Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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Book Notes
Reaching readers within and without the Library’s walls.
I liked it. I really liked the Epilogue, and it was very interesting what was revealed about Snape. I wish parts of it hadn’t been so slow. All that camping, arguing, moving to a new place; camping, arguing, moving to a new place. Tedious. But once they got back to Hogwarts it was non-stop action. I realized that I missed Neville and Ginny and what they were going through that whole time. What were your thoughts?
LOVED it! I actually didn’t find any of it slow or tedious, maybe because I was tearing through it so fast. There were so many good bits it’s impossible to list them all. I had always wanted Snape to be a “good guy,” despite his nastiness, and loved how you never knew what was really going on with him till almost the very end — and it was perfect.
I loved that the blue eye was Aberforth — never saw that coming.
I liked that Dudley actually matured to the point where he recognized what Harry had done for him, AND appreciated it. He showed himself to be smarter than his idiot father, undoubtedly due to genes from his mother’s side. I was surprised Petunia didn’t also soften a bit.
I loved how Kreacher did a complete 180 in his attitude towards Harry, once Harry was able to understand him.
It was also great how Harry saved nasty old Malfoy, and then Narcissa covered for Harry after hearing that Draco was okay, so Harry’s heroism really paid off. Despite how mean all the Malfoys had been, it was kind of nice to see they weren’t ALL bad. Though we kind of already knew that from book 6 when Draco couldn’t kill Dumbledore.
And of course, maybe the best bit of all, Molly Weasley taking out Bellatrix Lestrange! And Voldemort being killed by his own curse! That’s poetic justice.
My only real complaint with Deathly Hallows is that so many of the good guys died. Why Colin Creavey?? And Fred!! And poor little Hedwig, and Dobby, sniffle… Some parts were so sad. When Lupin and Tonks’ baby was orphaned, it seemed like such a parallel to Harry and his parents, yet there didn’t seem to be a reason for such a parallel. Nothing in the epilogue suggested anything special about Teddy, but who knows… Rowling did leave the door open for a second generation series. Though without a Voldemort, what would be the point?
A patron of ours just brought this to my attention. How did Neville get Godric Gryffindor’s sword? The last we saw of it, the Goblin took it and ran off after the whole Gringott’s kafuffle. Then, it is there when Neville needed it to kill Nagini. And it had to be THAT sword, not the fake because Nagini was a Horcrux and only the real sword would be able to destory it. So what happened? Did several of us read too quickly and miss something?