Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Reaction Thread - SPOILERS!!!!

me | 7/21/2007 | me

[JenB]

So you finally know what happens to Harry. All our questions are answered. Or not. What are your reactions? Whose death hurt the most? Do you want more, and about whom?

SPOILERS are ok on this thread! You have been warned!

Wow. It's over.

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

Oh, and one more reason I think Harry snookered Voldy into casting the "E" instead of the "AK":

Voldy could have been thinking that he has now cast the AK curse TWICE and both times it failed to kill Harry. (Once as a child and again in the forest.) But if he could only "get his hands on the Elder Wand" then maybe the AK curse would finally work. Or else, why would Harry put so much effort into trying to convince Voldy that he (Harry) in fact had the Elder Wand? In addition, Harry had already used two of the three "unforgivable curses" so.....

[r9etb]

Rob Reiner may be a total fat slob liberal, but he's made some of my favorite movies in the whole world!

Well, yeah ... but The Princess Bride was a book long before it was a movie, and the line's in the book.

[schwing_wifey]

That was so funny and I immediately thought the same thing...”Don’t mess with Ripley, she kicks @$$”...Bellatrix is toast!

;D

I really hope they use the exact same line in the movie...that will tickle us older Sci-Fi fans. (And whats “Bitch” when you have talk of masturbation in “Transformers”... geez)

[SuzanneWeeks]

I Agree! That was what I really wanted to read in the last chapter!

I love Neville!

[r9etb]

It is what Harry was telling Voldy that caused me to question who threw which spell in the final moments of the fight.

IIRC, the book goes on to say that Voldemort's own spell rebounded on him and killed him. So Voldemort is the one who used AK.

[Tijeras_Slim]

AK curse TWICE

Three times, once in the graveyard in GOF. < /pottergeek> :)

[schwing_wifey]

Bingo!

(Please pick your prize from the first row.)

;D

[Maigrey]

She taught Draco, so she would be quite adept at Occulumency. I bet her and Snape would test each other in mental combat.

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

Like I said, I’m gonna have to go back and re-read that fight scene again. But thanks for the comment.

[schwing_wifey]

You are totally right....

See, thats what happens when you set “book reading” records... always end up going back... sigh

;D

[r9etb]

Like I said, I’m gonna have to go back and re-read that fight scene again. But thanks for the comment.

LOL! Looks like the folks at Mugglenet will still have a lot of loose ends to tie up before they move on to something else....

[TalonDJ]

The things DD asked Snape to do were truly difficult in the way that they asked him to do evil acts, risk life and limb and more, and to be subject to the hatred of all who were good and nice. To betray and appear to betray all around him. One scene I thought particularly pivotal was right after that when Harry told Neville about the snake. There was that agonizing moment when he realized all that he was asking Neville to do and how his manipulation of a willing accomplice was just what Dumbledore had been doing to him, Harry, all along. That moment where he saw the depth of it and knew just how wrong it was but that he had to do it. That scene I found very stirring and it only further built up the one later where Neville actually did against certain death, what he was asked to do. The way Harry was there at the last moment to save him from the result took me back to COS where Harry plunged blindly ahead through Dumbledore’s manipulation and there, at the moment where all was lost DD stepped in (Via the phoenix) to rescue his ‘servant’ from certain death. I think Harry learned a lesson there, with Neville, about what it means to be trusted and the responsibility that comes with it that I am not sure DD every really understood.

[Elyse]

Then in the afternoon I'd sit on my porch with the hose threatening all those kids to "Get off my damn lawn!"

ROFL!

[Politicalmom]

*Curtsy*

[TightyRighty]

I understand. I was really irritated when she killed him off because I felt that he had recognized and made up for the sins in his past. But after thinking about it - his death was necessary (for lack of a better word). He was a bitter man and would have continued to live an unhappy life.

[JenB]

Nah, not based on the comment about Percy in the epilogue. Just because he admitted to be wrong didn’t make him less of a prat.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Like I said, I’m gonna have to go back and re-read that fight scene again. But thanks for the comment.

I got about 500 pages in the first day, but was so tired that I went back and re-read about 100 the next day.

There's a lot of stuff in that book. I have to say it sure exceeded my expectations, and they were pretty high!

[Politicalmom]

He COULD have reformed and been honorary “uncle” to Harry’s kids. :p

[retrokitten]

Tell me about it. I thought Ron lost his arm when he splinched. Then a few pages later he was holding something. I had to go back and re-read the splinching part.

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

Three times, once in the graveyard in GOF. < /pottergeek> :)

I stand corrected. I just didn't think that Voldy would count that one since 1) Olivander explained why the twin wand cores would cancel each other out and 2) Voldy didn't get knocked on his butt that time.

Speaking about Pottergeeks, it's pretty pathetic that we are discussing what two fictional characters were thinking during their (potential) last moments on Earth.