Chiming in my OOP thoughts!

[Serena Moonsilver]

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Ok, first of all I'm glad I'm not the only one crazy enought to try 
and read it in a day!

That said, I hardly ever put it down, ever took a break--so it became 
quite an emotional rollercoaster ride for me.   That said, here are 
my first impressions:

*The trio no longer a trio?  Or rather, while they may remain the 
core somewhat has the circle finally opened beyond H/H/R?  I believe 
we will see Neville and Ginny (and possibly Luna) be taken into 
confidence more now that they have proved themselves on this 
adventure, much in the same way the Hermione finished out the trio in 
book 1 after the troll fight.  Espically with the train ride to/from 
school with all of them in the same compartment.

*Gwarp will return.  I'm making this prediction now.

*I got one of my predictions right--Harry did get kicked off the 
Qudditch team.  Admittedly, I was half kidding at the time but well...

*Speaking of making predictions while kidding--it's been pointed out 
that Ron as done this before (joking Tom Riddle got his Special 
Service award my killing Moaning Myrtle comes to mind right away).  
Anyways, I noticed that he made another one--that his dad would be 
made Minister of Magic.  What do you think?

*Sirius--ARRGHH! NO!  It's like killing off Harry's remaining family 
almost--that said, do you think it's possible that Harry and Sirius 
are related distantly in the same way Sirius is related to the 
Weasleys and Malfoys.  After all, the Potters were pure-bloods.

*Glad we finally got Cho out of the way--I admit that's on ship I 
really didn't want to sail.  Still this is very realistic, as 
teenagers we get crushes on people who are wrong for us, go out with 
them, and discover they are wrong for us.

*What's going to happen to Draco now that his father has been caught?

*Was a little disappointed we didn't find our more about Lily and 
James and the rest of Potters and Evans--mostly would have liked to 
have known what James and Lily did for a living, what happened to 
Harry's grandparents on both sides, espically since the whole 
Voldemort must kill all the Potters theory doesn't seemed to have 
panned out.   And it still doesn't quite explain why Voldemort didn't 
want to kill Lily except that he did have some inkling of the love 
protection thing but underestimated it.

*Speaking of Evanes--I have a slightly (but not much mind you) higher 
opinion of Petinuia.  Also, another prediction--Dudley is going to 
get arrested in the next novel.

Ok, I've babbled long enough.  Just needed to get some of that out!

Serena