Posted on 07/21/2007 5:18:11 PM PDT by JenB
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.
I like Molly Weasley's nickname for Bellatrix, myself. I thought it fit Bellatrix perfectly.
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"...)
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.
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.
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.
Ping.
Sorry I missed you! Don’t know how that happened.
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.
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 ...
But I kind of liked that. She knew who would notice.
Except that I missed the part about how Neville obtained the sword. But I read the book a little too fast.
What happened in the intervening nineteen years? Notice that there’s no reference to professions?
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?
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...
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?”
Dumbledore didn’t get to use the wand on Draco, because he used his extra time to stun Harry.
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.
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