I Read

[ithildin]

I was right, Nin really, really wanted me to finish so she could talk about it, so I read a bit, did chores, read some more, made dinner, read some more, did laundry. You get the idea [g]

So what did I think?


What I really wanted out of this book, I got: Snape was vindicated. Fewer people died than I thought were going to, though I always said one of the twins was going to be killed before the end, and I was right [sniff] Overall, I thought it was a good ending, and I'm very glad she did an epilogue -- Albus Severus! [another sniff]

And that about covers it. I'll leave the blow by blow reaction posts to other people!



Later: Oh, yeah, feel free to leave spoilery comments. And beware that there may be spoilers in the comments, so on and so forth [g]

Comments

[andsaca369.livejournal.com]

Erastes made a good point in comments to that post, too-- that there's canon evidence that people (Slughorn was her example) regularly take antidotes as a means of building immunity to things. Snape, working as he did with volatile substances in his position as Potions master and volatile people in his role of spy, would probably have taken similar measures. If there was an antidote to Nagini's venom, he'd probably been shooting himself full of it for months.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Yes, that's very true.

[ninjababe.livejournal.com]

I had to go back and re-read the 'death' scene... It was very easy for him to fake his death with Harry...

After all, all he did was drop his hand to the ground and look vacant-eyed. Harry scappered off, he quickly grabbed healing potions he had in his pockets, and ran off to Aruba... :)

Damn it, I will not write a story! I won't!-stamps foot- I refuse!