Where's that Big Reveal in DH?

[Hagrid]

No: HPFGUIDX 180030

> > Katie:
> >   Anyway, back to the topic...I would love to play Professor
> > Sprout. I'm kind of shaped like her! : )  And I always thought
> > she was a really interesting lady who didn't get enough page 
time.
> > Besides, I love the idea of digging in dirt all day for a 
living! 
> 
> Mike:
> If I could peel away 35 years, I could Fred or George justice, 
right 
> down to the red hair. Unfortunately, in my current state, Sluggy 
> would be the best I could hope for. As long as I get to sit around 
> and eat sweets all day. Plus, I would get to duel LV in the end. 
Get 
> knocked on my arse, sure, but that's nothing new.
 
aussie:
Peeves or Hagrid.
Peeves, especially following the twins orders to give Umbridge a 
memerable send off.
Hagrid gets along well with the kids and creatures too. If JKR 
salvaged any other character from the sure fatal experiences Hagrid 
went through and the worse hospitalisation needed was Ted Tonks 
zapping his ribs, I would have felt cheated ... i can forgive her 
giving Hagrid a repreave though.

> Mike:
> ... a critical difference here, ... DH lacked the penultimate 
> or ultimate reveal that made many of the other books such 
> enjoyable reads ...  how JKR managed to ... reveal a major 
> character's true motives all within the timeframe of that book.
> 
> 1) PS/SS - we got Snape turning out to be protecting Harry and 
> Quirrell as the actual 'seeker of the stone.'
> 
> 2) CoS - We don't really get a reversal, unless you count 'Riddle 
> will become Voldemort'. The reveal was Riddle and his Diary were 
> causing the CoS to be opened 
> 
> 3) PoA - Two for the price of one. Scabbers/Pettigrew and Sirius 
> Black both get role reversals. Plus we get the Marauders v Snape 
> reveal, though it's not a reversal.
> 
> 4) GoF - Moody!Crouch Jr. Nuff said! Plus Snape outs himself as a 
> former DE.
> 
> 5) OotP - Again, no real reversal, though we do find out that 
> Trelawney isn't quite the "old fraud" we thought she was. Of 
course, 
> the prophesy was the big reveal.
> 
> 6) HBP - Snape, the Half-Blood Prince. This was both the big 
reveal 
> and the big reversal/cliffhanger when Snape kills DD.
> 
> 7) DH - ? 
> 
> I suppose one could argue in DH the reversals were that Dumbledore 
> wasn't quite saintly, or that Snape ended up being on the good 
side. ...
> 
> But, where was the traitor in their midst? Where was the bad 
> character turning out to be good, or at least not near as bad as 
we 
> thought he/she was? 

aussie:
>From Good to Bad
- Stan Shunpike
- Thicknesse
- Dumbledore (in his youth and getting Harry ready to kill like a 
prize turkey)
- Griphook (in book one, he was one of the only ones to 
say "Please", yet after looking to be such a great help to get to a 
Horcrux, revolted Harry the more time he spent with him)
- Bathilda!Nagini ... no-one saw that happening

>From Bad to Good
- Kretcher (sent Sirius to die in OOTP, but led an attack against DE 
legs ... more for Regulus than for Harry)
- Narcissa (ok, not to good, but helped Harry to protect Draco)
- Percy (ok, so more from a GIT to less of a git)
- Phimeus Nigelus Black, proudly shouting that Slytherins helped 
fight to protect Hogwarts

The character that stayed unchanged in the eyes of readers through 
all the books was Lily. She remained untarnished.
aussie