Deathly Hallows Book Discussion **LoTs Of Spoilers**

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Question:
Harry had Lily's eyes, right? Then is this why Snape said 'Look...at...me." before he died? Oooh how cool. OR he wanted Harry...

Man, now I'm even more sad. I really thought he was going to project something into Harry's mind until he bled his memories all over the place. So you're probably right...twas Harry's eyes he wanted to see. GAH . GAH!

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

Man, now I'm even more sad. I really thought he was going to project something into Harry's mind until he bled his memories all over the place. So you're probably right...twas Harry's eyes he wanted to see. GAH . GAH!

Well, one can hope that when Snape died, he was able to see Lily again, and here's hoping James was not a schmuck about it. I was so happy to confirm that Snape was on the side of good. Snape was/is my favorite character. This also may be colored by the splendid Alan Rickman (sigh) and I am looking forward to seeing more of him in the final two films.

I finished the book last night. I loved the starkness of the begining, the trio on the run and wept when Ron left. I kept thinking oh no, he's going to be captured by Voldemort. When he came back, I practically hugged the book. I wept.

I loved all the backstory and the plugging of many holes and was shocked by all the Dubledore revelations/suspicions and then was so pleased at his eternal wisdom in realizing he did not trust himself to be Minister of Magic. It rounded him out so much more, not just a merlin-like, gandalf-like fuzzy wizard, a great wizard with flaws like everyone else.

The Prince's Tale chapter really got me.

Molly Weasley kicked death eater butt! Neville was awesome and ended up a Professor, how cool is that?

In no particular order:
Here Lies Dobby - A Free Elf (sob)
Snape (sob)
Hedwig (sob) and
Fred (sob sob sob)

That was so hard to take, Fred getting it. The sudden appearence of Percy did nothing to asuage the mourning for Fred. Percy was a twit.

The book moved along at record pace for 700+ pages and I think that I would have left the epilogue off. Some things are better left to the imagination. But, seeing what happened so many years later to the characters in Gone With the Wind, perhaps Rowling was wise to put something on paper to avoid another author regurgitating her characters.

I loved this book, while like everyone else I would have liked a little more explanation of what happened, I think we'll get our wish in the end. I saw a news report with Rowling last night in which there was an indication of a sort of encyclopedia of Potter in which all the back story, etc. not used in the books would be brought out.

Bravo to Rowling for her achievement, there was some good storytelling in there and I will enjoy these books for years to come.