Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - the SPOILER thread!

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Don't post here if you don't want to know who dies and what happens.

You've been warned.

Alan Rickman can look into my eyes anytime - and I have long red hair so would love to be first understudy to LP if the post is ever offered!

Oh filly THERE you are

I was nearly driven to emailing you to discuss HP but thought I should leave you in peace

That was my main beef with the book, the Aaron Spelling epilogue.

Pass the bucket!

Why not just leave it for once instead of selling out to the sappy Hallmark crowd? It was a perfectly good ending as it is was.

ditto bereft but too shy too tell anyone

I read it very very s-l-o-w-l-y with a piece of paper covering each adjoining page so I couldn't skip ahead (have nasty habit of reading 2 pages all at once otherwise)

would have been much better to leave it than to do a half arsed epilogue.

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Anyone else find themselves thinking of the last Dr Who episode when they read about Voldemort as the shrunken baby-thing?!

Epilogue was cheesy. You could almost hear the love-story music, see the soft misty focus - pass the bucket.

Was really getting into the whole Harry-being-sacrificed bit but was almost disappointed when he came back to life. What happened there ffs?!

I really enjoyed it but did think things got rushed at the end. People dying and no explanation and suddenly it's over and nowt but a wee epilogue. I rather like epilogues tbh but that was a little on the lame side.

Loved that Kreacher came good! Thought the love stuff (Harry/Ginny Ron/Hermione) was a little dull after all the build-up but did like the Snape/Lily stuff. Really liked that actually, so sad.

God, though I really sped-read the second half, which I told myself I wouldn't do, so am going to re-read quite soon.

There did seem to be a lot hinted at in past books that never came to fruition. I.e agree we could have got loads more out of Petunia.

started listening to the cd's this morning

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

perhaps they got it from one of out threads

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

**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.

Spot on, Filly 22:06:52.

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?

Neville's grandmother was not a Squib.

Nor was Dumbledore's sister.

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

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

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

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 )