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To those who have read the book, what did you think of it? :D

I liked it. Ron lived, and that was all I really needed to be happy, but I thought the plot was all right, Voldemort got to do some evil villain stuff, Snape was good, Ginny was assertive, Tonks and Lupin had a shotwand marriage, Xenophilus Lovegood and Aunt Muriel were great new characters, and 'ships I like got together.

There were some issues I had with it, like the absence of good Slytherins beside Regulus, Snape (praised by Dumbledore for being Gryffindor-brave), Slughorn (cowardly), and arguably the Malfoys (only out for each other), and the way Ron didn't do as much as the other two of the Trio.

But I found it pleasurable, more so than I expected, and I'm sad it's over. :) What do you others think of it?

Oh yes, I finished it a few hours ago.

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Seeing as Snape was my favorite character after Sirius, I'm pleased he didn't turn out evil. My friends would have teased me for days. I'm upset about Remus and Mad Eye, and I'm still a little bit squicked about Harry and Ginny (So I'll just ignore it) Not that I don't like Ginny, but...not a shipper.

I didn't like that Hedwig died. Is nothing sacred anymore? The Dark Lord has to go blowing up owls too?! Leave the owls alone!

I'm very sad the series is over, and I'm sure years from now I'll still be lurking ff.net's Harry Potter page.

i got it at midnight! it is awsome. well i have only got to chapter 7 in 3 hrs.[fast reader]. i like it. except for when hedwig dies. :(

Don't tell me that Hedwig's one of the two chracters killed off in the book... :eep:

Btw, I heard that Harry lives and had kids? Is this true? :unsure:


PS: I didn't read the novels, but I would like to know what happens next. :poof:

yes she is if you go to wikpeda then it will tell you who dies and why did Fred Weasley die? What did he ever do to lord voldermort?

I'm too much of a scrooge to spend my money on it. (yeah yeah, bah humbug and the rest of it) but I just borrowed it from the library, and OMG!! Harry and Ginners! CREEPY!!! I never liked that pairing....

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I thought only 2 main chartacters were supposed to die. Snape, one of the weasly twins, Tonks, Lupin, Voldemort, Hedwig, Colin Creevy and the list goes on Correct me if Im wrong but int that a bit more than 2? I think its cool though that Harry did died but just for a little while. I bet Neville got Prof.Sprouts old job at herboligy. I hope that the school made a portrait of Snape. I stil dont understand how Draco was the master of the wand and then Harry in turn got it. Guess Ill have to reread it. I love the part where Mrs Weazly duels Bellatrix and wins.

Nah, that was a misquote. She actually said that two more died than she'd expected and one got a reprieve; that character was revealed here. (Needless to say so far down in the thread titled with the book's name, spoilers apply.)

It's really not that many characters. I think most of the deaths were fairly inevitable--last of the Marauders, one of the Weasleys, the bad guys, the ambiguous Snape, one more mentor-figure in Mad-Eye... She could have killed off Neville, Ginny or Luna, or even Hermione and Ron to make it more tragic, although of course she's never been all that bloodthirsty.

But they killed off dobby!!! Why him?! He was a fan favourite.

I cant believe Lupin died, he was my favourite character. I nearly cried. (I only just finished reading the book about half an hour ago). It was pretty good, but i didnt like the way it ended. Harry and Ginny is not my favourite pairing.

Another quescion:
Did you bought it?
So I did not. My friend was send me it :) it kindly good. :).

I only got my book yesterday (my cousin ordered it for me and he lives far away from my house) I finished reading it in about 5 hours (insanely fast reader. I got in trouble at school for reading too fast)

Okay, I hate the GinnyxHarry ship. <_< Ginny is a Mary-Sue and plus, I just hate her. <_< She just goes about so many guys. In my terms, she's a *bleep* in my books. <_<

I hate that Dobby died! :( And there were dragons in Gringotts :) And Ron was being a selfish *bleep* about helping Harry.

Poor Remus and Tonks! They died when the baby was not even a year old! :(

Who knew that Snape had a crush on Lily? Maybe he hated James because of it? :unsure:

Dudley actually liked Harry! That's a twist I never expected!

To me, the epilogue was horrible. I didn't like what happened to Harry. He got stuck with *bleep* Ginny! <_<

The list of people who died are:
Crabbe
Tonks :(
Resmus :(
Fred Weasly :(
Dobby :(
Voldmort
Pettigrew
Colin Creevy
Hedwig
Mad Eye Moody
Snape

I think that's all of them. Four people dying is waaay off!

I thought that Lily's Patrounus was the Silver Doe. Instead, it was Snape. THat surprised me.

The hell? Yes, yes, Ginny was given inadequate character development between books four and five and has been designed as Harry's ideal more than her own person, &c, but how dare you condemn her for having three boyfriends, in high school, in two years? (Oh, and she went to the Yule Ball with Neville. How totally evil of her to go with one of her brother's friends as his second choice to one of his friends.)

People have romantic relationships. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with this, especially if you're a woman. There's a double standard that men don't get called on for having more than one relationship in their lives--"stud" versus "bleep"--and frankly I think it's ridiculous. Sexual pleasure is a good in itself, and if Ginny had been of legal age and had wanted to have safe sex with Michael, Dean and Harry (or all three at once), good for her. If I wasn't so into my computer, I'd want to have sex, with more than one person, sample different cookies before settling down with one flavour, and I don't want to get married either. If that makes me morally inferior, good to know.

For me, I was thrilled when Ginny (in my reading) offered Harry sex on his birthday. It's really nice to see the woman taking the initiative (I'm sure she was sixteen, or close enough anyway :P). Ginny Weasley Rocks (written pre-DH)!

Finally theres something I can agree with you on. I hate the fact that Men get called studs when women get labeld as somerthing bad when they are doing the same thing. In my book I personally dissagree with fooling around out of wedlock and so especially a guy I frown down on because I know what its like for a guy. I think that any guy that does that should be just labeld a Lecher and ignored.

Other things is that I thought it was awesome that Crabbe actually managed to do such a powerfull curse such as Fiendfyre. I hope that in the seventh movie they do justice for that part. Its also awesome Harry dies but just for a little while.

Oh, I didn't mean anything offensive to any of you. I just really hate Ginny and her character.

I read it all in one day and it hurt. My neck hurt, my eyes hurt and my heart hurt. Were hurt, anyway. I literally wrenched the book from the hands of a cousin while on the train and physically kept it away from her the whole way home. :P

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I love how Snape wasn't evil. He wasn't a good person but he wasn't evil. :dance:

I'm sad so many characters died though. I liked a lot of them! I'm also sad the series is at an end but like they, all good things must.

My mom gave me her copy so now I have ny own. Go mothers who give their daughters their books! :dance:

poor lupin. he was a good guy. the book is sad though. :( :( :(
p.s. i am a huge lupin fan!

I liked it. It lagged a bit in the middle, when they were just moving around the place, but it picked up when they broke into Gringotts and flew away on the dragon (animal liberation for the win!). The battle at the end was EPIC. I wasn't too happy about the many deaths in the book-especially Lupin, because he'd managed to settle down, had a wife and kid, and then he DIED-but I really liked how everything was more-or-less wrapped up and finished by the end.

The epilogue was cute, though I saw it less as a way to keep the series open-ended and more as a parody of fanfiction (because who seriously names their kid Scorpius?!).

I read it fairly soon after it came out, after pleading, pestering and begging my friend to lend it to me. I'm not tightfisted, especially when it coemes to something actually worthwhile that some poor artist has put their heart and soul into, like books, cartoons, manga, comics and art, but my set is paperback, and I'm funny about having my books matching.

You have no idea how much satissfaction I had out of grinding the fact that I was right all along about Snape into certain people's faces. I didn't predict the Lily thing (Oh my God! how did a million Mary Sue's predict something I DIDN'T!? :() but i was one of the more vocal Pro Snape people when the debate popped up, even when he killed Dumbledore.

I wasn't surprised when more people then originally quoted died, nor too surprised about who. I KNEW Voldy and Pettigrew would go, I strongly suspected Snape wouldn't last the series. Fred, Lupin, Tonks, Dobby and Hedwig were sad, but not startling- Women writers are far better at doing outrageously sad/cruel things then men... and usually more creatively.

I was absolutely DELIGHTED when Lucius reappeared. I love Lucius, he's so very... possible as a character. Also, it means he'll be in the last movie (Apparently, jason Isaacs was the first to sign on, which DOES NOT surprise me, he's probably the most enthusiastic cast member. Watch the interviews on Youtube... he's HILARIOUS...) and he's hot... for me.. being older... and addicted to arrogant, evil rich, intelligent fictional men...
...As long as they have two eyebrows...
...Not one...

I enjoyed it throughly, it kept me guessing till the end, which I adore. It was a suitably climatic finish, had a nicely realistic death toll, the Malfoy family survived. She DID fall into the "happily ever after" trap witht he pairings, but I can ignore that. There were many classic moments to make me laugh my arse off (Pretty much the entire wedding scene up to Shaklebolt's warning, for example) and many many typically girly-hyper emotional, overly-into-it moments of putting the book down until i stopped crying.

I'm sad the era is over... but we still have the last two films to look forward to, and she DID mention and interest in writing a magical world encyclopedia, which should be a good read...

*finds kid* YOur new name is Scorpius.

(days later)

*finds kid* Holy mother-! You got a tattoo and your like this tough guy who scares the stuffing out of me! And you're going to jail!

That's just the way my mind works on that name.

Actually, Lily's Patronus is a doe. Snape's undying love for Lily made his patronus a doe too.

I finished reading the book in thirteen hours. Yes, the witchy hour. Why not? It is a book about wizards and witches. If you read Wikipedia, you will realize Harry is a uncle himself. Dudley is not just an uncle, he is a father too. :P Read Wikipedia, if you do not believe me. While Dudley is on good terms with his cousin, his children were 'injected' with his father's blood. It means, his children are acting like a younger Dudley.
I was sad, when Remus, Peter, and Snape died. I loved the prince now. He is a valiant prince, that Snape.