Harry Potter, Deathly Hallows (spoilers allowed)

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You know, another thing occured to me just now. Remember reading some time ago that there was supposed to be something special about Crookshanks -- he wasn't 'just a cat.' Not that he was an animagus or anything, but that he was a species that was special. But... nothing ever came of it.
Or did I miss something?

Edit:
Huh. This from wikipedia. Nevermind.

 

Re: Harry Potter, Deathly Hollows (spoilers allowed)

I keep remembering more that we didn't find out.
We didn't find out what Harry's parents did.
We didn't really learn about Petunia (the more than meets the eye stuff) other than she wished she could go to Hogwarts.
We never saw a person who had never before displayed magic but did so under extreme conditions.
We didn't find out what Dudley saw when the dementors attacked him.
We didn't learn what spell Dumbledore had cast at Voldemort during their battle in Order.
She told a great story and tied up almost all of the loose ends. In the grand scheme of things, this stuff doesn't really matter, but they are all things she has said in interviews we would learn.
I'll probably remember more later.

 

Re: Harry Potter, Deathly Hollows (spoilers allowed)

I have to admit I was kind of underwhelmed. No major characters died (Tonks and Lupin? They're like soon-to-be-retired partners of renegade cops) and the ending was kind of confusing.

It was entertaining enough, but I remember finishing the sixth book and I couldn't wait for the seventh. Turns out to have been a bit of a letdown.

 

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To think I was made fun of as an 11-year-old for reading the Hardy Boys.

 

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Huh? How so? Rowling damned near spelled everything out while Harry and Riddle circled each other.

 

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I think, and very well could be wrong, that when Voldy "killed" harry the first time, all he did was kill the horcrux part of him. Which brings up the point of Rowling denying that harry was a horcrux leading up to the release of the book. oh well, misdirection and all.

overall i liked it. Agree that the non-verbal magic never came into play. Liked how Snape was really good, although how he died was rather weak with Voldy only killing for the wand and not because he found out he was good.

 

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I wish she hadn't denied that people could be horcruxes or that they could be made on accident. She should have just had the policy that she wouldn't answer any questions about what would happen.
Also, I still feel like it's a better story if Harry actually does die there. Sacrifice was a big theme of the series and it took him making the ultimate sacrifice for Voldemort to be defeated. Why couldn't it have actually BEEN that sacrifice instead of just the willingness to do it?

 

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I'm sure that was the only reason ...

 

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Yeah, I meant before that....they did clear up everything in the scene you're talking about, but if you need such a talky exposition/explanation during a climactic duel, you've got problems.

 

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The things the book lacked were minimal. I thought it was damn near perfect.

 

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I thought it was really good, but it didn't deliver on some of the things she promised in interviews.
And personally I found the epilogue lame. She wrote that when she did the first book, right? How come she never went back and re-wrote it in the ensuing 17(?) years to make it better -- and answer the questions she knew she is going to get asked over and over again.

 

Re: Harry Potter, Deathly Hollows (spoilers allowed)

A lot of those promises were made in interviews done as many as seven years ago -- it's reasonable to assume that a plot point or two (or ten) would be dropped in the ensuing years.