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25 July 2007

~100% Completely Spoiler-free Deathly Hallows Thread~ Thoroughly enjoyable. A fitting end to the series. Satisfying. Well thought out. Well executed.

Old Moneybags saved the best book for last.[More:]
Fooled ya! You can't really read more. There isn't anything else.

Except this. And this.

[damn]

OK, so there kind of is more. But no spoilers. We can have another thread for them'ns.

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In my own defense, your honour, I don't really like these books as much as most people do [the fan slash is particularly disturbing], I just wanted to finish it before my 10-yr-old daughter got to any of the 'troubling bits' which we all knew would be there [esp after that last book in which Old Crafty Took One In The Gizzard And Did A Header Off The Tower]. Now, that cannot count as a spoiler because it was in the LAST BOOK. Don't holler at me.
posted by chuckdarwin 25 July | 07:15
Agreed. I really enjoyed the ending. It was not at all what I expected. The development of the character of Dumbledore was terrific.

As much as I enjoyed it (finished it last night), as I think it over, I have some reservations about the method or the presence or the absence of redemptions.
posted by ibmcginty 25 July | 08:54
I have some reservations about the method or the presence or the absence of redemptions.


That's a fair comment.
posted by chuckdarwin 25 July | 08:59
Not what I expected either; these last four were SCARY!. I'd say the average kid isn't ready for them until 10---she's said all along that she didn't intend them to be children's fiction.
posted by brujita 25 July | 09:13
There are some very 'adult' moments. Heroism isn't pretty.
posted by chuckdarwin 25 July | 09:24
I enjoyed it. There were some things I would have liked to have gone differently, and I'm not sold on the epilogue, but on the whole, yep, enjoyed it. as much as you can enjoy crying for an hour non-stop and trying to read at 3.30am through the tears. heh.
posted by gaspode 25 July | 09:26
Can't tell whether you're agreeing or making fun, chuckdarwin-- mockery would be a sensible enough reaction to my rather nonsensical sentence. I was trying to be super spoiler-averse.
posted by ibmcginty 25 July | 10:03
I can't even read this thread. No spoilers (thanks) but too many intimations of the direction of the plot. Much better to engage in the discussion when I've done the reading. Back into blinderhood!
posted by Miko 25 July | 10:49
mockery would be a sensible enough reaction to my rather nonsensical sentence.


I was trying to mock you in a way that wouldn't spoil anything.
posted by chuckdarwin 25 July | 10:55
Just finished last night, too. Loved it and wouldn't mind discussing some finer [read: spoiler] points. Yep, the development of the character of Dumbledore was much appreciated. I love good characterization, and so I'm happy to see he was given some added depth.

Now I just need to start a Harry Potter convention in my area....
posted by malaprohibita 25 July | 11:48
Heroism isn't pretty.


Hear hear.
posted by malaprohibita 25 July | 11:49
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