The End....
Jul. 21st, 2007 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dksmI'm done...my head hurts.
Meanwhile, apparently while I was reading Harry Potter, Lord Voldemort himself Dick Cheney was president for a couple of hours while the President had some medical tests under anesthesia. And here I thought that chill I felt in the air was from reading about Dementors. Luckily, he did not take the few hours he had to instill himself as ruler of all thing or l don't know...shoot a few people in the face.
Oh, wow. I do not know where to begin. I already want to re-read it because I basically read the entire thing in fear of Harry, Ron, Hermione and/or Ginny dying and that was a bit distracting. Plus the whole reading it at breakneck speed always means you miss something. But I'm glad I didn't read ahead. I think it made it more exciting that way. I'm usually someone who has to know what happens before it happens but this was good. Of course I had to keep myself from peeking (lots of paperclips!). But then I never did do things the normal way with Harry Potter. I am always unspoiled for the books (I'm always spoiled for my other fandoms). And while I read the books the minute they come out and go to see the movies at the midnight showings, I never get anywhere into the fandom. I don't read fanfiction, I don't read message boards, I talk about it or try to figure it all out, I don't do anything but love what I am given. Anyways...
General Reactions to the book:
1. I liked how Harry, Ron, and Hermione did not instantly know all the answers and save the day. I liked how they were still portrayed as young wizards who didn't really know what they were doing. They were forced into the situation and not portrayed as superheroes. And I liked that in the end, they were not famous wizards, merely normal people sending their kids to school.
2. I wish there had been a moment at the end before the epilogue between Harry and Ginny and between Ron and Hermione. But meanwhile, what exactly was Ginny gonna give Harry on his Birthday? That's dirty, Ginny Weasley.
3. Mrs. Weasley called someone a bitch!!!!! She should have said, "Is Molly gonna have to choke a bitch?"
4. I almost threw my book at the beginning when I though Hagrid had died, but poor Hedwig just made me sad. However, Harry being sad made me more sad than most of the people dying made me. But Fred....WHY FRED!!!!!
5. My favorite visual from the book? When Pansy stood up against Harry and the the entire rest of the school stood up against the Slytherins to protect Harry. That or Neville standing up to Voldemort.
6. I got a little misty eyed when Harry visited his parents' grave. But I bawled my eyes out when Harry was walking to the forest accepting that he must die. That will be forever my favorite moment of any Harry Potter book. His bravery was what made him the Chosen One. And the end made me cry cause a) it was the end and b) how sweet is Harry talking to his little boy.
7. Harry being the the seventh Horcrux....duh.
8. Dude, Malfoy named his kid Scorpius...someone's a sci-fi geek.
9. OLIVER FREAING WOOD!!!!
10. The symbolism thing was interesting...of course the similarities to Nazi Germany have always been apart of the story but they were much more pronouced in this book like Nurmengard Prision (i.e. Nurmeburg Trials...look it up). But seriously....a necklace that makes you angry and feels like a burden....I think I read that book/saw that movie ::cough::LOTR::cough:: That and the all-seeing eye.
11. Dude, Harry Potter and I are the same age. Well he's a few months older.
Things I still want to know...
1. Did Harry, Ron, and Hermione have to go back to Hogwarts and do their seventh year of school? Or does killing Lord Voldemort (or helping him kill himself) lead to automatic graduation?
2. What happened to the Malfoy's? I mean I get that Malfoy wasn't all bad and I get that his mom helped Harry and I get that end the end all they wanted was to save Draco but still....they were Death Eaters. Was it the fact that they loved their son that saved them???
3. What did Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny do for a living at the end? Neville was a professor but what were they? Did they become Aurors? And what happened to George? Luna? Everybody?
4. How did Neville get the sword to kill the snake?
5. Who is Victoire?
6. Who's gonna play grownup Harry Potter and Co. in the movies?????
On The Ending:
The End: So Harry never had to kill anyone. I liked that. I liked that he stayed innocent in the whole thing. I mean, sure he knew that Voldemort would die if he blocked the curse...still he didn't cause it to happen. I loved that after Harry died/didn't die, he wasn't afraid anymore at least for himself. I loved how he no longer gave Voldemort any power over him to the point of calling him Tom Riddle.
The End (Part II): Yeah it was cliche and cheesy. But so what...the whole Harry Potter series started out cliche and cheesy. But that at the end...everyone was happy and everyone was normal...to me that was perfect. And that was because Harry Potter finally to his family. The family that he had always wanted. It was his. And he was being the Dad that he had always wished that he had got to have. And that...that made me cry. Because in that moment when he's telling his son not to be afraid about which house he was put into...well you could almost see Harry's Dad doing the same to him if he had lived. In the end it wasn't Harry doing great things that would have made his parents the most proud. It was Harry passing on their legacy of love. And see...now I'm being cheesy.
General Reactions to the book:
1. I liked how Harry, Ron, and Hermione did not instantly know all the answers and save the day. I liked how they were still portrayed as young wizards who didn't really know what they were doing. They were forced into the situation and not portrayed as superheroes. And I liked that in the end, they were not famous wizards, merely normal people sending their kids to school.
2. I wish there had been a moment at the end before the epilogue between Harry and Ginny and between Ron and Hermione. But meanwhile, what exactly was Ginny gonna give Harry on his Birthday? That's dirty, Ginny Weasley.
3. Mrs. Weasley called someone a bitch!!!!! She should have said, "Is Molly gonna have to choke a bitch?"
4. I almost threw my book at the beginning when I though Hagrid had died, but poor Hedwig just made me sad. However, Harry being sad made me more sad than most of the people dying made me. But Fred....WHY FRED!!!!!
5. My favorite visual from the book? When Pansy stood up against Harry and the the entire rest of the school stood up against the Slytherins to protect Harry. That or Neville standing up to Voldemort.
6. I got a little misty eyed when Harry visited his parents' grave. But I bawled my eyes out when Harry was walking to the forest accepting that he must die. That will be forever my favorite moment of any Harry Potter book. His bravery was what made him the Chosen One. And the end made me cry cause a) it was the end and b) how sweet is Harry talking to his little boy.
7. Harry being the the seventh Horcrux....duh.
8. Dude, Malfoy named his kid Scorpius...someone's a sci-fi geek.
9. OLIVER FREAING WOOD!!!!
10. The symbolism thing was interesting...of course the similarities to Nazi Germany have always been apart of the story but they were much more pronouced in this book like Nurmengard Prision (i.e. Nurmeburg Trials...look it up). But seriously....a necklace that makes you angry and feels like a burden....I think I read that book/saw that movie ::cough::LOTR::cough:: That and the all-seeing eye.
11. Dude, Harry Potter and I are the same age. Well he's a few months older.
Things I still want to know...
1. Did Harry, Ron, and Hermione have to go back to Hogwarts and do their seventh year of school? Or does killing Lord Voldemort (or helping him kill himself) lead to automatic graduation?
2. What happened to the Malfoy's? I mean I get that Malfoy wasn't all bad and I get that his mom helped Harry and I get that end the end all they wanted was to save Draco but still....they were Death Eaters. Was it the fact that they loved their son that saved them???
3. What did Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny do for a living at the end? Neville was a professor but what were they? Did they become Aurors? And what happened to George? Luna? Everybody?
4. How did Neville get the sword to kill the snake?
5. Who is Victoire?
6. Who's gonna play grownup Harry Potter and Co. in the movies?????
On The Ending:
The End: So Harry never had to kill anyone. I liked that. I liked that he stayed innocent in the whole thing. I mean, sure he knew that Voldemort would die if he blocked the curse...still he didn't cause it to happen. I loved that after Harry died/didn't die, he wasn't afraid anymore at least for himself. I loved how he no longer gave Voldemort any power over him to the point of calling him Tom Riddle.
The End (Part II): Yeah it was cliche and cheesy. But so what...the whole Harry Potter series started out cliche and cheesy. But that at the end...everyone was happy and everyone was normal...to me that was perfect. And that was because Harry Potter finally to his family. The family that he had always wanted. It was his. And he was being the Dad that he had always wished that he had got to have. And that...that made me cry. Because in that moment when he's telling his son not to be afraid about which house he was put into...well you could almost see Harry's Dad doing the same to him if he had lived. In the end it wasn't Harry doing great things that would have made his parents the most proud. It was Harry passing on their legacy of love. And see...now I'm being cheesy.
Meanwhile, apparently while I was reading Harry Potter,
