed my butt off) an elderly woman got knocked into a Harry Potter book display. It was priceless!
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Littledreamfaery
I got my copy at 9 in the morning on saturday, buy post of course :P, and finished it at 7 in the evening on saturday... with breaks inbetween as well, think I did pretty good. :D loved the book, I think the last chapter was sweet, although felt sad because of some of the people who died, but the last chapter finished it nicely. :)
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desbah
found a spoiler on the Epilogue
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/199593231
- Wild about Harry
Finished ‘Potter’? Rowling tells what happens next
Exclusive: Author gives details on events after the book’s final epilogue
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July 26: J.K. Rowling talks to TODAY's Meredith Vieira about the final "Harry Potter" book and the aftermath of certain characters.Today show
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By Jen Brown TODAYShow.com contributor Updated: 5:38 a.m. MT July 26, 2007
Spoiler alert: This story reveals some key plot points in the final Harry Potter book. So if you've haven't finished the book, J.K. Rowling asks that you not read this story.
If you found the epilogue of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” rather vague, then J.K. Rowling achieved her goal.
The author was shooting for “nebulous,” something “poetic.” She wanted the readers to feel as if they were looking at Platform 9¾ through the mist, unable to make out exactly who was there and who was not.
“I do, of course, have that information for you, should you require it,” she told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira rather coyly in her first interview since fans got their hands on the final book.
Ummm … yes, please!
advertisementRowling said her original epilogue was “a lot more detailed,” including the name of every child born to the Weasley clan in the past 19 years. (Victoire, who was snogging Teddy — Lupin and Tonks’ son — is Bill and Fleur’s eldest.)
“But it didn’t work very well as a piece of writing,” Rowling said. “It felt very much that I had crowbarred in every bit of information I could … In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.”
But now that the seventh and final novel is in the hands of her adoring public, Rowling no longer has to hold back any information about Harry Potter from her fans. And when 14 fans crowded around her in Edinburgh Castle in Scotland earlier this week as part of TODAY’s interview, Rowling was more than willing to share her thoughts about what Harry and his friends are up to now.
Harry, Ron and Hermione
We know that Harry marries Ginny and has three kids, essentially, as Rowling explains, creating the family and the peace and calm he never had as a child.As for his occupation, Harry, along with Ron, is working at the Auror Department at the Ministry of Magic. After all these years, Harry is now the department head.
“Harry and Ron utterly revolutionized the Auror Department,” Rowling said. “They are now the experts. It doesn’t matter how old they are or what else they’ve done.”
Meanwhile, Hermione, Ron’s wife, is “pretty high up” in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, despite laughing at the idea of becoming a lawyer in “Deathly Hallows.”
“I would imagine that her brainpower and her knowledge of how the Dark Arts operate would really give her a sound grounding,” Rowling said.
Harry, Ron and Hermione don’t join the same Ministry of Magic they had been at odds with for years; they revolutionize it and the ministry evolves into a “really good place to be.”
“They made a new world,” Rowling said.
The wizarding naturalistLuna Lovegood, the eccentric Ravenclaw who was fascinated with Crumple-Horned Snorkacks and Umgubular Slashkilters, continues to march to the beat of her own drum.
“I think that Luna is now traveling the world looking for various mad creatures,” Rowling said. “She’s a naturalist, whatever the wizarding equivalent of that is.”
Luna comes to see the truth about her father, eventually acknowledging there are some creatures that don’t exist.
“But I do think that she’s so open-minded and just an incredible person that she probably would be uncovering things that no one’s ever seen before,” Rowling said.
Luna and Neville Longbottom?
It’s possible Luna has also found love with another member of the D.A.When she was first asked about the possibility of Luna hooking up with Neville Longbottom several years ago, Rowling’s response was “Definitely not.” But as time passed and she watched her characters mature, Rowling started to “feel a bit of a pull” between the unlikely pair.
Ultimately, Rowling left the question of their relationship open at the end of the book because doing otherwise “felt too neat.”
Mr. and Mrs. Longbottom: “The damage is done.”
There is no chance, however, that Neville’s parents, who were tortured into madness by Bellatrix Lestrange, ever left St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies.
“I know people really wanted some hope for that, and I can quite see why because, in a way, what happens to Neville’s parents is even worse than what happened to Harry’s parents,” Rowling said. “The damage that is done, in some cases with very dark magic, is done permanently.”
Photos by Andrew Kandel for TODAYshow.com Rowling said Neville finds happiness in his grandmother’s acceptance of him as a gifted wizard and as the new herbology professor at Hogwarts.
The fate of Hogwarts Nineteen years after the Battle of Hogwarts, the school for witchcraft and wizardry is led by an entirely new headmaster (“McGonagall was really getting on a bit”) as well as a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. That position is now as safe as the other teaching posts at Hogwarts, since Voldemort’s death broke the jinx that kept a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor from remaining for more than a year.
While Rowling didn’t clarify whether Harry, Ron and Hermione ever return to school to finish their seventh year, she did say she could see Harry popping up every now and again to give the “odd talk” on Defense Against the Dark Arts.
More details to come? Rowling said she may eventually reveal more details in a Harry Potter encyclopedia, but even then, it will never be enough to satisfy the most ardent of her fans.
“I’m dealing with a level of obsession in some of my fans that will not rest until they know the middle names of Harry’s great-great-grandparents,” she said. Not that she’s discouraging the Potter devotion!
“I love it,” she said. “I’m all for that.”
