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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 12:23 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 1:13 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 2:14 pm
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 12:24 am
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 8:53 pm
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 4:04 am
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:09 pm
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I put Deathly Hallows on the shelf next to the other books, and noticed how much thinner it was as compared to GoF, OotP and HBP. Methinks Rowling has finally rediscovered the wonders of editing. Joy! It's a pity she completely forgot such a thing existed for books four through six. It's because of more stringent editing [I believe] that this book gelled together a lot better than any of the other books outside of Prisoner of Azkaban.
I thought the epilogue was rather redundant, myself - and far too neat and perfect to be real. I can understand wanting a happy ending, but this was just too unreal. It's like - after putting Harry through hell and killing him a couple of times, Rowling relents and gives him his happy ending with a wife and house with a white picket fence [Privet Drive?!] and 2.1 kids [okay, more than that]. It doesn't make sense to me that life can be so nicely and neatly tied up like that.
I have to say, Remus annoyed me in this book. Which annoyed me in turn because I liked Remus before this book. But right from the beginning in Deathly Hallows, when Remus all but told Harry he was an idiot for wanting to believe in his friends - well, Remus might be jaded and disillusioned, but I think it's a very sad man who can't trust anyone. I wanted to think that Remus was better than that. I did go "HA!" when Harry defeated Voldemort with Expelliarmus, though. =P
Rowling did a good job of tying up most of the loose ends from the other books. I didn't foresee the Invisibility Cloak being so very important, I have to say, and I loved the bit where Xenophilius was going "A cloak that will never wear out! Ever seen one like that, eh? Didn't think so!" and the trio are sitting there thinking, "Er, yes... we have it here now..." Sheer brilliance.
And Ron. Ron. How I love thee, Ron. heart He had some brilliant one-liners in this book, and was so quintessentially Ron it's amazing. A lot of the other characters have changed dramatically, but Ron - well, he's grown up some, but other than that he's still the same old Weasley. It was lovely seeing him overcome his own little demons during that incident with the Horcrux. Makes me want to slap all the Ron-bashing fanfic authors out there. *is thoroughly sick of that*
Ginny still annoyed me though. No matter how much I try, I just can't like her. She was doomed from the third book, really. I mean, the reason for the second book was Ginny, right? She was the one who was possessed and had to be rescued by Harry et. al? After that, I was expecting she'd become a part of the group. She suffered a traumatic experience, and Harry saved her, and after that... neither of them so much as speaks to each other? And then suddenly she reappears in OotP and she's Beautiful and Lively and Vivacious and Witty and Charming and Able To Give The Twins A Run For Their Money... a total Mary Sue, in other words.
It is a sad day when a canon character is a Mary Sue.
And that is why I don't like Ginny, and [probably mostly] why the picture-perfect epilogue so annoys me. Bah.
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 6:18 am
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:33 pm
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 4:33 pm
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:13 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 1:02 pm
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 8:49 am
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