Those of you weirdos who haven't finished the book, be warned! Here be spoilers. Welcome to the post-Book 7 post! This might all be a little random and disjointed, but here are some of my thoughts.
Working backwards here, but I really liked the epilogue. I know we all wanted every single little detail, but that seems unrealistic and silly. The epilogue did a great job - I thought - at giving us just enough of a glimpse into the characters' lives to see that they end up happy. And I think the sort of normalcy of it underscored the significance of Harry's choice: he chose to have the relatively normal, loving family that he'd always wanted, rather than taking off with the Elder wand. It brings it back to what Dumbledore tells him after the "dies," about how so few people have looked into the Mirror or Erised and seen something so pure as what Harry saw. So it's kind of funny that some people have complained that the epilogue is boring - isn't that what Harry wanted?
The entire book was great, but a couple of quotations that I especially loved. Among them:
1. "NOT MY DAUGHTER YOU BITCH!" (Mrs. Weasley)
2. "Really gives a feeling for the scope and tragedy of the thing, doesn't it?" (Ron)
3. "So why in the name of Merlin's saggy left --" (Ron). (I assume that the omitted word is "testicle." Am I wrong? Is there a more appropriate, but less funny, noun that also fits? Because I think that "Merlin's saggy left testicle" might be my new swear phrase.)
4. "'Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?' Harry interrupted again.
'So he can sneak up on people,' said Ron. 'Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking . . . '"
5. Also - this isn't a quotation in the same way - but I loved "Here lies Dobby, a free elf."
I loved the way that the situation with Snape played out. One thing that's so great about the books is that, from the very beginning, all of the characters have been flawed, including the adults. Everyone loves a good anti-hero, and I think that's why we all love Snape, even with all his imperfections. Which brings me to another point, how I liked really seeing, at the end, what Dumbledore meant about how love is more powerful than any magic. And how Voldemort was blind to that fact, how he never realized that abusing Draco would cause the Malfoys to betray him.
Also . . . Alia and I bounced this around a little, so I'll go ahead and put evidence of our nerdiness on the web. People, do we think it's possible that Harry and Ginny's little excursions at the end of Book 6 might have gone a little farther than we'd previously suspected? Just take a look, for example, at pages 89-90.
In non-Harry Potter news, I just wanted to say a special hello to Jessa!! Congrats honey!
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I actually didnt like the epilogue but your explanation makes sense...
Couldn't give a toss about this Potter shite.
Yay for the post-Book 7 post! Some things that occurred to me:
1. Our theory about Snape was proven correct in the end. We are brilliant, Rach.
2. Wasn't it interesting to see Snape falling in love with Lily when they were kids? I especially liked seeing the interaction b/w Lily and Petunia -- now we know why she turned out to be such a wench and a hater: envy.
3. The love thing is also what was at work for the Malfoys -- they loved their son more than Voldemort. And thank goodness, because that allowed them to leave the dark side before they were destroyed, and it allowed Draco to grow up and be a semi-normal person.
4. I thought the Elder Wand thing was kind of dumb and didn't make sense. Even if Draco had disarmed Dumbledore, he never took possession of the wand, since Dumbledore was still somehow buried with it (no explanation there). And then, when Harry disarmed Draco, he took another wand from Draco -- not the Elder Wand. The chain of succession just wasn't there... especially since all the previous times possession of the wand had changed, the successive owner actually killed or stole it directly from its previous owner. I think JK was grasping for straws a little b/c she was trying to prevent Harry from actually killing Voldemort and trying to make Voldemort kill himself.
5. Ron was hilarious in this book. One of this quotations I liked was, "Always the tone of surprise."
6. Hermione is a genius -- I love her so much. I'm glad she redeemed herself in this book, particularly since she had a senior moment in Book 5 when she could've reminded Harry of
his mirror to Sirius and prevented that whole fiasco at the Ministry.
7. I'm sad that JK killed Fred -- it's so sad, especially when you think about how George is his other half and he'll never be the same now. Why couldn't she have killed stupid Percy? It would've been perfect for Percy to apologize and then get killed in the battle -- that would've been real redemption. And it would've been convenient, since no one likes him anyway.
8. Did she *have* to kill both Lupin and Tonks, and turn their poor kid into an orphan? That was a little much.
9. I love Dobby. I almost cried at the part where he sacrificed himself.
10. That part where the old lady turned into Nagini was horrifying and disgusting.
11. I liked meeting Aberforth -- jaded and pessimistic, but a good guy, and definitely Dumbledore's brother.
12. Neville is a bad ass.
Where have you been since August Rach? Are you using the magic bullet again? Write more!!!
I agree, for instance...whats your take on the Gena 6?
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