Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - the SPOILER thread!

Yes definitely Ginny was going to pop Harry's little cherry!
I loved the bit though when Neville's gran arrived to fight. Just fab. Oh and the HEs appearing led by Kreacher was ace.

Hmm, yeah, his Gran was a bit mean wasn't she.

No that had to be just those 3.

Do you think if Harry and Ginny hadn't been interupted by Ron they would have had sex????

Should have locked the door

and im glad his grandmothers treating him with the love he deserves...took nearly dying to get it tho

lol i know......he was a real trooper bless him, i would have realy loved him to have gone on the journey with them to find the horcruxes actually

I thought he was funny with all his troublemaking in the name of the DA. And withstanding torture too.

i know neville really found his courage in this book.........shame there wasnt more of him in it really until the end.he was fab killing nagini and he deserved his moment

I was so upset at that bit I had to stop for a minute as couldn't see the page.

My book has a big tear splodge on the page when Dobby died

But Neville killed the last Horcrux. I loved that he was truly Gryffindor enough to pull the sword out of the hat.

If Harry had Avada'd V in the forest he wouldn't have died then anyway as Nagini was still alive. He died later that way as all his Horcruxes were gone.

How cool is it that we guessed that one

Can't remember if it was this thread or the other one where someone asked about the Forest thing.

i know i literally had to stop reading for a good 20 mins when i found out that harry had to die.uncontrolable sobbing actually dp thought a was a complete fruit

I made sure I was on my own when I read it. DH was a darling and had the girls for hours at the weekend so I could read.
I knew I would cry. He could tell I had been when he came to see how I was getting along.
He looked at me like I was mad, then said he loved how I cry over a book

oh i agre i absolutely loved that mrs weasley bumped bellatrix off......i just didnt expect her to be doing it(was hoping neville would get his own back}

I heard somewhere that she'd mapped all the books out by chapter before she really starting writing the first one.
Not sure how true that is tho.

I agree fawkeoff

I cried my eyes out on the train into Waterloo during rush hour when Harry goes into the wood to die. Felt v. silly. My fave bits were Kingsley's patronus at the wedding, Mrs W killing Bellatrix, Harry digging Dobby's grave, Snape looking into Harry's eyes and Neville.

i dont really think snape hated harry........i think that he didnt want to see lily in him as it hurt him too much....so it was easier to dislike the james in him iyswim

I stayed up till 1am and finally finished it on wednesday night. I thought it was fantastic and tied up most loose ends. I didn't cry at any of the deaths either, I thought there was going to be a major character death... was a little sad about Dobby though

I'm just half way through re-reading philosopher's stone and can't believe how many clues there are to the last book.
Does anyone know how much of the other books JK planned before they were written?
I know about the last paragraph etc but I wonder whether she had the last book and first book and then the other books were thought of/written later.
The bit where Snape asked Harry to look into his eyes was the only part that bought a tear to my eye too!

sorry BOM you got their first

pertunia is heard in an earlier book talking about that awful boy which at the time everyone assumes is james but it turns out to be Snape

Don't think it was a flash of his life before he dies, DD told him he has to tell Harry right before he has to face V so that he can do it. Or he might not be brave enough. I think Snape must have wanted Harry to know that he had loved his mother and that he was good really. I loved DD saying about not telling about the best of him.

Petunia says in OOTP that she heard about Dementors when Lily was talking to that awful boy, which I guess you are supposed to think is James, but was actually Snape.

Don;'t think Phineus was a Death Eater cos he was before that time, he is Sirius's Great Grandfather or something, but he was in Slytherin. The only Slytherin Headmaster, before Snape I think.

I found it very touching when Hermione said what she had done to her parents.

"His story was sad. Explains who that awful boy was, and why Petunia was so bitter."

ooh - had we heard mention of him from Petunia before?

I wonder if Snape's portrait wasn't there because he had been sacked (according to the chapter title) before his death.

**I would guess the portraits are just echoes of the people who they were at the time as well. So Snape would still hate Harry?

Odd how photographs don't work the same way - they're just moving pictures you can't hear them speak (otherwise Harry would have been able to have had a heart to heart with his parents' pictures in the photo album)

Band of Muggles: I think that would have been a really nice touch to have snapes portrait there. Why not? Wasn't Nigellus a death eater. Even if some people still think snape was bad they have bad guys in there too. Would have been good to see Harry and Snape resolving things at the end.

Obviously it has to be portraits doesn't it. You can't communicate with the characters in photos etc. Wouldn't it be funny if you could just scribble and image of someone and talk to it. Perhaps even draw on a steamed up window. And then the "person" could complain about how unflattering the image was.

Oh and that reminds me. Wanted to comment on the snapes brink of death memories. Guess it is a wizarding take on "life flashes before your eyes" !