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

[dejla.livejournal.com]

I thought it was terrific that Snape did indeed turn out to be a good guy, and it was terribly sad that he drove away the one person who loved him.

I thought his death was logical, and it gave him the chance to tell Harry the truth--and I knew he and Dumbledore had worked out that death thing earlier!

It's possible that Draco may have learned something from the experience--certainly he was heartbroken at (sorry, was it Crabbe?)'s death.

And it made sense that one of the twins died. All the deaths hurt tremendously, but Lupin and Tonks dying together after having the child was--really painful.

I thought it finished the series off quite well and quite logically within the world of fairytale.

And I cried like hell over Hedwig dying. And where was Crookshanks? Did I miss something?

In a week or two, I'll reread it.