Deathly Hallows Spoilers
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chu_totoroSo. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
First, I've got to say that it was an awesome book. Wrapped up everything in a fairly elegant, heroic way without drowning us in too much cheese (ignoring that thing they call Nineteen Years Later), had me entirely absorbed and rooted to my seat for a full 6 hours straight (it was rather embarrassing; I was in the aisle seat and every time the lady next to me wanted to get out for something I'd have to be poked repeatedly to be dragged back into rl), and gave me easily the best plane trip I'd ever had.
In general I think JKR concluded everything fairly well, again ignoring the Nineteen Years Later, mostly because if it had just ended where the story, well, ended, we would at least be left freely to imagine that Harry eventually dumped Ginny and went on to marry, who knows, even Luna Lovegood would've been better, though that's still a bit of a =/ for me; the only het pairing I've ever really shipped for Harry was Harry/Cho, despite the amount of people that dispute it. I'm all for Harry/Luna friendship, but er, not more than that.
Harry/Ginny just never struck true for me. I found it tolerable, and didn't detest it so much that it interfered with my reading (like FitzChivalry/Molly in the Assassin series), but it was still very, eh, forced. I mean, look at the progression.
Philosopher's Stone: Insignificant little sister, receives a mention as "a small girl, also red-headed," who "pipes" a lot. Eager to see Harry Potter, although mostly it seems because he's famous: "Oh, Mom, can I go on the train and see him, Mom, oh please..."
No further mention of her except at the very end, when the Trio gets off the train and she squeals and points at Harry because she's too little to have proper manners. So it's set up from the very beginning that Ginny's got a slightly unhealthy fangirl obsession over Harry Potter. How does that make for a good relationship in the future? All right, I know he's 11 and she's 10 at this point, but still.
Chamber of Secrets: OK, now she's in Hogwarts, and in fact, the focal point of the book. You know, the one trapped in the chamber and all that. More obsessive fangirlness... jokes about her and Colin making a Harry Potter fanclub, etc etc. Super shy, can't even talk to Harry properly, and you sort of get the idea of how she's like from the end, when Harry saves her and she begins blubbering all over the place ("I'm going to be expelled! I've looked forward to coming to Hogwarts ever since B-Bill came and n-now I'll have to leave and - w-what'll Mum and Dad say?"). Reasonable, she's 11 and a first year... I'm sure Harry's heroic saving of her helped further her fangirlish obsession...
Prisoner of Azkaban: Ginny's hardly mentioned at all. I mean, she's around sometimes, but never more than a minor side character, there only to be brushed aside when the major characters come in. (e.g., "'I need to talk to you in private,' Harry muttered to Ron and Hermione as the train picked up speed. 'Go away, Ginny,' said Ron. 'Oh, that's nice,' said Ginny huffily, and she stalked off.")
Goblet of Fire: "[Hermione and Ginny] smiled at Harry, who grinned back, which made Ginny go scarlet" – so the Harry obsession's still there, aside from that, she's much the same as in the third book. She can talk to him now, which is a bit of an improvement, and in general you see that she's more or less elevated to the same level of Harry's other friends (not, obviously, as close as the Trio, but perhaps Neville-wise?). Still, one thinks of her as the little-sister-with-a-crush-on-famous-Potter.
Harry, on the other hand, starts his Cho obsession, which doesn't make Ginny too happy ("'I asked her to go with me just now,' Harry said dully... Ginny had suddenly stopped smiling."), and Ginny ends up going to the Yule Ball with Neville, because no one else'd really ask her, right? And she needs a fourth year to ask her in order to go. She becomes miserable when she finds out about Harry and Ron's predicament (no one to go with! ha.) probably because she could've then gone with Harry if only she hadn't accepted Neville's offer...
Order of the Phoenix: THIS BOOK. This. Here. Is where I really stopped liking Ginny, as a character. Her personality makes about a 180 degree turnaround, all of her insecurities seem to have disappeared, she's going out with Michael Corner, and all of a sudden she's turned from this moderately shy, sweet girl into this girl with a fierce personality, a lot of guts, who's smart, funny, and pretty much perfect. Hello? These things don't just happen, wtf. She becomes open, sociable, is one of the few who can talk with Harry when he's in one of his moods (this is the CAPSLOCK SPAM volume, recall), and the little sister from before seems completely to have disappeared.
According to this interview of Rowling,
Field: Do you plan for Ginny to take on a major character role in the next two books?
JK Rowling replies -> Well, now that Ginny has stopped being mute in Harry's presence I think you can see that she is a fairly forceful personality (and she always has been, remember Ron saying that she 'never shuts up' in Chamber of Secrets)?
That... just really pisses me off, I'm sorry. It just doesn't add up, for me. And then in a mugglenet interview, she describes Ginny to be "tough" and "gutsy" and even more, the "ideal girl for Harry."
ew. (Sorry to any Ginny fans out there.)
She's "funny," "very warm and compassionate."
Yeah, I suppose. Ginny's all of these things. In the fifth book. What about the first four? They just don't match for me, personally. That one bit where the twins converse about Ginny's talent for Quidditch and Hermione tells them "She's been breaking into your broom shed in the garden since the age of six and taking each of your brooms out in turn when you weren't looking." Okay. I am able to moderately accept the fact that after Chamber and all that she's been through, Ginny matured a lot and somehow managed to become who she is now, even if it smacks somewhat unrealistic to me, but now. You are saying that little shy 11-year-old who was incredibly insecure and girlish and confided all her deepest feelings to a talking diary used to secretly break into a broomshed and fly around on stolen brooms when she was 6?
It could work, I suppose. If you twist the facts around and go through a lot of explanation, it could make perfect logical sense, but intuitively Ginny Weasley, at this point, died for me. It could be my slight bias against strongheaded female characters, but I've read some of those that I've really, really liked, such as Althea. but Ginny. just. GAH.
RON: "we won. Did you see the look on Chang's face when Ginny got the Snitch right out from under her nose?"
Symbolism, is that?
Blah.
Half-Blood Prince: Okay, I don't even feel like going into this one. Suffice it to say that the book was excellent, but the romance bits of it were utter failure? JKR's not good at romance, wtf. Turn Lavender Brown into a snogpuppet, throw Ron and Hermione into fits of jealousy over each other, Ginny suddenly becomes a popular heroine, and Harry suddenly discovers he likes her. ffft. What does he really know about Ginny? =/ honestly.
Deathly Hallows: The Ginny bits in this book sort of irritated me. She wasn't even useful to the plot now, Luna's more helpful than she is on most occasions, Harry's random thoughts of her were just sort of eh *skim* material. Smacks of FitzChivalry and Molly after she gets together with Burrich. Cho offering to take Harry to Ravenclaw was ♥♥♥, Ginny making Luna take him instead was wtf.
Nineteen Years Later was sort of pfffff blah again. Though the Draco part was lovely. Scorpius. Scorpius! Ahahahahaha. Draco and Scorpius. The Malfoys have a penchant for weird names, don't they?
Er, right. I really didn't mean to have that Ginny tangent be so long. Back to the book? ==;;
Anyway, about the bits I loved in this book!
A lot of characters, both minor and major, fleshed out so much, and omg I heart them to pieces. Harry. ahhhhhh, I loved Harry in this book. No longer a bellowing twit all day, eh? I was actually glad that he didn't die. :D
Ron and Hermione were awesome as well. Especially Ron. The abandonment and subsequent return was brilliant. I basically hearted the Trio to pieces in this book. And I've come to like the Ron/Hermione pairing.
Minor characters, though. Kreacher. Oh, Kreacher. I feel so mean for all the bad things I've thought about you in the past. T___T Poor Kreacher. Poor poor Kreacher.
And actually, Dudley. The cup of tea made me laugh, and Big D made me laugh even harder, but I'm tolerant of him now.
Aunt Petunia!!! I've always secretly thought that about her, but now that it's been seen and proven in Snape's memories it makes her so much more of a real person, you know what I mean. Before, the entire family of Dursleys were just two dimensional. Though Uncle Vernon hasn't improved much.
And Snape. gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Snape. I'm so sorry I ever doubted you. T___T My sister is still in denial. She's convinced Snape is the bad guy. The entire pensieve scene struck me as a sort of convenient info-dump, but it made me sad anyways. Unrequited love! Oh, poor Snape. And the silver doe... :(
(I went back and read the first couple of books after this, and the characterization didn't actually match that well; I'm not sure JKR originally intended the Snape/Lily thing, but in any case it really doesn't matter. The characters developed as she wrote.)
Dumbledore's backstory was awesome. Dumbledore and Grindelwald!! One of the best pairings to come out of this~
I sort of hoped Draco would have a bigger part in this. Narcissa, at the end, made me laugh, it was so perfect, though I was a bit surprised that Lucius also cared so much. Fandom's sort of led me to automatically assume Lucius was the coldblooded, uncaring father as he is so often portrayed. But back to Draco. You know the very end?
VOLDEMORT: BWAHAHAHA I have the Elder Wand! YOU DIE NOW.
HARRY: Actually, it's not yours.
VOLDIE: Bzuh?
HARRY: The rightful owner is Draco!
DRACO: Wha?
ME: YESYES go Draco go! Take it and defeat him! DO SOMETHING!
DRACO: Well, all right th-
HARRY: But as I have conveniently defeated Draco earlier, it is now mine!
ME: ......
DRACO: ......
VOLDIE: ......
--;; sigh. How very disappointing.
One of the other things that bugged me about this series was how many convenient plot twists just always popped out so that the Trio survived, or got out of a tight spot etc etc. Okay, so we find out the doe comes from Snape, so that's all right. Dobby's timely arrival on orders of Aberforth just seemed a bit ehhhh. I know there's been hints of it all along, but still. I mean, if he was watching the whole time, couldn't he do something about it earlier?
Oh yeah, Aberforth. DID I MENTION I LOVE HIM? Gawd, Aberforth. Possibly one of my favoritest characters ever. I wish he'd had a bigger part. But ahahahahahahahahhaa.
"It's a goat, idiot!" ♥♥♥
And also, oh, sword! Basilisk fang! Conveniently disposes of Horcruxes. Wonderful. And the last Horcrux?
TRIO: Alas, we have no sword!
DIADEM: *crack*
HERMIONE: Oh, that must have conveniently been Fiendfyre! Which destroys Horcruxes!
TRIO: Oh, all's well then! On with the quest!
*snort*
Also, mild inconsistencies... the Trace? What happened with Dobby and Harry in book 2 then? I also distinctly recall them having some sort of discussion about that and Ron saying that in wizarding families they can't really tell who's doing the magic, so it's on an honor system? And Harry thinking it was unfair? So what's this about a specific Trace on you ‘til you're seventeen? hmmm. [edit] So, upon rereading (and also as Moonshadow so kindly pointed out), Mad-Eye has this bit in the beginning before he dies:
"The Trace, the Trace!" said Mad-Eye impatiently, "The charm that detects magical activity around under-seventeens, the way the Ministry finds out about underage magic! If you, or anyone around you, casts a spell to get you out of here, Thicknesse is going to know about it, and so will the Death Eaters."
I think that explains it away well enough. Kudos to JKR, and cookies to everyone. :D
Aside from that, I don't think there were too many other inconsistencies that caught my eye, aside from inconsistent characterization, which has been happening left, right, and upside-down, and that I'm just going to ignore for the most part, because, hey, willing suspension of disbelief! Not exactly the proper use of that phrase, but I mean, if JKR got better, more in-depth ideas about her characters that were obviously not intended back when she wrote the first book, you can't really blame her, eh? I enjoyed reading the fleshed-out characters, who cares if they weren't originally intended to be so cool. :) [/edit]
R.A.B. slightly anticlimactic, Dumbledore already dying frompotion ring curse slightly anticlimactic, Harry = Horcrux slightly anticlimactic, but that's not JKR's fault really. Her fans have exhausted basically every possible theory, I think. If Harry died, it wouldn't have been a surprise, if he wasn't a Horcrux and didn't die, it would also not have been much of a surprise, basically unless she came up with something absolutely new and twisted and original, it wouldn't have been much of a surprise. Not her fault the speculation ran so high.
I actually liked the King's Cross scene at the end. :D This book made me like Dumbledore so much more~
Again, Nineteen Years Later was =/ . No one named after Fred? HOW COULD THEY. T____T Fred, oh Fred...
Right, did she really have to kill off so many? So casually? Hedwig. In wut, the first 50 pages or so. WHATWHATWHAT. WAHHHHHHH. DX
Mad-Eye I didn't care about so much. Though halfway in the book I thought he revived for a while, and it turned out to be a Tongue-Tying Curse. >>
Dobby's death happened too quickly for real impact, Remus and Tonks didn't even GET proper deaths wtf. I didn't like Remus so much here. Don't y'all miss him from the good old days?
"Quiet!" said a hoarse voice suddenly.
Professor Lupin appeared to have woken up at last. Harry could hear movements in his corner. None of them spoke.
There was a soft, crackling noise, and a shivering light filled the compartment. Professor Lupin appeared to be holding a handful of flames. They illuminated his tired, gray face, but his eyes looked alert and wary.
"Stay where you are," he said in the same hoarse voice, and he got slowly to his feet with his handful of fire held out in front of him.
hehehe.
And on a random note, that random appearance of Krum and his random line: "Vot is the point of being an international Quidditch player if all the good-looking girls are taken?" just made me laugh so hard. So hard. ahahaha.
Ron, too: "And what in the name of Merlin’s most baggy Y Fronts was that about?"
*cracks up and dies* XDDD
Okay, I'm done (I think) with my spoilers and wanking and complaints etc. Anyone who's read the book, please come discuss with me! /is completely HPbrained right now and can't think of much else XD;
First, I've got to say that it was an awesome book. Wrapped up everything in a fairly elegant, heroic way without drowning us in too much cheese (ignoring that thing they call Nineteen Years Later), had me entirely absorbed and rooted to my seat for a full 6 hours straight (it was rather embarrassing; I was in the aisle seat and every time the lady next to me wanted to get out for something I'd have to be poked repeatedly to be dragged back into rl), and gave me easily the best plane trip I'd ever had.
In general I think JKR concluded everything fairly well, again ignoring the Nineteen Years Later, mostly because if it had just ended where the story, well, ended, we would at least be left freely to imagine that Harry eventually dumped Ginny and went on to marry, who knows, even Luna Lovegood would've been better, though that's still a bit of a =/ for me; the only het pairing I've ever really shipped for Harry was Harry/Cho, despite the amount of people that dispute it. I'm all for Harry/Luna friendship, but er, not more than that.
Harry/Ginny just never struck true for me. I found it tolerable, and didn't detest it so much that it interfered with my reading (like FitzChivalry/Molly in the Assassin series), but it was still very, eh, forced. I mean, look at the progression.
Philosopher's Stone: Insignificant little sister, receives a mention as "a small girl, also red-headed," who "pipes" a lot. Eager to see Harry Potter, although mostly it seems because he's famous: "Oh, Mom, can I go on the train and see him, Mom, oh please..."
No further mention of her except at the very end, when the Trio gets off the train and she squeals and points at Harry because she's too little to have proper manners. So it's set up from the very beginning that Ginny's got a slightly unhealthy fangirl obsession over Harry Potter. How does that make for a good relationship in the future? All right, I know he's 11 and she's 10 at this point, but still.
Chamber of Secrets: OK, now she's in Hogwarts, and in fact, the focal point of the book. You know, the one trapped in the chamber and all that. More obsessive fangirlness... jokes about her and Colin making a Harry Potter fanclub, etc etc. Super shy, can't even talk to Harry properly, and you sort of get the idea of how she's like from the end, when Harry saves her and she begins blubbering all over the place ("I'm going to be expelled! I've looked forward to coming to Hogwarts ever since B-Bill came and n-now I'll have to leave and - w-what'll Mum and Dad say?"). Reasonable, she's 11 and a first year... I'm sure Harry's heroic saving of her helped further her fangirlish obsession...
Prisoner of Azkaban: Ginny's hardly mentioned at all. I mean, she's around sometimes, but never more than a minor side character, there only to be brushed aside when the major characters come in. (e.g., "'I need to talk to you in private,' Harry muttered to Ron and Hermione as the train picked up speed. 'Go away, Ginny,' said Ron. 'Oh, that's nice,' said Ginny huffily, and she stalked off.")
Goblet of Fire: "[Hermione and Ginny] smiled at Harry, who grinned back, which made Ginny go scarlet" – so the Harry obsession's still there, aside from that, she's much the same as in the third book. She can talk to him now, which is a bit of an improvement, and in general you see that she's more or less elevated to the same level of Harry's other friends (not, obviously, as close as the Trio, but perhaps Neville-wise?). Still, one thinks of her as the little-sister-with-a-crush-on-famous-Potter.
Harry, on the other hand, starts his Cho obsession, which doesn't make Ginny too happy ("'I asked her to go with me just now,' Harry said dully... Ginny had suddenly stopped smiling."), and Ginny ends up going to the Yule Ball with Neville, because no one else'd really ask her, right? And she needs a fourth year to ask her in order to go. She becomes miserable when she finds out about Harry and Ron's predicament (no one to go with! ha.) probably because she could've then gone with Harry if only she hadn't accepted Neville's offer...
Order of the Phoenix: THIS BOOK. This. Here. Is where I really stopped liking Ginny, as a character. Her personality makes about a 180 degree turnaround, all of her insecurities seem to have disappeared, she's going out with Michael Corner, and all of a sudden she's turned from this moderately shy, sweet girl into this girl with a fierce personality, a lot of guts, who's smart, funny, and pretty much perfect. Hello? These things don't just happen, wtf. She becomes open, sociable, is one of the few who can talk with Harry when he's in one of his moods (this is the CAPSLOCK SPAM volume, recall), and the little sister from before seems completely to have disappeared.
According to this interview of Rowling,
Field: Do you plan for Ginny to take on a major character role in the next two books?
JK Rowling replies -> Well, now that Ginny has stopped being mute in Harry's presence I think you can see that she is a fairly forceful personality (and she always has been, remember Ron saying that she 'never shuts up' in Chamber of Secrets)?
That... just really pisses me off, I'm sorry. It just doesn't add up, for me. And then in a mugglenet interview, she describes Ginny to be "tough" and "gutsy" and even more, the "ideal girl for Harry."
ew. (Sorry to any Ginny fans out there.)
She's "funny," "very warm and compassionate."
Yeah, I suppose. Ginny's all of these things. In the fifth book. What about the first four? They just don't match for me, personally. That one bit where the twins converse about Ginny's talent for Quidditch and Hermione tells them "She's been breaking into your broom shed in the garden since the age of six and taking each of your brooms out in turn when you weren't looking." Okay. I am able to moderately accept the fact that after Chamber and all that she's been through, Ginny matured a lot and somehow managed to become who she is now, even if it smacks somewhat unrealistic to me, but now. You are saying that little shy 11-year-old who was incredibly insecure and girlish and confided all her deepest feelings to a talking diary used to secretly break into a broomshed and fly around on stolen brooms when she was 6?
It could work, I suppose. If you twist the facts around and go through a lot of explanation, it could make perfect logical sense, but intuitively Ginny Weasley, at this point, died for me. It could be my slight bias against strongheaded female characters, but I've read some of those that I've really, really liked, such as Althea. but Ginny. just. GAH.
RON: "we won. Did you see the look on Chang's face when Ginny got the Snitch right out from under her nose?"
Symbolism, is that?
Blah.
Half-Blood Prince: Okay, I don't even feel like going into this one. Suffice it to say that the book was excellent, but the romance bits of it were utter failure? JKR's not good at romance, wtf. Turn Lavender Brown into a snogpuppet, throw Ron and Hermione into fits of jealousy over each other, Ginny suddenly becomes a popular heroine, and Harry suddenly discovers he likes her. ffft. What does he really know about Ginny? =/ honestly.
Deathly Hallows: The Ginny bits in this book sort of irritated me. She wasn't even useful to the plot now, Luna's more helpful than she is on most occasions, Harry's random thoughts of her were just sort of eh *skim* material. Smacks of FitzChivalry and Molly after she gets together with Burrich. Cho offering to take Harry to Ravenclaw was ♥♥♥, Ginny making Luna take him instead was wtf.
Nineteen Years Later was sort of pfffff blah again. Though the Draco part was lovely. Scorpius. Scorpius! Ahahahahaha. Draco and Scorpius. The Malfoys have a penchant for weird names, don't they?
Er, right. I really didn't mean to have that Ginny tangent be so long. Back to the book? ==;;
Anyway, about the bits I loved in this book!
A lot of characters, both minor and major, fleshed out so much, and omg I heart them to pieces. Harry. ahhhhhh, I loved Harry in this book. No longer a bellowing twit all day, eh? I was actually glad that he didn't die. :D
Ron and Hermione were awesome as well. Especially Ron. The abandonment and subsequent return was brilliant. I basically hearted the Trio to pieces in this book. And I've come to like the Ron/Hermione pairing.
Minor characters, though. Kreacher. Oh, Kreacher. I feel so mean for all the bad things I've thought about you in the past. T___T Poor Kreacher. Poor poor Kreacher.
And actually, Dudley. The cup of tea made me laugh, and Big D made me laugh even harder, but I'm tolerant of him now.
Aunt Petunia!!! I've always secretly thought that about her, but now that it's been seen and proven in Snape's memories it makes her so much more of a real person, you know what I mean. Before, the entire family of Dursleys were just two dimensional. Though Uncle Vernon hasn't improved much.
And Snape. gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Snape. I'm so sorry I ever doubted you. T___T My sister is still in denial. She's convinced Snape is the bad guy. The entire pensieve scene struck me as a sort of convenient info-dump, but it made me sad anyways. Unrequited love! Oh, poor Snape. And the silver doe... :(
(I went back and read the first couple of books after this, and the characterization didn't actually match that well; I'm not sure JKR originally intended the Snape/Lily thing, but in any case it really doesn't matter. The characters developed as she wrote.)
Dumbledore's backstory was awesome. Dumbledore and Grindelwald!! One of the best pairings to come out of this~
I sort of hoped Draco would have a bigger part in this. Narcissa, at the end, made me laugh, it was so perfect, though I was a bit surprised that Lucius also cared so much. Fandom's sort of led me to automatically assume Lucius was the coldblooded, uncaring father as he is so often portrayed. But back to Draco. You know the very end?
VOLDEMORT: BWAHAHAHA I have the Elder Wand! YOU DIE NOW.
HARRY: Actually, it's not yours.
VOLDIE: Bzuh?
HARRY: The rightful owner is Draco!
DRACO: Wha?
ME: YESYES go Draco go! Take it and defeat him! DO SOMETHING!
DRACO: Well, all right th-
HARRY: But as I have conveniently defeated Draco earlier, it is now mine!
ME: ......
DRACO: ......
VOLDIE: ......
--;; sigh. How very disappointing.
One of the other things that bugged me about this series was how many convenient plot twists just always popped out so that the Trio survived, or got out of a tight spot etc etc. Okay, so we find out the doe comes from Snape, so that's all right. Dobby's timely arrival on orders of Aberforth just seemed a bit ehhhh. I know there's been hints of it all along, but still. I mean, if he was watching the whole time, couldn't he do something about it earlier?
Oh yeah, Aberforth. DID I MENTION I LOVE HIM? Gawd, Aberforth. Possibly one of my favoritest characters ever. I wish he'd had a bigger part. But ahahahahahahahahhaa.
"It's a goat, idiot!" ♥♥♥
And also, oh, sword! Basilisk fang! Conveniently disposes of Horcruxes. Wonderful. And the last Horcrux?
TRIO: Alas, we have no sword!
DIADEM: *crack*
HERMIONE: Oh, that must have conveniently been Fiendfyre! Which destroys Horcruxes!
TRIO: Oh, all's well then! On with the quest!
*snort*
"The Trace, the Trace!" said Mad-Eye impatiently, "The charm that detects magical activity around under-seventeens, the way the Ministry finds out about underage magic! If you, or anyone around you, casts a spell to get you out of here, Thicknesse is going to know about it, and so will the Death Eaters."
I think that explains it away well enough. Kudos to JKR, and cookies to everyone. :D
Aside from that, I don't think there were too many other inconsistencies that caught my eye, aside from inconsistent characterization, which has been happening left, right, and upside-down, and that I'm just going to ignore for the most part, because, hey, willing suspension of disbelief! Not exactly the proper use of that phrase, but I mean, if JKR got better, more in-depth ideas about her characters that were obviously not intended back when she wrote the first book, you can't really blame her, eh? I enjoyed reading the fleshed-out characters, who cares if they weren't originally intended to be so cool. :) [/edit]
R.A.B. slightly anticlimactic, Dumbledore already dying from
I actually liked the King's Cross scene at the end. :D This book made me like Dumbledore so much more~
Again, Nineteen Years Later was =/ . No one named after Fred? HOW COULD THEY. T____T Fred, oh Fred...
Right, did she really have to kill off so many? So casually? Hedwig. In wut, the first 50 pages or so. WHATWHATWHAT. WAHHHHHHH. DX
Mad-Eye I didn't care about so much. Though halfway in the book I thought he revived for a while, and it turned out to be a Tongue-Tying Curse. >>
Dobby's death happened too quickly for real impact, Remus and Tonks didn't even GET proper deaths wtf. I didn't like Remus so much here. Don't y'all miss him from the good old days?
"Quiet!" said a hoarse voice suddenly.
Professor Lupin appeared to have woken up at last. Harry could hear movements in his corner. None of them spoke.
There was a soft, crackling noise, and a shivering light filled the compartment. Professor Lupin appeared to be holding a handful of flames. They illuminated his tired, gray face, but his eyes looked alert and wary.
"Stay where you are," he said in the same hoarse voice, and he got slowly to his feet with his handful of fire held out in front of him.
hehehe.
And on a random note, that random appearance of Krum and his random line: "Vot is the point of being an international Quidditch player if all the good-looking girls are taken?" just made me laugh so hard. So hard. ahahaha.
Ron, too: "And what in the name of Merlin’s most baggy Y Fronts was that about?"
*cracks up and dies* XDDD
Okay, I'm done (I think) with my spoilers and wanking and complaints etc. Anyone who's read the book, please come discuss with me! /is completely HPbrained right now and can't think of much else XD;
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Date: 2007-07-30 06:25 pm (UTC)LOL, Ginny Wank.
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Date: 2007-07-31 01:47 am (UTC)but that was v. amusing. /amused :D
Ron Weasley: date rapist, hypocrite, general idiot, total chickenshit, whiny bitch, manic depressive, double dealer and bloodthirsty savage!! XDD
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Date: 2007-07-31 03:04 am (UTC)heyz, join my food meme :D
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Date: 2007-08-02 10:09 pm (UTC)8DDDDD as;ldkghas ;lgk I like to see food, yes. 8DDD
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Date: 2007-07-31 02:18 am (UTC)The Trace detects any magic nearby, whether it's done by the person with the Trace or anybody else. So, they cannot tell if Harry is the performer of magic or not--they just assume that if magic happens near him, it was his doing, because there are not supposed to be any other wizards in his vicinity back at Privet Drive. Thus, the Trace wouldn't be too effective with someone like Ron, as he's pretty much constantly nearby his wizarding family members. Thus, I don't find the Trace to be a very inconsistent point.
"Dumbledore already dying from potion slightly anticlimactic"
Dumbledore was actually dying from the curse placed on the ring.
Again, Nineteen Years Later was =/ . No one named after Fred? HOW COULD THEY. T____T Fred, oh Fred...
The original epilogue contained much, much more, including the names of every child born to the Weasley clan in the last 19 years. JKR revealed in a Bloomsbury webchat yesterday that George's first child was named Fred. You can find the webchat (it's really interesting and answers a lot of questions) on leakynews.com or mugglenet.com
Hedwig's and Dobby's deaths made me sob so much. Jo tells us why she decided to kill Hedwig in that webchat I mentioned.
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Date: 2007-07-31 02:35 am (UTC)mmmm right, missed that. Though the general point was that fans had speculated so much about how Dumbledore was already dying and maybe Snape killed him on request that, well, when it actually happened, it wasn't too surprising.
Oh good, so George didn't die of grief. I was sort of worried there.
T______T Hedwig, oh Hedwig. /wails
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Date: 2007-08-01 02:26 am (UTC)