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.

DH got ours from Asda too, they only had childrens cover, not the adult one. He said not an interesting queuing experience at all, altho' they brought sweeties - where did you q, expat? And how long did you have to wait? Agree about the godfathering, mi, could have been developed a bit more, especially as Sirius had been such an important figure for H and the baby was orphaned just as Harry had been... did still like the book tho'.

ah, ok, I'm getting the eyes thing now.

expat - I thought the whole carrying the locket. it affecting people, burning Harry's skin etc was v v Lord of the Rings

I read it with a hangover, which was rather a nice way to read it.

The ending was so 'The Return of the King' Sam and Pippin return to the Shire I started laughing.

It was just like it except Harry sailed off into banality rather than immortality.

I revised my original opinion and agree with MI, you can see the struggle to create Something Big, but that requires an originality that's absent to say the least.

I also thought the Snape-Lilly love subplot was weak.

I did enjoy it and thought it was as well written as the others, but did get the feeling that she was partly sad it was ending so as a result just wanted it over and done with

lol at "Harry sailed off into banality"

Really? I thought the weakest bit was them jumping all over the countryside without being detected until Harry says V's name

But's that what he wanted wasn't it? A normal life?

Sorry, there was meant to be a at the end of that last comment so I didn't look like I was taking it too seriously

Yes, he wanted a normal life. Just like Mel Gibson in 'Braveheart'. And millions of putridly sappy Yanks who buy her books in the same quantities they buy schmaltzy cards in yet another overt display of false sentiment.

Boak.

She had something going in those last three books before this one.

Had something.

Do you think he should've died then?

I didn't create him or write him, rosmerta, so far be it from me to say definitely if he should have died. I mean, he had a near-death experience, after all.

But it just descended into 'Who Killed JR?!', IMHO and become one big, gooey marshmallow.

I can see that, but unfortunately, I'm a sucker for a happy ending so quite liked it (you can slap me now, if you wish)!

She had this whole sort of Japanese thing going, where there's no way to destroy evil because it's part of nature the same way good is, and I thought she was going to go for the yin/yang, 'Princess Mononoke' balance zen thing.

But nah, she caved to the Hallmark crowd.

It's entirely possible to have a good ending that isn't a pile of sugary pink goo.

I will contemplate on that expat. In the meantime, I'm on the early shift tomorrow so am off to bed

so which of the final chapters was the one she'd written years ago and locked up in her lawyers safe - the epilogue (which hardly seems worth it) or the previous one? Anyone know?
Also which chapter are the bookies paying out on the "last word" for?
Personally I didn't like it - I "needed" to read it to get to the end of the story, but it wasn't that good tbh. But I did appear twice, and didn't die

Well - I ought to change my name I 'spose except then it would be a little bit of a spoiler on other threads.

quite glad I didn't turn out to be bad after all

I liked it

I'm having great fun now, refusing to answer Dhs questions on which theories were right and which were wrong

He's convinced that Dumbledore either didn't die or comes back. I won't confirm or deny his speculation

I'm very chuffed that I was right about Harry being a horcrux and about him having to sacrifice himself, although I didn't get mushy enough to think he'd survive dying I know feel smug enough to write my own 7 novel multimillion pound generating fantasy series

Oh, and as a bonus my DSs are hugely impressed by my ability to read the entire book in one day!

Right... done, and now to read the thread!

Read thread.

Anyone else really disappointed? Ron, Harry, Hermione, Neville and Ginny all ok?! Yeah, Fred went, but he one of 2 anyway

I was surprised by how much i liked this book. I did find it wordy and overly twisty in places, but it had some really nice touches too, brought a smile to my face

I really enjoyed Macgonagalls(sp)'gallant' comment to Harry after dealing with Amycus. Loved the twins discussion of George being a 'saint because he is holey' and Neville's granny being 'proud' of her grandson, and Kreacher. This i found was more touching than some of the death scenes.

Anyway, 'twas good book and shall be reading it again when i have a 'few 7 hours spare....oh and a child watcher

Oh yes, the holes were good