Pötterdämmerung

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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...

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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 wonder if that was her original plan? She did say that two characters died that were originally supposed to live, and having them split up after the War (or be miserable together) would be just as good a reason for Teddy to be over at the Potter house every chance he could get as any.