First Comments on HP:DH

[Jenni Merrifield]

No: HPFGUIDX 172233

God, I'm so glad the list is back up! The two and a half day wait since I
finished the book has been killing me - I want to hear what everyone else
has to say!  My initial comments are below:

 

1.	SNAPE:

a.	YES! I *always* knew he was DDM!
b.	Woah! All those people who said Snape loved Lily were actually
RIGHT!?!  Who'd a thunk it!? ;-)

 

2.	HARRY:

a.	YES! I knew Harry wasn't going to die (Although Jo sure had me going
up until the "Kings Cross" chapter... :-P)
b.	I was on the fence about "Harry as a Horcrux" - it was honestly one
of the first thoughts I had about it after reading HBP but then I convinced
myself that, if he was, he'd have to die, so as he wasn't going to die...
Should have stuck with my initial gut instinct. :-P  

 

3.	SADDEST MOMENTS:

a.	Hedwig's death.  It's always the innocent ones first.
b.	Dobby's death.  I cried for pages. And the way they all dressed him during the funeral was so sweet.
c.	Fred's death.  It hit me like a punch in the gut. It was also
bittersweet for me: I've alwyas held that one of the twins was going to die but none of my friends agreed with me (oh, she'd never kill just ONE of them!). So I was right, but... WHHAAAAAHH! Fred is dead!!!!!! <snf>

 

 

4.	FAVOURITE/MOST MEMORABLE SCENES:

a.	Dudley telling Harry's he didn't think he was a waste of space and shaking his hand.
b.	Ginny surprising Harry on his birthday with the snog of his
lifetime.
c.	Hermione giving Ron what for after he rejoined them in the Forest of Dean
d.	Seeing the war memorial at Godric's Hollow turn into a monument to Harry's family
e.	Harry crying at his parent's grave
f.	Nagini erupting out of Bathilda's neck
g.	Dobby coming to the rescue at the Malfoy Mansion.
h.	Harry doing in the DE threatening McGonnagal by a Cruciatus Curse and then saying that Bellatrix was right "You really have to mean it."
i.	Percy Weasley returning to the fold at last.
j.	Harry, Ron and Hermione turning around and saving Draco and Goyle.  (As Ron said, I'd feel sorry for Crabbe, except that he started the fire in the first place)
k.	Sybil's flying crystal balls of death.  YAY for taking out Greyback! (Although, I would have loved to hear Hermione say something along the lines that they were finally being put to a good use.)
l.	Narcissa betraying Voldemort by saying Harry was dead. (Another shining example of how Voldmort's dismissal of the power of love ultimately led him to his doom)
m.	Every bit of "The Prince's Tale"
n.	Harry limply pretending to be dead until just the right moment
o.	Neville providing that perfect moment by using Godric Gryffindor's sword to slice off Nagini's head! (YES! I'd also love to see Griphook's face when he realizes that the sword has disappeared again)
p.	Molly Weasley totally "pwning" Bellatrix. (YES, YES!)
q.	Harry calling Voldemort "Tom Riddle" to his face.           
r.	Voldemort dying from a rebounded Avada Kedavra. You'd think he would have learned by now... ;-)

 

5.	DISAPPOINTMENTS:

a.	The fact that Umbridge was the ministry worker who took the locket from Mundungus felt a little bit too tidy and contrived.
b.	Ron speaking Parsletongue and opening the Chamber of Secrets
c.	Ron and Hermione going to the Chamber of Secrets off screen. Harry totally should have made the connection to Moaning Myrtle's place of residence when he was told they said something about a bathroom!
d.	Not actually seeing Moaning Myrtle
e.	Not one Slytherin student stayed behind to fight or even returned during the second wave with the Hogsmead villagers.  I really expected to see at least a few who knew that fighting Voldemort was the right thing to do and were willing to choose the right way not the easy way.
f.	Tonks and Lupin deaths being off stage

 

6.	ISSUES LEFT UNANSWERED:

a.	We still don't know what happened during the "missing" 24 hours! 
b.	We never got to see behind the locked door at the MoM
c.	We never got to revisit the veil room at the MoM
d.	Wasn't someone supposed to learn to cast magic "late in life?"
e.	Weren't we supposed to learn about the spouses of some of the
Hogwarts' Professors?

 

7.	OVERALL: Jo's BEST book.  No contest.

 
:-j(enni)

 
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