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"Deathly Hallows" (Spoilers!!!)

The General said:
Incidentally, I realised later that Neville got the sword from the Sorting Hat but with Harry having lost it to Griphook during the raid on Gringotts, it still makes you wonder how Neville managed to pull it out.
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Griphook was talking out of his arse when he said that the sword belonged to the Goblins.

In the sense that the sword can truly be said to have any owner at all, it belongs to the spirit of Godric Gryffindor. And therefore, any true Gryffindor can summon it out of the Sorting Hat if there is a real, genuine need.
 
hmmm...

my 2 cents:

i liked it a lot. very action packed. one minute everything was quiet and the next you were running away like mad. pretty good.

lets see.... Liked: the fact that some people/creatures had to die, otherwise it would have been too easy. Liked: the fact that i was able to guess a little bit about what was going to happen from the clues left in the previous books. Liked: the ending which tied it all up and yet continued the potter-genre with future characters at school.

Did Not Like: the way 3 magical items never mentioned before (the hallows [yeah yeah, the cloak, i know]) were such a focus in this last book. Did Not Like: the fact that the self-intelligent wands were such a focus, like above. Did Not Like: the fact that umbridge, malfoy, and some others apparently get off scot-free. Did Not Like: Crabbe being the one who destroys a fucking horcrux with a fire-spell that some death-eater may have taught him while all the focus was on how hard it was to kill the things - hail Crabbe, destroyer of relics and the almost impervious horcruxes.

the Did Not Like list does not spoil the book or series though. it was well done, and i even noticed the increase in nudity that the book brings out. clearly rowling is a tramp...

good writer though....
 
Okay, I really HATTTTTED this last installment i mean so so so cliche : (( Harry escapes death like 18000 times and hermoine heals him some how with some potion and the way he just killed Vol... and the bitching about hermoine's food, ron running away, crying about how dumbledore left no clues for them, and just the end reveal, "harry, i had to make you go through all that crap so you could be strong enough to accept death and realize you're the only wizard that can handle the Deathly Hallows" UGH so just ugh cliche i can't stand it the the whole ghosts appearing out of no where to pump harry up to his death basically.

Sry if that seemed like iwas bitching but i mean i spent 20 dollars... and i expected something better just i mean she calls this herself, "an epic story" hardly the end to an epic story IMO
 
your the only one so far to hate the book. i didn't find anything cliche in the book. IMO

sorry it was a bad experience for you though.
 
Finished it last Night.

The whole way through I was on knife edge afraid of who would die. Each one shocked me, I thought I would numb to it, I actually found myself crying with both happiness and sadness during the final chapters.

As for the epilogue I wish Dudley's son or Daughter were on the platform because I really wanted to know what had happened them.

I rise a glass of Firewhiskey to the fallen and all those who fought. I'll miss these books.
 
Walking round the supermarket I saw a MOUNTAIN of Deathly Hallows books and I just couldn't control myself - I picked one up and read the last chapter. So now I know EVERYTHING!!!!!!
 
pianodude said:
I think the "Order...", "Half-blood Prince", and "Deathly Hallows" were the best books out of the series. The first few chapters moved along really quickly and were enjoyable, but some of the middle chapters were pretty weak. I really did love the end of the book though, coming back to Hogwarts, etc...I was quite surprised at how FEW deaths there were. It was kind of strange how Voldemort stopped the fighting and gave Harry time. There were quite a few times I got shivers...the book was pretty exciting...especially when Percy came back and joined the good side.

Oh, and the Epilogue...what a waste of space. Duh...Harry & Ginny...Ron & Hermione...kids...ooooh Malfoy spawned a new enemy. Thanks J.K. how revealing.
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Actually, wikipedia kept a running tally and 20 characters died, and according to the book 50 or so people lost their lives, so thats another 30 un named deaths.
 
There was a significance to Harry's eyes. It was the last thing Snape saw was Lily Potter's eyes. It wasn't what kept Snape loyal at all, it was his love for Lily and Harry's eyes have nothing to do with that.

Frankly I suspected far more people to do die than did among our major known characters, or to put it another way, people in the Order of the Phoenix. Lupin, Tonks, and Snape are all that come to mind (of course, Sirius and Dumbledore from previous books). Really, the baddest badass in the wizarding world comes back and only 50 people die?

I like the book though. I didn't have trouble with the tent for most of the book because thats frankly how I thought it would be. They are all what, 16-17 years old. They act like it.

I loved the development to Dumbledore which made him much more human and frankly realistic. Also makes Fudge look a lot less paranoid from OotP.

And Snape. His story was by far my favorite of the book. It wasn't surprising. There was little doubt to me that Snape was on the side of the order even though he didn't like Harry at all. I would have loved a chapter or two of how Hogwarts was like from the perspective of say Neville who also jumped way up in how much I liked him. But man, Snape's life sucked more so than I could have even written.

The epilogue sucked, but my biggest hate in the whole part was the names of Harry's kid being so fan fictiony. But really, I knew it was going to suck as soon as I hit it.
 
dunno260 said:
There was a significance to Harry's eyes. It was the last thing Snape saw was Lily Potter's eyes. It wasn't what kept Snape loyal at all, it was his love for Lily and Harry's eyes have nothing to do with that.

Frankly I suspected far more people to do die than did among our major known characters, or to put it another way, people in the Order of the Phoenix. Lupin, Tonks, and Snape are all that come to mind (of course, Sirius and Dumbledore from previous books). Really, the baddest badass in the wizarding world comes back and only 50 people die?

I like the book though. I didn't have trouble with the tent for most of the book because thats frankly how I thought it would be. They are all what, 16-17 years old. They act like it.

I loved the development to Dumbledore which made him much more human and frankly realistic. Also makes Fudge look a lot less paranoid from OotP.

And Snape. His story was by far my favorite of the book. It wasn't surprising. There was little doubt to me that Snape was on the side of the order even though he didn't like Harry at all. I would have loved a chapter or two of how Hogwarts was like from the perspective of say Neville who also jumped way up in how much I liked him. But man, Snape's life sucked more so than I could have even written.

The epilogue sucked, but my biggest hate in the whole part was the names of Harry's kid being so fan fictiony. But really, I knew it was going to suck as soon as I hit it.
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well more than fifty people died. hundreds of people died including muggles and what not. plus he was a little busy trying to find the Elder Wand.
 
just finished it and was so engrossed by it -

thanks for all the comments here, it cleared up a few things for me (like how Neville got the sword) and I suppose Hedwig died early as there was no place for that dear owl in the rest of the book
 
dang3rz0ne88 said:
I liked it, the 4th and 6th book are still my favorites though. The only time I cried was when Dobby died. The way Harry had handled the situation was moving. Also I would have liked there to be more in the Epilouge. I wanted to know what happened to the rest of the Weasleys, Dursleys, Xeno Lovegood.
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That makes two of us.
 
How the hell did Neville get the sword, I know it came out of the sorting hat. But did that mean no matter what it belonged to Griffendore and those in his house?
 
My copy of the novel came from the UK, so I've just finished reading it today. I can't believe many supporting characters died, like Mad-Eye, Dobby, Fred, Lupin and Tonks, totally unecessary.I think the epilogue is OK, but many survivors of the Final Battle should have been mentioned in the epilogue, like Luna, the other Weasleys,also muggles like the Grangers and of course the Dursleys.

However, I have three questions, if J.K.Rowling didn't want to write more about the Dursleys, then why did she mention that Lily's sister wanted to be a witch too in the chapter of "Thde Prince's Tale", who had also acted pretty strangely at the beginning of "The Order of the Phoenix"? And She added Luna in the fifth book, is she supposed to be more important than that in "Deathly Hallows"? Or J.K.Rowling just wanted Luna to make it easier for her to bring a new character(Luna's father) to introduce the Deathly Hallows?
 
VanHiscers said:
My copy of the novel came from the UK, so I've just finished reading it today. I can't believe many supporting characters died, like Mad-Eye, Dobby, Fred, Lupin and Tonks, totally unecessary.I think the epilogue is OK, but many survivors of the Final Battle should have been mentioned in the epilogue, like Luna, the other Weasleys,also muggles like the Grangers and of course the Dursleys.

However, I have three questions, if J.K.Rowling didn't want to write more about the Dursleys, then why did she mention that Lily's sister wanted to be a witch too in the chapter of "Thde Prince's Tale", who had also acted pretty strangely at the beginning of "The Order of the Phoenix"? And She added Luna in the fifth book, is she supposed to be more important than that in "Deathly Hallows"? Or J.K.Rowling just wanted Luna to make it easier for her to bring a new character(Luna's father) to introduce the Deathly Hallows?
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i think it was more that it went along with the princes tale. made the story sound a little bit natural, and showed why Petunia dispised Harry so much. and more why she despised her sister so much. i dont think there was a deeper meaning there. I think she added Luna just to add Luna. She was a funny character with great comic relief and she was critical for the story in the fifth book. I guess JK found a even higher purpose for her and her father in the last book. And we all like Luna so why not have her in there?
 
I agree. i happen to love Luna, and she's one of the characters who keeps an open mind (as her father says). Luna is open enough to believe things when they seem so improbable to others, like she was in five. Sometimes Harry needs that from somebody.

Plus, her attitude is refreshing for readers. She breaks the hectic stress of scenarios (like the imprisonment, the final celebration) with her buoyant and relaxed perspective.

I only wish there was mention of Luna in the epilogue and a second appearance and reconciliation with Xenophilius. When Molly runs in to fight Bellatrix, I first thought it was Xenophilius, which would have been way awesome. Not to mention that I always figured Neville would be the one to stop Bellatrix, but being one of the Horcrux destroyers was almost as good.

I was surprised that Lupin and Tonks died, but in all honesty, the amount of the supporting cast was realistic for her books. I always figured that trained wizards like Death Eaters would be more accurate with their instant death spells, so it always struck me as a bit lucky that so many survived up until the 7th. The only time I didn't find it unbelievable was in six when they all drank the Felix Felicitus potion--I mean that at least explained why they were so lucky to be unscathed.

In enclosed hallways, you're not always going to be able to dodge spells. If they had all made it out except one person, I'd be a bit disappointed in the immortality of the characters she wrote.

This was obviously an opportunity that Rowling took to tie up as many loose ends as possible since it was her last. She threw everything together, like Petunia's resentment and the true nature of her complex. She was able to leave almost all her minor antagonists slightly human (the Malfoys, Dudley, Petunia...), the only exception being, perhaps, Vernon and Rita Skeeter.

I'm pissed that Rita never got what was due to her. What a bitch!

But I do wish the epilogue could have been just a tad longer to include those other characters...Maybe Fleur and Bill's kids, a bit more of Teddy and his relationship growing up with Harry and what harry ended up doing as a career or what George ended up doing...

But still...felt like a Harry Potter epic...I needed a cig.
 
For those of you with questions JK Rowling hosted a live web chat on Bloomsbury's official website where she answered several questions about Deathly Hallows here is the link
 
JK Rowling explained so much... but still.... i wish she detailed those stuff in the actual book.... not like she doesn't have enough editors and stuff that should have pointed out to her that the epilogue is not sufficient...
 
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