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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Reaction Thread - SPOILERS!!!!
me | 7/21/2007 | me

Posted on 07/21/2007 5:18:11 PM PDT by 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.


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To: Grig
It was pretty good up until pg 704 and then J.K. tacked on three needless chapters. Since I was a good girl and didn’t look at spoilers, I was crying when Harry walked to his death. But then J.K. Rowlings went soft on me and didn’t do what she was foreshadowing throughout the book. IMO, it would have been much more interesting and had greater emotional impact if she had kept Harry dead. The Epilogue was a pure cop-out.

I also agree with you.. not enough time at Hogwarts and that the book kinda dragged in the middle. But it had some very, very good scenes led of course by The Forest Again.

101 posted on 07/22/2007 8:59:19 AM PDT by Accygirl
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To: sockmonkey
hehehe! Knowing the British habit of shortening and adding diminutives to names, I'd expect him to wind up with the nickname "Skorpy". I guess that's still better than the nickname Aberforth used for Mundungus Fletcher, though! ;)
102 posted on 07/22/2007 9:00:45 AM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Loot it while it lasts)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear
I guess that's still better than the nickname Aberforth used for Mundungus Fletcher, though! ;)

I like Molly Weasley's nickname for Bellatrix, myself. I thought it fit Bellatrix perfectly.

103 posted on 07/22/2007 9:05:10 AM PDT by sockmonkey
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To: sockmonkey
I like Molly Weasley's nickname for Bellatrix,

Ha! Yes! Both my wife and I exclaimed out loud when we turned the page and read that!

(hmm... maybe his first girlfriend will call him "Skorpy-poo"...)

104 posted on 07/22/2007 9:12:52 AM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Loot it while it lasts)
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To: JenB
So does anybody know, and perhaps I missed it in my rush through the book, how Neville ended up with the sword that Griphook the Goblin ran off with at Gringotts?
105 posted on 07/22/2007 9:20:49 AM PDT by Artemis Webb (New York Politicians do not think or believe like Americans! .....Fred Thompson -- 2008)
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To: Artemis Webb
So does anybody know, and perhaps I missed it in my rush through the book, how Neville ended up with the sword that Griphook the Goblin ran off with at Gringotts?

Well, I was thinking when Neville pulled it out of the sorting hat that a. Neville was a true Gryffindor (because only a true Griffindor could wield the sword) or pull it out of Godric's old hat, and b. that Dumbledore said that help would always be given to those loyal to Hogwart's..so that was how he was able to whip up the old sword..

Apparently, Griphook's version of who owned the sword was incorrect. Now we can wait for a deeper thinker than me to answer your question since my answer's are usually simple rather than deep.

106 posted on 07/22/2007 9:29:45 AM PDT by sockmonkey
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To: Artemis Webb
how Neville ended up with the sword

He pulled it out of the burning Sorting Hat on his head. Harry had also pulled the sword out of the hat in Chamber of Secrets, something that Dumbledore had said only a true Gryffindor could do.

107 posted on 07/22/2007 9:33:00 AM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Loot it while it lasts)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear; Rose in RoseBear

Figured it would be nice to have a chat place about the book once finished :-)

Remus’s death was so anti-climactic, it barely hit me. If I’d seen it it would have been much worse. As it was, I’d been expecting it Though not Tonks’. Very sad to have the story end so symmetrically, with a orphan boy whose parents died to stop Voldemort.

You are correct about who destroyed each! Interesting that Crabbe, the only one not conscious of what he was doing, lost his life in destroying it. There might be something there. And there’s an odd symmetry to some of them.... Crabbe destroys a diadem of wisdom, Hermione destroys Hufflepuff’s cup (surely if there is any non-Hufflepuff student in the school, it’s Hermione), Ron destroys the Slytherin locket that brings bitter jealousy, Dumbledore the ring that he wanted to use to bring back his past. It’s almost like they are destroying what might have been a possibilty for their own life if they’d made other choices. I shall have to think about that.


108 posted on 07/22/2007 9:44:30 AM PDT by JenB
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To: SuziQ

Ping.

Sorry I missed you! Don’t know how that happened.


109 posted on 07/22/2007 9:56:29 AM PDT by JenB
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To: JenB
Not seeing their deaths made it worse for me... struck home how death can happen even when you're not watching for it. Fred's death, on the other hand, was straight out of any WWII battle movie: happy-go-lucky character dies dramatically just as he's being happy-go-lucky.

Very good points about the destruction of each Horcrux! You might well be onto something there.

Something else I noticed throughout this book, was the recurrence of the themes of parents' obligations to children, and what parents will (and should) do for their children. I hesitate to make the comparison, but look at the difference between the Lupins, who left their child to join the fight, and died, and the Malfoys, who in the end only cared for finding their child and keeping him safe, and lived.

110 posted on 07/22/2007 10:06:31 AM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Loot it while it lasts)
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To: JenB; Bear_in_RoseBear; SuziQ
Favorite lines, anyone?

I have a couple ...

Not my daughter, you b!tch!
Molly Weasley rocks! I have been fond of her since she first latched onto Harry, and i've been saying she was probably a nifty witch ...

... but the fact remains he can move faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo when he wants to ...
Oh, dear, Fred's death made me cry.

I'm re-reading the final fight ... it was beautiful ...

111 posted on 07/22/2007 10:21:56 AM PDT by Rose in RoseBear (HHD [....it was deep! ...])
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To: Grig
re: Bible verses on tombstones, but nothing to indicate the quote was from the Bible.)))

But I kind of liked that. She knew who would notice.

112 posted on 07/22/2007 10:23:16 AM PDT by Mamzelle (Down with Mel Martinez)
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To: leapfrog0202

Except that I missed the part about how Neville obtained the sword. But I read the book a little too fast.


113 posted on 07/22/2007 10:25:51 AM PDT by Mamzelle (Down with Mel Martinez)
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To: RightWhale

What happened in the intervening nineteen years? Notice that there’s no reference to professions?


114 posted on 07/22/2007 10:26:50 AM PDT by Mamzelle (Down with Mel Martinez)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

What I wonder is about the Elder Wand... I mean... I thought it was supposed to be undefeatable but it can only be passed down by defeating the owner? Huh?


115 posted on 07/22/2007 10:29:24 AM PDT by JenB
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To: JenB
Yeah, I noticed that too, for being "unbeatable" it sure gets beat a lot... but the more I thought about it the more I realized that the people who got beat while using it weren't *really* masters of it, at least not as far as the wand was concerned, and so there weren't really able to tap into it's true power. For them, the ones who wound up getting beat, it functioned no better than an ordinary wand.
116 posted on 07/22/2007 10:36:17 AM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Loot it while it lasts)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

What about Dumbledore though? Ok, so Grindelwald probably wasn’t the master of it but surely Dumbledore won it by force, yet Draco took it away from him...


117 posted on 07/22/2007 10:40:50 AM PDT by JenB
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To: Rose in RoseBear

My favorite line in the first book was “Are you a witch or aren’t you?” from Ron when he was being attacked by the plant, and in this one, Hermione got to yell “Are you a wizard or aren’t you?”


118 posted on 07/22/2007 10:48:59 AM PDT by Politicalmom (Nearly 1% of illegals are in prison for felonies. Less than 1/10 of 1% of the legal population is.)
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To: JenB

Dumbledore didn’t get to use the wand on Draco, because he used his extra time to stun Harry.


119 posted on 07/22/2007 10:51:37 AM PDT by Politicalmom (Nearly 1% of illegals are in prison for felonies. Less than 1/10 of 1% of the legal population is.)
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To: Accygirl
It was pretty good up until pg 704 and then J.K. tacked on three needless chapters. Since I was a good girl and didn’t look at spoilers, I was crying when Harry walked to his death. But then J.K. Rowlings went soft on me and didn’t do what she was foreshadowing throughout the book. IMO, it would have been much more interesting and had greater emotional impact if she had kept Harry dead. The Epilogue was a pure cop-out.

Reading the thread before your post, I was beginning to think I was the only one that felt this way. It was so sad, but I thought she was working on the perfect ending and that the rest of the book would be Ron, Hermoine and Neville working together to finish off Valdemort. But instead it was, oh nevermind, let me give you a sappy ending. It really disappointed me.

120 posted on 07/22/2007 10:52:45 AM PDT by Elyse (I refuse to feed the crocodile.)
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