Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - the SPOILER thread!

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agree with MadEyemartha that the last chapter was tacked on in a very last minute way.

But to finish evreyone stories would be lovely, more about Neville and Luna especially. Not to mention poor old George.

It's great the way she does that isn't it.
I wondered at the time too if the spiders were rescuing Hagrid or not.

If they took him to V why didn't he kill him??

Yeah I can see what you mean about the Room of Requirement but I still think it a weakness. V thinks no-one else has such an in-depth knowledge of the castle as he does, yet Dumbledore knew about the room - in a very early book he mentioned how he happened upon a bathroom he didnt know was there. I thought when it was said that the diadem was in a part of the castle no-one knew about, Harry was going to discover somewhere new.

But I agree about JK's strength being in the fact that she throws in tiny clues in earlier books. The minute I read where the diadem was, I had to pick up Book 6 and find the part when it is mentioned as a throw away comment - it is exciting seeing how she has told us where the diadem is but we have no idea!

If you really want to know..............

NO

sorry, yes, thats what I mean..does he die? I'm assuming yes but?

Ah Bless im Martha

I think you'd have to pass that off as his sheer arrogance (Voldemort and the Room of Requirement I mean). Didn't quite ring true though.

I thought the epilogue seemed very tacked on and rushed - though I was glad it was there as I do like a happy ending. Hope she really does do an encyclopaedia because I would love to know what they all got up to in the intervening years. I thought Harry might play Quidditch for England - I remember a line about him being better than Charlie Weasley who could have played for England if he'd wanted to.

Also wanted to know how on earth George got on without Fred

Oh and the sword - I think someone said (miles down this thread) how did Neville get the sword when Griphook made off with it at Gringotts? I assumed it came out of the sorting hat - like it did in the COS - the sorting hat can make it materialise when a Gryffindor is in need. Apologies if someone's already said that - thread's too long to read now!

I had to bite my tongue as I finished it the day it came out but it took ds1 5 days to read it - he came dashing downstairs to tell me "I told you Harry was going to die! You said he wasn't! I was right and you were wrong!" then half an hour later came down again to say "oh, he didn't!"

Fawke, hadn't thought of it like that.
He asked for somewhere to hide it and maybe that's what everyone else asked for too.

He always was arrogant and thought he was special. He probably thought no one there at the time would be able to find it. Or maybe he assumed it was full of stuff cos that's what he needed. That is after all the nature of the room.

I love that Harry saw the Vanishing cabinet and the Diadem when he went in, but didn't realise. I love those little bits she throws in that you don't notice til later.

She is so good at stuff like that.

because harry found the loop hole and asked the room to find him what ppl where hiding.......it could have been an empty rom that v put the horcrux in iyswim

Oh yes that reminds me: what on earth gave V the impression he was the only one to find the Room of Requirement? When Harry entered it we were told it was full of possessions that people had been hiding "for centuries". So V must have seen the same thing. What made him think only he could find it?

no i still say that she should have wrote another chapter to let us all know life was like for them all after voldermort was killed,and the epilogue just felt really rushed........she nurtured every book and kind of dismissed the end,well thats wot i think anyway

Hi i went back to mrs weasley's link today and on it it there was a page (2nd interview with today) to were jk gave you the orianal(sp?) ending were scar is the last word ... but i carn't get it to download and just wounderd if anyone had read it and would be willing to let me know please!

I have to say that when I first read the book I was a tad disappointed (not sure if this was the effect of the epilogue or the fact I had finished reading the last book IYSWIM ).

I think with the book was so intense that I wanted the epilogue to be as intense. But now, nearly a week later I actually really like the epilogue.

Respect Califrau - twice in a week!!!

I also enjoyed Draco's story, I like the fact that he sorta got what was coming to him but seems to have learnt the error of his ways by acknowledging Harry at the end.

I was very disappointed by the epilogue.
Bet you any thing that James' middle name was Fred
Bit rose tinted, but I think she did that on purpose tho.

silly epilogue - all very smultsy.

I thought it was a bit crap expecially the ending

I thought it was a bit crap expecially the ending

Califrau "Arrogant tosser. Serves him right "

Well Said
'ear 'ear LOL

I thought that the diadem was not cursed due to V's arrogance that he alone was "special" enough to have found the Room Of Requirement, therefore he didn't feel the need to bother with any further protection for his Horcrux.

Agree though, Dumbledore's Girl, that it would be wrong for Harry to survive dark magic that had killed the greatest wizard alive, so they all had to be a bit easier to conquer.

I loved the fact that Harry, Ron, Hermione and Neville each killed a Horcrux - I felt in a way that this was showing that friendship wins, over V having no friends, just people who suck up to him to try and take in some of his power, or because they are too scared to not suck up to him. Also loved the diminishing of Lucius Malfoy - would love to know what happened to him next.

Thanks for explaining about the blood and the curses on the horcruxes. I still think it is a bit weak. I mean, Dumbledore got the really complicated ones didn't he? And the ones that incurred fatal curses. The others were not so well protected and I think that was because JK knew damn well that Harry could not be shown to overcome as complex magic as Dumbledore. I think that is a weakness in the plot really.....

But I still liked the book!

You mean does he die??

Do you really want to know??