[HPforGrownups] OOP : My thoughts (SPOILERS)

[Nguyen, Marc]

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When I got to B&N and saw that the whole parking lot was full, I knew I was
in trouble. In a small town in central WI, we had 1000 people waiting for
the book. Did any one else not like B&N's color flyer scheme for handing out
the books? It would have been ok if you knew that was how they were going to
handle it, but never-the-less, I was able to "cheat" and obtain a early
colored flyer from a very nice lady who had 2. I only had to wait 1 hour, so
I was able to start my reading at 1:30AM, and finished by 1:30pm.

I loved most people's reviews and I would be repeating most of the earlier
posts, so I will just make some comments if anyone cares to read.

The Umbridge character was written very well and yes, she will probably be
THE most hated character, maybe only Percy will top her if he does not
reform.

It was wonderful to see Neville and Ginny evolve, I do wonder if the trio
will be no more now and it'll be the DA group instead, although will Harry
want to share his most inner thoughts and pains with more people? 

Some people wrote that Lupin didn't show enough emotion over Sirius. I
thought so too until I reread that part of the book. There were 2 references
to him taking Sirius's death hard. It was right when he had to do the
counter-curse for Neville. I also think it is not in Lupin's personlity to
show too much emotion. I just hope he can step up to the plate and be there
for Harry in the future.

Harry used an unforgivable, wow! but I was wondering, even though he didn't
do it correctly, how did he know how to do it? It usually takes him a lot of
pratice to get a spell right. 

Speaking of curses, I find it hard to beleive that most of the DEs did not
use the AK curse on the kids. Some were, but even the ones that did use it,
it was not the main curse that they used, I wonder why? too much strength to
cast it maybe? Even Tom didn't always use it against Dumbledore. I liked it
that dumbledore called him Tom, I think that DA group should use that name
in reference to Voldemort now.

Bella Lestrange...wow! is she more powerful then L. Malfoy? Even Sirius
could not take her, although I think he was trying to "milk" the battle and
was too cocky. 

I liked the prophecy, now we know why Dumbledore doesn't just go and kill
Tom, he can't do it!

Marc