Books I've read so far this year...

[nekosensei]

I've got another book to add to the list, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling



Overall, I enjoyed the book. I felt that the part where Harry, Hermoine, and Ron were camping out in the tent hiding from the Death Eaters could have been shortened. It seemed to stretch on forever. Also, I thought that the trio's escape from Gringott's, a place that was impossible to break into and get back out of, on the back of a dragon was stretching it a bit. Yeah...a blind dragon breaking of out Gringotts, a veritable fortress, by breathing fire and flying up. Right. And I didn't understand how Harry Potter was the rightful owner of the Elder Wand because he disarmed Draco Malfoy of a different wand earlier in the book. What happens to one wand can apply to another?

On the other hand, the deaths of Hedwig, Doby, Lupin, Tonks, and Fred Weasley were very sad. I must be a nutcase, but Hedwig's death made me sadder than Mad-Eye Moody's at the beginning, probably because I'm an animal person and I thought Hedwig was a cooler character. And I was practically bawling when Harry, who discovered that he was the seventh Horcrux and had to die, used the Resurrection Stone to summon his parents and Sirius Black as he walked towards what he thought was certain death at the hands of Voldemort. And Snape, who I thought was a bad guy at the beginning turned out to be the good guy...and all because he loved Lily Potter since she was a little girl. How sweet!

I was kind of disappointed by the last chapter. J. K. Rowling wanted to bring it around full circle by focusing on Harry and Ron's kids as they head to Hogwarts for the first time. It's nice knowing that Harry married Ginny while Ron married Hermoine and they all had lots of cute red-haired kids (was anybody surprised by this?), but what did they do with their lives? We know that Neville becomes a professor at Hogwarts, but that's it. Did Harry and Hermoine become Aurors? Did they work for the Ministry of Magic? She couldn't let *something* slip during that scene? Maybe other readers were sastified, but I thought, after having followed the books for ten years, it would have been nice to know that. Personally, I thought that Harry Potter would have made a great Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher...

Comments

[1koolspud.livejournal.com]

I almost picked up an "epilogue sucked" icon. And I am glad I am not the only one who thought it was bogus that there is all of that crap about them picking careers, then dropping out of school pre NEWT. What did they do with themselves???

And I am also glad I am not the only one crying my eyes out at that part.

[nekosensei.livejournal.com]

Well...you can hardly blame them for dropping out. Voldemort wanted Harry dead and Hermoine would have been taken to Azkaban or killed because her parents were Muggles. I'd imagine that they got bonus points for defeating Voldemort though. I wonder if they would have been allowed to either make up the NEWT or make up the year that they missed. You have to wonder if anybody got to take the NEWT because there was that huge battle at Hogwarts after all. It seems to me that she just slapped an ending on...

[angharad76.livejournal.com]

I'm in the epilogue sucked camp myself. I think she did it to cap off the series so that she wouldn't feel pressured to continue to an eighth book. I agree about Harry being the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.

I was literally bawling during that scene. It was all I could do to keep snot of the pages. TMI?

At the beginning of the book, I was starting to doubt my allegiance to the "Trust Snape" camp, but I'm glad I was proven right.