OOP various comments (MAJOR spoilers)

[Richelle Votaw]

Before my spoiler space I'll say this much, I read for three and a half hours, slept from 4:30 AM until 9 AM, then read for another 4 1/2 hours.  Worth the wait, and a whole lot more.  So, as I've finished, anyone who is just dying to know and has specific questions, feel free to email me offlist (rvotaw at i-55.com) and I'll be happy to answer. :)  Oh, and for what it's worth, I laughed a lot, and cried a little.

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Okay, that should do.  First, I had so many people killed off in my mind as soon as something bad started, it was ridiculous.  Looking back, I should've realized as soon as we started finding out all of this about Sirius' past that he was doomed.  But I turned a blind eye, not wanting to accept the facts, and there you have it.  Me yelling out "Nooooooo!" when he died.  Yes, out loud.  And my mom sitting there going "Who?   Who?  Who is it? Dumbledore?"  But I didn't cry there.  Although much later, after I'd finished reading and was sitting in a wedding shower being completely bored thinking about it all, tears kept threatening.  I had a hard time not bursting into tears in the middle of the shower!  

And what else, let's see, boy, wouldn't I love to get ahold of Snape's pensieve.  While I admit we found out a bit more about him, nothing like I was hoping for!  At least, not as much as I was hoping for.  But we're definitely headed the right way.  

James was a bit of a surprise.  I think there is more than meets the eye there.  Didn't JKR say he was chaser?  And he is playing with a Snitch?  Maybe he changed positions?  Started as chaser and moved to seeker?  Or something else?  It's my thinking that this must have been before the "joke" Sirius played on Snape, sending him off to the Whomping Willow.  Maybe James changed after that?  Grew up a little?  Behaved himself better?  Or how else did he get to be head boy?  I thought Prefect was a requirement, apparently not.

Also, I kind of sort of understand Dumbledore's thinking about the prefect thing.  Not putting something else on Harry.  However, I think it was kind of stupid to make his best friend(s) both prefects.  I'd have given it to one of the other boys (Dean would've been my choice) just because.

I must say, I'm very pleased with the prophecy.  "Either must die at the hand of the other."  Not both.  Either.  Definition: "The one or the other; Any one of two."  So basically does this mean that only Voldemort can kill Harry and only Harry can kill Voldemort?  "For neither can live while the other survives." I take that to mean that they will always be interconnected unless one is killed.  Right?  

And finally, poor Neville.  Am I the only one who cried when he put the gum wrapper his mum gave him in his pocket?  Can I adopt Neville?

Richelle (about to start again!)


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