Originally posted by RedSouth+July 27, 2007 10:31 am--> (RedSouth @ July 27, 2007 10:31 am)
Mujer
[email protected] 27, 2007 03:41 am
I loved it up to the epilogue, which was soppy and ridiculous. It was too much information and sooo white bread (marry high school sweetheart have 2-3 kids and live happily ever after?- please...)
I think it was just J.K. Rowling's way of saying "this is fucking over, I will not write any more HP books..."
Personally I was hoping Harry's marriage was torn apart by a particularly nasty divorce, that Hermione had an illegitimate child with Viktor Krum, and that the wizarding world fell into a post-Voldemort economic slump. That's just me. [/b]
Lulz. I agree with ML. Plus, Ginny is such a Mary Sue, it's not even funny anymore.
Random thoughts, re-posted:
It had all the plot twists I expected from a Harry Potter book, although a few things were never cleared up even when deus ex machina Dumbledore came to talk to Harry after the first time he died in the book.
So, here's the way I understand it. There were three variables in play when Harry died, right? 1) Voldemort's body keeping Lily's sacrifice alive and therefore protecting Harry from being killed - IMO that was a stupid thing to do, no one ever explained why using Harry's blood would keep alive the magic (as if it would somehow go away even though Harry's blood was flowing inside him for the entire series...). 2) The Elder Wand being Harry's instead of Voldemort's.
Apparently Harry did not actually die the first time, but we're never told whether it was from the Elder Wand not being able to kill its master
(in this case: why would he go to King's Cross and be able to choose whether he would die, and why did JKR even bother with the Hallows at all except as a plot device to show Harry's "selflessness"? And why, if the wand did not perform the spell successfully, did the spell work to take Voldemort's soul out of Harry?)
, Harry becoming the Master of Death after choosing to go to Voldemort and thus being able to choose his own fate regarding life or death
(seems most plausible to me - he owned the wand, the cloak, the stone, and did not use them for selfish purposes. In this case I'd say Dumbledore was pretty ingenious for sending the stone to Harry only to be used when he was about to die, thus preventing him from using the Hallows for selfish purposes - but how would he intend for Harry to own the wand? He wanted to either destroy its power or have Snape own it, so why would he send Harry the stone if he didn't intend Harry to become Master of the Hallows?)
, or the power of Lily's sacrifice saving him yet again (COP-OUT! ...er, I mean, in that case wouldn't it imply that it was not possible for Harry to ever die by Voldemort's hand? Right, yeah, I do mean that....COP-OUT!).
Plus, the whole final fight with Voldemort and the Elder Wand was dubious. If the spells ricocheted off each other, why was Harry not disarmed instead of Voldemort? And how did the Elder Wand have anything to do with Voldemort's death, assuming the curse simply ricocheted? If the collision and the spell backfired because the Elder Wand could not kill its master, as I said before, what happened in the forest and why did Harry go to King's Cross? It would have been much simpler if the spells had not been written to hit each other and the Elder Wand had turned on Voldemort, not killing Harry either because it found out he was its master or because he was the Master of Death.
The diadem and the cup were great, even though I could see the diadem coming a mile away. I liked all the twists about the Room of Requirement, and Harry figuring out all the things that seemed oh-so-minor when he saw them in the earlier books. Everything except the stuff I outlined above tied together perfectly and I loved the bits about Regulus, the basilisk, and Gringotts.