Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - the SPOILER thread!

I know what you mean I always said I didnt want 1 twin to go.

I might be shouted at here but I think I'd have rather Arthur died & then Fred & George would still be together running their shop.

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apparently in JKR's Big plan she was going to kill off Arthur in book 5 but couldnt do it

..was going to end with the word "scar" but didn't. Fabulous book - couldn't put it down.

If there is anything you didn't understand, there is a good run-down of the story on Wikipedia.

am i allowed in without an HP name???!

ooh i loved it although could have done with a glossary of terms as i kept getting confused and am still mulling over the events of the book to try and understand what really happened!
loved the last chapter though, made me all teary...especially when i realized in this book that harry is only a year younger than me! And now i am having kids too...

yes i think i will re-read all of them to understand them all better now!

'scar'

can anyone remind me of the word JKR said the book would finish on (but then it didn't)?

I think I'm going to keep my name, I like it!

I've lent my copy of DH to a friend so once I've got it back then I think I'll reread them all.

Not sure when to change mine back. Maybe when I've reread the whole series again and am out of HP mode.

just finished PS. going to start chamber of secrets. Dd has dibs on DHallows once she gets back from grannys.

I can't change my name 'back'.. I've always been a snape -

I'm going to start the series again once I've read Dh for the second time. I read all up to book 7 in the weeks before it was published and then read books 6 and 7 again so once I read the whole series as one I'll be a bit Pottered out I think.

Im starting the series again from COS as DP is taking a ridiculously long time reading PS.

I've started reading the whole lot again, I'm going to enjoy actually knowing what things mean and where they are leading!

I thought the Percy thing was a bit something and nothing - he confesses he was a prat and that was it? After everything that was made of his attitude in the previous books I expected a bit more - even if he wasn't going to be killed I expected him to play a greater role in things, to prove his worth sort of thing.

I've started again too....altho have to say find the first few chapters tedious (if necessary) compare to later ones.

I've nearly finished my second reading, I am so sad

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I think that Hagrid was supposed to die too, I was sure that he had when he got dragged off by the accramantula, his love monsters being his downfall and I'm sure that Lupin and Tonks replaced him on the roll call of death.

Did anyone else notice Dean and Luna holdings hands as they ran off into battle, maybe that's what happened to Luna? She lined in bliss with Dean..... I love happy endings can you tell?

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I really thought Percy was the Weasley that would die and I thought it would be to save his father. It's obvious that there were too many of them for them all to survive.

If you look on the obsessed thread Mrs Weasley has posted that JKR has said she's going to write an encyclopeadia (sp) which gives back stories and tells what happened to characters that survived and what happened in the wider wizarding world.

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Thought it was great that Percey c ome right to join the family before Fred died.

Yup, I am convinced that they replaced Hagrid too

So when do you think we have to drop our HP naems or can i kepp mine for ever????????

I do think that it was hinted that Snape loved Lily - particularly in the way he hated James. JKR has jealousy as an irrational cause of hatred a lot in the books (see Ron's reaction to Krum and Harry's to Dean). Also, it had to be about love - it's an ongoing theme throughout the books that V doesn't understand love or what people will do for it, so of course he would never expect Snape to be betraying him out of love for someone else.

I would also have preferred a longer epilogue, giving more details on all the characters who survived, but I did like what was there. I was glad Harry had made a normal, happy life for himself.

I also wondered if Remus and Tonks were the two people JKR killed after she decided she couldn't kill someone else (who I'm convinced was Hagrid) which is why their deaths are just mentioned rather than described, although I did also think Remus might be a gonner after he made Harry godfather to Teddy.