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Pötterdämmerung
In a word, Squee!
What a wild ride! Starting with the first death, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows just rolled on like a steam engine.
JKR pulled out all the stops, killing far more people than I thought she would. Oddly enough, none of the death shocked me that much except Hedwig's -- every other character seemed like a likely target. I was rather surprised that all of the Trio survived, but asking JKR to kill *all* of her darlings would have been a bit much.
The plot was fairly tight, and all of the Chekov's guns were taken off the wall and used -- always a plus.
I'm not sure how I feel about Snape's devotion to Lily. Unrequited love is kind of depressing, and long-term unrequited love feels like emotional stuntedness in the lover. However, that's why JKR would never say what his Patronus was -- way too much detail in that.
I loved that Remus and Tonks were having a difficult marriage -- I always felt it was a bad idea for the two of them to be together and frankly if they had both survived, I can imagine them divorcing in a few years.
I foresee some young Dumbledore/Grindelwald slash now.
Also, Neville is SQUEE! As is Luna. And Neville's grandmother probably is a lot like A J Hall wrote her -- I think it took some very brave or foolish DEs to go after her.
More of a thinky post later...
What a wild ride! Starting with the first death, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows just rolled on like a steam engine.
JKR pulled out all the stops, killing far more people than I thought she would. Oddly enough, none of the death shocked me that much except Hedwig's -- every other character seemed like a likely target. I was rather surprised that all of the Trio survived, but asking JKR to kill *all* of her darlings would have been a bit much.
The plot was fairly tight, and all of the Chekov's guns were taken off the wall and used -- always a plus.
I'm not sure how I feel about Snape's devotion to Lily. Unrequited love is kind of depressing, and long-term unrequited love feels like emotional stuntedness in the lover. However, that's why JKR would never say what his Patronus was -- way too much detail in that.
I loved that Remus and Tonks were having a difficult marriage -- I always felt it was a bad idea for the two of them to be together and frankly if they had both survived, I can imagine them divorcing in a few years.
I foresee some young Dumbledore/Grindelwald slash now.
Also, Neville is SQUEE! As is Luna. And Neville's grandmother probably is a lot like A J Hall wrote her -- I think it took some very brave or foolish DEs to go after her.
More of a thinky post later...
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And if anyone should have stayed home with baby Teddy, it's Lupin. Tonks was the trained Auror. But JKR writing a stay-at-home dad is going to happen when they start handing out ice skates in hell.
There's going to be a lot of fic set between the last chapter and the epilogue. Hopefully some of it will be written by people with clues.