Harry Potter

I can't wait to read it! I'm going to take it to Cuba!

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Originally Posted by Lily Adams

I was at my friend's house earlier today, and she got her copy in the mail by the time I got there. Her little sister was curious and looked through the last few pages of the book, and her sister got confused and wanted to ask me a question since

1. I'm not a fan, but I used to be, so I could at least help with the plot a little. Even though I don't remember much because I don't care.
2. My friend didn't want ANY spoilers.
3. Spoilers obviously don't matter with me anymore.

so she dragged me into her room and showed me the end. This is my opinion:

I think the epilogue is...really bad. It reminds me of fanfiction. Bad fanfiction that makes baby Jesus emo. And me emo. Anyone else agree?

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yes the bit at the end was very disapointing! But over all i really enjoyed the book! I bawled my eyes at the bit with the grave at rons bros house!(i hope this doesnt spoil anything as i havent mentioned what happened etc!)

I didn't cry but it was rather sad... I mean It just happened out of nowhere, I couldn't believe she killed that character off... Many of the other deaths just seemed random as well...

I feel like I have read the book already. I just can't stop myself from reading spoilers. Good thing I care more for the text rather than "how it ends".

I have to admit, I have had very very few gripes about any of the Harry Potter books/movies, etc. :thumbs_up I really really liked #7. EXCEPT FOR THE STINKY epilogue!! :rage: I am trying to justify this. Maybe I was expecting too much, and after you have had 6 awesome hits, it would be kind of hard to continue to duplicate. However, I was glad to see that Harry didn't die at the end....but to get married and have kids with Ginny somewhat irked me...lol. To this moment, I have no clue why. I guessed Ron and Hermione....and was fine with that one. I just think that she should have stopped right before the...... "19 years later....":sick:

I think it was more to cement the theme/moral/lesson throughout the books about "choices" and whatnot... It was all about that part where he talked to his son in the end... Although it would have been funny if the last words have been "until now" instead...

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Originally Posted by Slrtwobee

I have to admit, I have had very very few gripes about any of the Harry Potter books/movies, etc. :thumbs_up I really really liked #7. EXCEPT FOR THE STINKY epilogue!! :rage: I am trying to justify this. Maybe I was expecting too much, and after you have had 6 awesome hits, it would be kind of hard to continue to duplicate. However, I was glad to see that Harry didn't die at the end....but to get married and have kids with Ginny somewhat irked me...lol. To this moment, I have no clue why. I guessed Ron and Hermione....and was fine with that one. I just think that she should have stopped right before the...... "19 years later....":sick:

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Well, I guess she wanted us to know that Ron and Hermione did in fact get together.

an that that was her way of showing that voldamort was truely gone, which i think was the purpose of the 19 years later bit, even if it was extremely cheesy. Also i think it was to show that he finally realised the truth of Snape and excepted that he was a brave man. Hence one of his sons being called Albus severus.
That really made me sobby in the book when he's seeing snapes memories...

too much for one who hasnt read the book yet :| ....
i shouldnt have come i shouldnt have come!! :bowling: i know i know!!
damn my ultra-curious mind! :bawling:

erm..harry dies?! and then comes back??! argh okay dont tell me....no tell me what happens!...no dont....erm...i'd better go read the book first!
damn!

The way they present Harrys death and ressurection is kind of religious, like he is being sacrificed for the good of the world.

Yeah, then some people come over and say "Harry Potter is really a book on satanism!"

did anyone else see the connections between Voldamort and his death eaters, and Hitler and the Nazis?

Well, if we suggest that the death mark is like the nazi symbol... and so on... but I think it's kind of far-fetched.

I prefer to avoid such connections, I only make such connections with things that I really like and it comes out bizzare anyway...

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Originally Posted by Niamh

did anyone else see the connections between Voldamort and his death eaters, and Hitler and the Nazis?

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yep, lots of reviews over here :)

i think they have a point, considering the Death Eaters racial ideology, their muggle-born registration thingy... Voldy's dad was a muggle and he's obsessed with pure blood, styling himself as the purest pure blood wizard of all... Hitler was an Austrian (an illegitimate son of a woman who was also married to her second cousin) who wanted to be the "purest" German of all times... his original last name was Schicklgruber...


i think it's interesting to draw these parallels... What would be so frightening and repulsive about Tommy Boy if there was no connection to 'real life'?
just because Voldy is a powerful wizard doesn't necessarily make him scary. it 's his aims and his means of reaching them that make him evil, not his powers as such.

.. by the way, I finished the book last night, and I was sooooooooooo proud of Snape...
of course, there were lots of theories (based on next to zero evidence) that he was in love with Lily..., so it was kind of predictable... but it was balm for my weary soul to read "The Prince's Tale" (ch. 33). he was a real hero, to protect the Potter brat for 17 years and spy on Voldy.

http://www.freesmileys.org/emo/love016.gifSnapehttp://www.freesmileys.org/emo/love029.gif
when I have a son I'll name him Severus (my b.f. doesn't like the idea at all)