Wow, i have just finished reading and i must admit, a truly excellent book. In my humble opinion each book was better than the predecessor but, this was a truly fantastic ending and was the best in the series by far (not saying that even the worst of the books was bad though.)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows SPOILERS (you have been warned)
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I keep reading that as "I've got a boob job"...brendy said:
Anyhow, the book was good.
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brendy said:
Just because you dont have the intellectual or emotional intelligence to read a book, doesn't mean the rest of us don't...
(answer is yes)
The book was fantastic, i'm still in shock that the saga is over, loved the ear jokes, mortified at fred's death.
Already prediceted who R.A.B. was, figured that harry was a hrcrux, but i didn't expect him to not die. Once again JKR has superceeded herself in another great read, for that, i thank her.
Last point, in the 5th film, the room of requirement was blasted open.. tut tut, i wonder how they are goin to encorporate it into the 7th film now...
Hey Brendy, you're the perfect stereotype of a 14 year old forum-goer. You realize that ? Allusions to lack of sex, sisters' underpants, sad lives because of something so trivial as a book while you have computer parts in your sig, etc etc
Just makes me laugh, really. I don't even like Potter either but I don't care enough to go on threads like this and act like an asshat.
Just makes me laugh, really. I don't even like Potter either but I don't care enough to go on threads like this and act like an asshat.
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yep just finished the book and it was a great read. favourites was Kreatchers Tale and how Dumbledore enrolled Snape into helping him and the Elder Wand twist and how it was all planned from the very beginning
vintage-x said:
The power of the Elder wand can only be passed on by defeating the current owner of the Elder wand.
Dumbledore was the owner of the Elder wand and while Dumbledore may have been killed by Severus Snape he was however, not defeated by Severus Snape. Dumbledore was already dying (few months left to live at the time he was killed) due to the curse on the Marvolo's ring and asked Snape to kill him so he was not defeated by him.
When Dumbledore landed at the Astronomy Tower (in the Half Blood Prince) he heard someone about to blast the tower door open. Dumbledore had a split second to act and in that second he froze Harry in order to protect him. This gave Draco Malfoy a severe advantage allowing him to disarm Albus Dumbledore. This act of disarming Dumbledore in essence beat him, and so the power to use the Elder wand was infact transfered to Draco as he had beaten the owner of the wand in a duel. Not Snape who had killed Dumbledore after this and so Voldermort believed gained the power of the wand.
If the owner of the wand dies without being defeated then the true power of the wand will cease to exist, however, this would have made the wand useless.This is why Dumbledore wanted the wand to go to Voldermort but, not to be owned by him. For by being owned by Harry it protected him against any spell Voldermort might cast using it against Harry.
edit: doh too late, oh well it was a long explanation
I finished the book today.
I started the books when I was 12 I think and have really grown up with them, I finished a major part of my childhood today, torn by wanting to know what happens and not wanting to admit there wont be anymore new ones. I don't want to brag or anythin but I was a massive fan way vefore any of it took off, I remember people not even havin heard of it when I started reading it in class (I couldn't put the 3rd one down and still maintain it to be the best). I, like so many people obviously share yet think theirs differ, feel so attached to this world where anythings possible, it isnt like LOTR or StarWars, they're so far away and alien from anythin we know, HP is much more likely to be fantasized about being real.
I don't care how sad it is but I'm worryin about not bein able to let go, I demand more from you Rowling, you slacker!
I thought it was a good ending, it was very obvious from a fair distance in the book that he wasn;t goin to die, it spent well too much time buildin it up for his death to just go oh he's dead and leave it at that. The epilogue was a nice touch but I thought very rushed, seems like she finished the story and then added in the catharsis at the last minute.
As for people dissing them, its much sadder and pathetic purposely entering into a conversation to insult the people involved, it isn't like someone started askin your opinion on the books.
I started the books when I was 12 I think and have really grown up with them, I finished a major part of my childhood today, torn by wanting to know what happens and not wanting to admit there wont be anymore new ones. I don't want to brag or anythin but I was a massive fan way vefore any of it took off, I remember people not even havin heard of it when I started reading it in class (I couldn't put the 3rd one down and still maintain it to be the best). I, like so many people obviously share yet think theirs differ, feel so attached to this world where anythings possible, it isnt like LOTR or StarWars, they're so far away and alien from anythin we know, HP is much more likely to be fantasized about being real.
I don't care how sad it is but I'm worryin about not bein able to let go, I demand more from you Rowling, you slacker!
I thought it was a good ending, it was very obvious from a fair distance in the book that he wasn;t goin to die, it spent well too much time buildin it up for his death to just go oh he's dead and leave it at that. The epilogue was a nice touch but I thought very rushed, seems like she finished the story and then added in the catharsis at the last minute.
As for people dissing them, its much sadder and pathetic purposely entering into a conversation to insult the people involved, it isn't like someone started askin your opinion on the books.
M0T said:
I missed this at first too, on page 587 about halfway down it says about Neville pulling something silvery and long from the sorting hat.
The sorting hat was owned by Godric Griffindor just like the sword. I assume because the hat is at least semi intelligent it summoned the sword inside it and allowed Neville to pull it from it. Much like how harry did in the chamber of secrets (as i dont believe the sword was hidden within the hat then either but it merely summoned it)
bes etc, seems like my baiting certainly worked
As for not reading myself, I never said I did not read, I choose to read editorials and factual based books. Now, to close this whole charade, those of you that chose to queue and read the book asap, you have my respect but you are still a little strange.
As for the 14 year old posts?? catch yourselves on.
As for not reading myself, I never said I did not read, I choose to read editorials and factual based books. Now, to close this whole charade, those of you that chose to queue and read the book asap, you have my respect but you are still a little strange.
As for the 14 year old posts?? catch yourselves on.
anksta said:
Wasn't a loophole really, Harry pulled the same trick in book two when he fought the Basilisk and Neville being another 'true Griffindor' was able to do the same. It was explained somewhere that the sorting hat had a bit of each of the founders put into it which one can only assume gave it powers of it's own.
well i enjoyed it, feels quite weird not to have a cliff hanger at the end though!
battle at hogwarts was ace as was the beginning with the real high pressure stuff.
the epilogue was cool and means any other books she might decide to do in the 'hp universe' have certain rules set for them already.
i could have done with a couple more pages at the end just as the aftermath of voldemorts defeat and how it affects the wizarding world. would have been good to have a harry and ginny getting back together properly but that's only because i'm a sap who wanted everything in a nice neat bow.
battle at hogwarts was ace as was the beginning with the real high pressure stuff.
the epilogue was cool and means any other books she might decide to do in the 'hp universe' have certain rules set for them already.
i could have done with a couple more pages at the end just as the aftermath of voldemorts defeat and how it affects the wizarding world. would have been good to have a harry and ginny getting back together properly but that's only because i'm a sap who wanted everything in a nice neat bow.
Just finished it about 30 minutes ago and a fantastic read it was.
Started off very nicely, but got a bit dull when it was just Harry and co camping but soon peaked up again, and an excellent ending, very epic imo(look forward to how that turns out film wise) wrapped up the loose threads nicely. Nice touch with the epilogue but i would have liked to have known a bit more about what happened to some of the characters.
Great end to a fantastic series of books, as some above have said i can see this being a classic series of books for years to come.
Started off very nicely, but got a bit dull when it was just Harry and co camping but soon peaked up again, and an excellent ending, very epic imo(look forward to how that turns out film wise) wrapped up the loose threads nicely. Nice touch with the epilogue but i would have liked to have known a bit more about what happened to some of the characters.
Great end to a fantastic series of books, as some above have said i can see this being a classic series of books for years to come.
Yeah, it's a great ending spoilt by a really really weak epilogue. I'd loved to have heard what happened with the ministry and how they tried to ensure nothing like it ever happened again, and all the people who were imprisoned etc, going free. A couple of paragraphs of them chatting about their kids going to Hogwarts a few years later was a right let-down.Demoniser said:
