Aberforth, etc.

[write2stephenie at bellsouth.net]

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I'm reading on digest, so this may have come up between my reading and this post, but I thought that the few non-storytelling lines Aberforth was given were excellent! I *loved* the line to the effect of "brains like that you could be a deatheater."  It captured his very different-from-Dumbledore personality...gruffier and yet clever.

As a mother, I found that the epilogue was ( I've said this elsewhere) a hug and healing balm..a way of binding the wounds inflicted. I appreciated that especially when dealing with my 11yo daughter's intense emotions. She went through a serious mourning process, which surprised me because she hasn't been that sensitive to now. SEEing that that the trio was "okay" was very Important to her. 

If not for my children, I might have liked the book to end before the epilogue, even with all the questions left unanswered. Still, I'm satisfied. A marvelous line from "The Woman Warrior" is when she writes that "her mind was enlarged to make room for paradoxes."  I believe that is exactly what JKR wanted to do, and to my enlarged mind she succeeded brilliantly. 

It has been a dark and brilliant journey.  


-Stephanie