Deathly Hallows: My Review (SPOILERS!)

[mike_wiltse]

No: HPFGUIDX 172344

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Phyllis" <poppytheelf at ...>
wrote:

> However ... I thought Harry being protected by Lily's sacrifice
> because it lives on in Voldemort's blood would mean that, when
Harry
> finally killed the Horcrux-less Voldemort, Harry would die as
well.
> Dumbledore tells Harry (in "King's Cross"): "He tethered you to
life
> while he lives," so shouldn't that mean that Harry dies when
> Voldemort dies?  Perhaps I was just overly prepared for Harry to
> die :)

mike_witse:
The part of Voldemort in Harry was killed when he tried to kill
Harry.  The reason he had to stand there and not fight back was so
that Voldemort would kill the part that was himself in Harry.

> Harry really wasn't an actual Horcrux, was he?

I think he was, it was just made differntly.

> I loved Molly finishing Bellatrix (especially Molly calling
> Bellatrix a "bitch" – are these really books for children?!?)

The book really seemed (to me) to be written with people Harry's age
in mind, and I don't know of a 17 year old that would be surprised
by the language.


> If Harry wasn't to be a goner, I thought we'd lose someone really
> important (like Ron or Hagrid). But perhaps Rowling thinks killing
> Dumbledore and Snape was enough.  And losing Lupin and Tonks, when
> they had just found happiness with one another and had just had a
> baby, was tough (presumably Bellatrix killed them to "prune" her
> family tree?), although it would have been more powerful if we
could
> have seen the deaths happen.

I thought that myself

> I fully expected to be vindicated in my conviction that Snape has
> always been evil

I never doubted him, it seemed to obvious that he was in love with
Lily.  I didnt understand everything but I didnt really doubt him.

>If the only Horcrux Harry wound up destroying was the
> diary, why couldn't he have more help in tracking down and
> destroying them?

This is just an unsubstantiated guess.  Dumbledore wanted to give
Harry as much time as he could to find them all.  If it became
public knowledge that Voldemort used Horecux, he would have heard
about it sooner and made steps to further hide, or even try to make
more (no matter how dangerous that might be)


> I could have done without the "19 years later" epilogue,
especially

Since there wont be another book, I am really glad it was written.
Its too bad she wont write more, the whole family tree is a bit
confusing but it looks like it turned out ok.

> There are still thousands of remaining unanswered questions - why
> were we able to find out Neville's profession, but not Ron,
Harry's,
> Hermione's or Ginny's?

I think she did that on purpose.

mike_wiltse