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[Plew]

ooo i finally finish the book after a month but it was decent...

can someone explain something to me:

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Where did the gaints on the death eater's side go when Harry fought Voldemort?

[Bryan]

WTF, i thought HArry and Hermione were gonna get it on from the begging. That sucks! lol

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The book clearly says who is going to be with who =P Harry can't stop thinking about Ginny, and Ron can't stop trying to impress Hermione. A bit dull actually =/

[Sasha]

Depends on how you look at it.

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I did't find it dull that they thought about the same person. It's only dull if you've never been through it and think it can't really happen.
I thought Ginny's character wasn't developed enough... But other than that, I enjoyed the whole thing.

Edited by Sasha, 17 August 2007 - 12:35 AM.

[phalkon]

yeah, i'll agree with you on, that. i mean, Ginny's been "there" the whole time, but not much else. it wasn't until what, OotP that she actually starts getting more into the story...

[Gen]

Damn I just finished it today(after 5 days, counting that I readed a little bit on each, and yesterday I just readden 240 pages(whole in english lol) and today 120 pages...So, it was pretty cool *O*

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Idk, I think that the end was pretty good, imagine if they just do a 8th book telling about Albus Severus Potter lol?(I liked when it was just Albus, but than Harry speaked the "severus" pretty bad name thought, it didn't match with the Potter or Weasley, but anyway, I just loved the 7th book, was the best of them all

[Charmender]

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Prett Good book, Pretty pissed at the fact its ended though, i hope theres a book which carried on from the end of the book, like with his kids, and yah i agree with you lot, albus severus is a shit name, and i really cant believe she killed dobby off, how sad, also didnt she make harry do like 2/3 of the unforgivable curses?

No where near as good as the previous ones though, This book just didnt seem to have the harry potter charm, too many people dying, all the bullshit camping, and we didnt even get to find out what happened after voldemort died, she should write a book for the inbetween bit between the 17 years later shit.

[spottedtiger]

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I don't think she will though, after re-reading it out of sheer boredom I found a lot of careless mistakes at the end... like one of them was Hagrid crying "Harry Harry" istead of "'Arry" crying should make you pronounce the 'h' sound easier. And the Ron and Hermione love-dovey scene didnt make any sense at all -.-

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albus isnt that bad of a name and as for severus being the middle name i don't think it really matters because nobody ever says your full name anyway unless you're in trouble

i still say at the end she got tired of writing it i mean

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WTF! was up with the ending line of the epilogue... "The scar had not pained him for blah blah blha years. ALL WAS WELL." I have half a mind of whiting it out of my book

[Sasha]

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Hey, when did Harry do 2/3 of the unforgivable curses?!? My copy must've missed those pages. All I remember him doing is expelliarmus, which he always does.
I liked the whole camping part. Perhaps 'cause I love camping myself .

BTW, do we still need to use the spoiler tags?

[Sweeney]

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Hey, when did Harry do 2/3 of the unforgivable curses?!? My copy must've missed those pages. All I remember him doing is expelliarmus, which he always does.
I liked the whole camping part. Perhaps 'cause I love camping myself .

BTW, do we still need to use the spoiler tags?

Not really... but just in case:

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He used Imperio in Gringotts, on two different people, and Crucio on... someone

[Sasha]

Not really... but just in case:

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He used Imperio in Gringotts, on two different people, and Crucio on... someone

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Wait, wasn't that in the movie? The 5th movie? He used Crucio on Bellatrix in the 5th book, but it didn't even work, because he didn't mean it.

[Sweeney]

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Wait, wasn't that in the movie? The 5th movie? He used Crucio on Bellatrix in the 5th book, but it didn't even work, because he didn't mean it.

It did work, but not very well.
And don't refer to the films. The books are better.

I'm pretty sure he used it again somewhere, but then again, the Crucio bit could just be a mental throwback to book five.

[Sweeney]

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In Griffindor common room when that deatheater teacher insulted McGonagall(sp?), Harry comes to her defense and uses crucio, then says something about Bellatrix being right and that he needs to feel it or something.

Why is it I have such a memory for tedious facts, but try and remember law stuff off the top of my head and I get stuck

There we are, I knew it was somewhere... Amycus Carrow, wasn't it?

[Squishee]

This is one good thing to remember

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The reason Harry names his son Albus Severus is because snape did everything he could to protect harry's mom. Snape was IN LOVE with harry's mom...

[ss10009]

My take is lovely and interesting (read: lengthy).

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There were parts when J.K. seriously slapped us in the face and screamed "Children's book! Children's book!".
The epilogue, whenever people started ranting on about love (that final battle with Voldemort), yeah... No wonder... She made it seem like the end was justice when really I just couldn't see it. But I guess the younger readers were smiling happily, huh?

One of the things that really messed with me was when she killed off Lupin and Tonks. And no it's not because Lupin was one of my favorite characters (though he is!). It's because she made him all happy (most likely the happiest he's been since his school years) and gave him a tiny little metamorphing son and then BAM! The man is DEAD. We don't even know who killed him. And then BOOM! Tonks dies off stage, too. And she has the NERVE to leave a little orphan Teddy behind. That was MEAN.

But then Rowling makes me feel so sad with that scene in the woods when Harry is about to die and he's talking to everyone from that generation long ago that I (nearly) forgive her. I must say I enjoyed how Narcissa displayed that, deep down, she's no more than a concerned mother. Heh. Yet another children's book lesson about how a mother's love is one of the most powerful loves of all... But, yeah, it was sweet.

I did enjoy the Ron/Hermione romance. Oddly enough I don't really like this couple but they did have a seven year build up. After so much rushed romance in book six, I was happy to find something that did make some sense. (Sorry, H/Hr fans but c'mon, Rowling herself said that it's been pretty evident since book four!)

...And, yeah, if I knew anyone named "Albus Severus" I would tease them for as long as I lived. But, seriously, did Ginny get ANY say in the naming process? Albus Severus, James, and Lily = Harry related. No one's gets named Fred? And Harry just forget all about poor Sirius... And Rose Weasley is OK but what the %{:content:}amp;# is up with Hugo? (I hope I don't offend and Hugo's.) And was it Scorpio Malfoy or Scorpious? And wouldn't it be ironic if were a Pisces or something? Heh...lucky Teddy...it's a cute name (Though at 19 it might become a bother)

OK, Rowling says she's going to publish some kind of encyclopedia follow up so I'm waiting on that. And she hasn't sworn on any of her children that she won't publish some back stories (If she makes a book about the Marauders I swear I'll pre order instead of being lazy and going to WalMart day after) so...let's hope for the best!

Uh...my spoiler cut is very long...sorry.

[spottedtiger]

how do you guys do the clicky spoiler thing

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well... snape developed a sort of affection towards harry at eventually... [or at least that's what J.K.R tried to do]
I don't see why Albus Severus is that bad most people probably won't even know his middle name Albus S. Potter woot... why are you peoples making such a big deal out of it? He probably will be called Al most his life anyway plus it's a fictional character it all doesnt matter in the end

oh cool they changed it

[Squishee]

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I'm sorry but we all know the reason why he named it, it doesn't make mor sense knowing why. But pesonally, if someone was in love with my motherand was quite horrible and spiteful to me my entire life, I'm not going to name my child after that person. If find it a bit gross actually.

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actuallyy i was grossed out too, but it was kind of nice that he tried his best to help them either way, he was being horrible because he had to show to voldemort how evil he was, and he did hate his dad, he probably wished harry was his son eeeewwwww

[spottedtiger]

well jk had an ongoing theme of misunderstood people