[HPforGrownups] What I liked about DH (a positive post)

[Christine Maupin]

No: HPFGUIDX 173717

>krista7 <erikog at one.net>  wrote: 
>In light of recent posts asking for positive 
>commentary on the book...

Thank you for your positive post!!!  I loved the book.  My husband (who is not a fan) kindly made himself absent last weekend and I ended up reading it in one all-day marathon on the 21st.  Since then, I've read it a second time and am about halfway through the audio book.  (Hearing Jim Dale read Harry's story is a delight.)

DH made me laugh out loud at times (got to love Keacher saying, Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck) and it made me cry (Dobby's death and burial, and all of chapter 34, The Forest Again).  I was touched by simple poignant acts (Harry burying Mad Eye's eye by a tree that was as much the "consummate survivor" as the man himself).  I was utterly surprised by some things and not by others.  (How many of us thought the Deathly Hallows of the title was a reference to the Horcruxes?  In hindsight, we should not be surprised to be proven wrong -- all of the books' titles refer to something or someone revealed by the book itself, not a book before it.  We fell victim to our own cleverness and I loved it.)  I was appalled by intolerance, persecution, and what amounted to "ethnic cleansing."  Some of what I thought would happen did happen and some didn't and some happened in ways I would never have guessed -- and that's OK.  I don't want to read a book that I can totally
 predict.  I worried about characters I love as they struggled and grew and faced their enemies and stood up for what's right, and I mourned their sorrows and celebrated their victories.  And, as in life, some things are left unsaid and some questions are unanswered.  I'm OK with that too.  I consider any book that can make me experience and feel so much a good book.

Christy