Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - the SPOILER thread!

BTW - if there is anything you are not sure about from the story - anything you didn't follow or understand - have a look on wikipedia. There is an amazing amount of information up there already.

I told dh that I was going to collect the book at 12am

He called me a mentalist

He has absolutely no interest whatsoever.

I'm so glad it's not just me who has a dh/p who doesn't get this whole thing
He will watch the films, like he will watch kids tv if dd is watching it - but not from choice!!

dp actually caught me crying i got "ur crying.......over a book...sad" i was all u dont understand sniffling,he was giving me strange looks

You want sad, hey? I was in tears, but they were happy, proud kind of tears, pretty much all the way thru the battle, especially when anything heroic by someone unexpected happened - like Neville, or when the House Elves came out to join the fray. I'm so glad dh was a work. I was getting all choked when I was telling him about it and he was looking at me like I'd lost it then! Imagine what he'd have thought if he'd see me with tears streaming down my face!!

and i think kreacher is fab!!!!!!, but was really sad about dobby

i think it was supposed to be like that.......i think lupin and tonk'sdeath was supposed to be as much of a shock to as it was to harry. i was sobbing uncontrolably when it became apparent that harry had to die.......for about half an hour,sad i know.

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yes Rosylily, for me, Lupin just pipped it, but it was so moving. The idea that he wanted to look into Lily's eyes one last time before he died..

Yup, it's me, but I haven't got round to changing back yet - I was well behind the times changing to a HP name, last on the bus as usual

you are too kind Threstralfeet - I didn't see the x-posts!

btw is that you, Tigerfeet? I changed back! - Obviously!!

Agree about the spells Roselily - I said in the build-up threads that I really hoped Harry didn't have to use an Unforgiveable Curse to get rid of Voldemort. I know he Imperiused the goblin and Travers in Gringotts but he didn't have to ues AK - which was great.

That's what I thought too Tigerschick, but you put it much better than I did!

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*For me the saddest death was Snapes.

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I really liked that 'expelliarmus' was Harry's signature spell and that was how he defeated Voldemort in the end, while Voldemorts own killing spell back fired on him yet again. And Harry remained on the moral high ground by sticking to his defensive spell.

Thought the image of the flayed baby thing as a one seventh of Voldemorts soul was a good though horrible description and would suggest that the remaining bit of soul in Voldemort was just as pathetic and broken.

It will be a fabulous series for teenagers to study at school for english lit I think.

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What got me about Lupin and Tonks was that there was no reference to their actual deaths. You didn't even hear of them fighting. They just turned up dead. Also that it was described like all the Weasleys were, understandably, huddled round Fred's body and no-one was crying over Tonks and Lupin. It would have better to me if Lupin had died whilst protecting Tonks and she was there crying over him. For me, it is seeing the grief in other characters that makes deaths in stories sad, like when Harry insists on digging Dobby's grave . So if Lupin died, Tonks' grief would have made it more touching somehow. Does that make sense?

The ending did seem a bit rushed. Lupin and Tonks' demise could have been covered better imho. Found it difficult to be sad because their bodies just appeared with no preamble at all.

Agree Tigerschick, the epilogue could have been more descriptive. I was expecting a character by character account of how their lives had gone!

agree fawkeoff (great name)

not quite sure why I liked Lupin so much - maybe because he gave out chocolate to cheer people up

dumbledore must have known at the end of the goblet of fire that harry now had a loophole to death,i jst thought it was so sad that tonks and lupin had to die......i mean come on she had killed off enough ppl she could have spared them

Enjoyed reading all the comments so much - noone else I know as finished it and I needed to know that other people were as sad as I was that Lupin died. Did anyone else think when Lupin asked Harry to be the godfather - nooo, that means you're toast?

Did Dumbledore not realise that Happy wouldn't actually die coz V had Harry's blood in him?

Oh - and totally agree with Armadillo that the epilogue was pointless; too vague to be conclusive and not vague enough to leave any room for creative editing by me in my warped little mind!

Dahlia - if no one else has taken you up on the offer of a cover swap; may I, please?
wisteriamn at googlemail dot com

I agree re Gambon being wrong as Dumbledorw. They could at least have kept the look the same as RH. But no, they changed the whole look.

I still think Gambon is wrong and the main scene that proves this is his reaction when harry's name comes out of the goblet of fire. It's just wrong.

escape from - they're all happy in wherever the train from kings cross goes. Snape wouldn't have feared death.

something which bothered me (slightly) was dumbeldores cold bloodedness. i guess you have to be when at war and everything for the cause etc, but V would have had to kill snape for the elder wand if it had been won fairly, rather than planned... so DD planned snapes death as well as harrys ( even though the plan came a little unstuck.) however i think this makes gambons DD as believable as harris'. he's not a nice twinkly old man at all!