Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - the SPOILER thread!

I think it either needed to be a proper chapter or not there at all tbh

I love JKR's website it's fab.

I think im the only one who didn't mind the end bit i though it was good to create alot of thingd from imagination tbh.

Just a thought on the epilogue ...................................................... .................................................................................................... .

JKR wrote it first didn't she? So does it fit more closely with the tone of the first books? It doesn't sit so comfortably at the end of book 7 because the tone of the books changed so much. I think I'm groping in the dark for an excuse for it, but it sounds plausible to me ... I think!!

Have you guys gone to the official JKRowling site? There's some interesting titbits on there, particularly about the lack of relationship between Neville and Luna, and also about the inspiration for Gilderoy Lockheart. Am finding it fascinating reading

Maybe with regarts to the epilgue that JKR wrote, it be like that so that if she wanted to she could go back to it and do another book based on what went on in those 19 years.

My only wish in the book was that after Harry killed Voltermort that he went and saw Ginny. But I am a soppy old git.

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Me too

I was expecting either ron or hermoine to die

I thought that we had decided that the late to powers thing was just Rowling and red herrings?

Like................................................................................... ................................Harry not being a horcrux

(Did anyone else read it and just keep thinking "Harry as a horcrux!!!" Not "Oh yes, so he is", it was the exact wording from here Have just reminded DH about the goats so he has it in mind )

wasnt it neville that was late in getting his powers?????i remember it from the first book explaining while he was on the train

nevilles grandma put 2 death eaters in hospital and went on the run so there was no way she was a squib

i knew from the order of the phoenix book that snape loved lily..........she was the only one that went to his aid when james had him upside down in the air while sirius and lupin were laughing,it was just so obvious.i really didnt expect him to die tho.......i always had faith that he would help harry destroy voldermort, just thought he would be alive in doing so

I don't think it could be referring to Neville's granma - don't think she was a squib. Was quite powerful wasn't she?

Gringotts I think was helped by the help they had from the goblin. It did surprise me quite how easy it was though. Maybe cos they were so overworked it was easier? Possibly?

**Could the magic late in life be referring to Neville's Grandma

Dumbledore thought that the wand would lose it's power as Snape had agreed to kill him rather than been overpowered - I agree though that V wouldn't know this so Sanpe was liekly to be a gonner.

I did think there were a few too many coincidences. Ron being able to say open in Parselmouth, being able to break nto Gringots with Poly...juice It wouldn't be that easy otheriwse others would do it.

SAme here - I really wasn't surprised at the Lily/Snape thing.

No hints at lily / snape? really? I am sure there must be. It wasn't a surprise to me and I am not especially perceptive at these sort of things.

and oh my jesus god, the kids NAMES!

wtF was THAT about ? albus severus ffs.

when i read it first I assumed I was just delierious with tiredness. but I reread it after I'd had some sleep and my god it was STILL THERE. Am a bit shocked really.

am trying not to be here, unbelievably I googled HP and got this...am off a camping but shall email upon return to chew HP fat (ew)

really didn't like the lily/snape thing, on reflection. What annoyed me was that there was virtually no hints to it in previous books. JKR is very good at chekovian guns, and also stuff that you think reads one way but in fact, in context, means something else.

I can see two hints at the snape/lily thing. The mudblood business and also petunia's refernce to the awful boy re dementors. That is IT. So it felt a bit contrived,a bit deus ex machina, to stick it in right at the end. It did kind of lower my opinion of her writing, that and the epilogue.

right back to the book (i have left it at parents caravan so cant refer to it)

i gfinished it on sunday night. i found the ending too twee and bleugh. and very confusing with the kids being named after other people in the rest of the books.

what happened to the dursleys, where did they go?

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The lily/snape storyline, where harry saw into snapes thoughts had me almost in tears, he loved her for so long, and i knew he must've been good all along.

i saw it this evening CF, and also pissed myself at that point lol!

perhaps they got it from one of out threads

I don't think JK Rowling even wrote that epilogue. I reckon some pimple-faced youth at the printers stuck it on at the end