Harry Potter obsessiveness for those who've FINISHED reading Deathly Hallows - WARNING SPOILERS!!!" Don't open this thread unless you have finished the book!

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Just getting it ready for tomorrow!

Last line was "His scar hadn't hurt for 19 years. All was well" Or something like that

Yeah she's intimated that she might not leave that as the last book and introducing all the kids makes me wonder if she's giving herself a way to go back to it should she decide she want to.

Exactly, all was well? Odd..

DS1 woke me at 2am the day he got the bloody book to tell me he had finished it and this is what happens arrrrgggghhhhhhhh

i hope she doesnt do anothe generation book with their kids................i just dont think anyone can replace them

if there was another book about the kids it would be a bit like all the boarding school books I used to read as a kid but with magic!

I think todays kids would like that

I absolutely loved the Worst Witch books, and so always wished she'd write more, was thrilled by Harry Potter the first time I read them.

Of course HP far cleverer and more grown up. Remember reading Worst witch books so much they fell apart and had to cellotape them back together

I am bereft. I have just finished it. And wept more than I was expecting to...

filchy its ok..........i was exactly the same, and i feel no shame that i cried way more than i should have.

re-read bits last night and cried again. You are not alone

im re reading it all.......up to where bills told em moodys dead

I was convinced Mad eye would turn up (no body found etc ) then last night re-read about Unbridges office door and I cried buckets, worse than when I read it first time around!

i really thought he would turn up 2..........was gutted when his eye was on the door

Just finished it .... Loved it .... JK did well IMO ... last chapter a bit hazy but the link that someone put up earlier in this thread explains why so that is cool ...

Things I liked:
Watching Ron and Hermione's blossoming lurve
All that stuff about Snape - I could never get my head around why DD trusted him ... Am glad that he ended up good
All the battle bits ... so exciting ...
That Neville called the sword out of the hat (like Harry did when faced with the basilisk) ... and ended up being as brave as any of them and killed the snake
That the Malfoys weren't all that bad really deep down - that in the end the love for their son over rode their support for Voldemort
That Lupin and Tonks called their son Teddy ... top top top name ...

Things I didn't like:
Wasn't too keen on the first half of the book ...I felt I was 'ploughing' through it and at times was saying to myself "Oh, fgs GET TO THE POINT!" I think all that camping until they found the sword in the lake very dull.

Can somebody please explain how the sword re appeared? I seem to eremember Griphook buggering off tiwth it, but then nothing else

MamaG -I think it was the magic of the hat which made the sword available to any true Gryffindor in need.

I have another question, regarding Half Blood Prince. When Mrs Weasley is discussing how she doesn't want Fleur and Bill to marry she says it is because of Voldemort's return to power and how last time he was powerful people eloped left, right and centre to which Ginny replies "including you and Dad". So exactly how long was Voldemort powerful for before he tried to kill Harry? Because unless all the older Weasley children were born out of wedlock they must have been married for years before Harry was a baby.

Which then begs the question, why didn't Dumbledore battle Voldemort back then?

They were married years before Harry was born. After all Ron is the second youngest and the same age as Harry. I think Voldemort was powerful for about 14 years or so.
Seem to remember reading that somewhere.
Arthur and Molly were quite a bit older than Sirius and James.

Ok I'm confused about the ring.

How come Dumbledore said tht when Harrys parents died he has two hallows? Obviously one was the cloak but did he have the ring?
How come he didn't try and put the ring on before?

wasnt charlie best man at the wedding? i think he was in the battle at hogwarts too?

mrs tonks after story is that she would have freddy to look after

He had the wand. He's had the wand for ages after defeating Grindelwald.

He only got the ring in HBP when he found it as a horcrux in the old Gaunt house.

Newgirl, you mean Teddy

I am sure Charlie was in it, just not much. Pretty sure he was mentioned when they all came to the RoR before the battle.

That makes sense about the ring.

So when did he duel Grindelwald?

I thought it was after Harry's parents died?

Loved it. It's awful when you want so much to read a book and then feel bereft when you have finished it! Going to see the new film this week too...

He dueled Grindelwald in 1945.

DD is very old

dd was 157 !!