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Harrrryyyy

Jul 23, 2007 10:39

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omg harry potter peanutbuddy July 23 2007, 18:06:34 UTC

hi devon!
can we chat about harry potter?

i'm a sucker for happy endings, but the epilogue was weird. it felt like it was thrown to together at the last minute, but it made me feel so happy to read about everyone grown up and married and happy with children going to hogwarts. awwww! but what happened to everyone else? i had a feeling snape was good, but it was so sad how it ended for him. i wish he could have had a more dignified end.

i was confused with the deathly hallows. was the point of them, exactly? harry never had the 3 items together, although he could have if he didn't drop the stone when he was supposedly killed by Voldemort. was he trying to get them together? or was the point that didn't get them together, even though he could have them? if so, then why did dumbledore leave all the death hallow clues for harry to find, like that symbol in hermione's book? because it kind of sidetracked him from finding the horcruxes.

Re: omg harry potter dropkick_me July 23 2007, 19:16:06 UTC

I was really thrown off by the Deathly Hallows too. He never had all three of them at once but he did kind of use all three. Did Dumbledore want him to have the Resurrection Stone so he could talk to his family and feel better about what was about to happen? Maybe you are right and the point is that he didn't have all three together - he could have been the master of death but he chose not to follow that route? I don't know.

I'm really confused by the transition of the Elder Wand from Draco to Harry. I know that Harry won Draco's wand, but it wasn't the elder wand, it was his hawthorn wand. If you win one wand from a wizard do you win them all?

I, too, enjoy a happy ending but I was left feeling like there were a zillion other things I wanted to know. Where is everybody working? How is George doing without Fred? Etc.

And why didn't Harry and Ginny get put in Azkaban for saddling their kid with a name like Albus Severus?

killerfirefly July 24 2007, 04:15:03 UTC

Oh man. Those were my sentiments exactly ( ... )

dropkick_me July 24 2007, 12:45:49 UTC

I wish I had had you over my shoulder explaining these things while I was reading the book. Score one for Melissa for being much smarter than I am.

peanutbuddy July 24 2007, 13:27:11 UTC

thanks for the wand explanation. i'm still confused about why dumbledore left harry, ron, and hermione all the clues about the hallows, like the fairytale book he left for hermonie. so dumbledore wanted harry to be tempted by them, so he could see if harry could resist the temptation and willingly face his death?

i saw this litte 8-year old girl reading the book on the train. she was almost finished with it. if i can't understand these things i wonder what she thinks about the book. i was very tempted to ask her about her thoughts.

dropkick_me July 24 2007, 14:13:07 UTC

Apparently there are also folks who think that Dumbledore's sister was gang raped by the boys who attacked her. This flew right over my head when I read it - I'm interested to know what you think.

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killerfirefly July 25 2007, 14:04:14 UTC

I think the history about the deathly hallows was important to the story because the elder wand was one of the hallows. Dumbledore, in all his knowledgeableness, probably knew that there was a good possibility that Voldemort would come after the Elder wand, which was in his possession. So Dumbledore left the clues for Harry, Ron and Hermione so that Harry would be prepared to fight Voldemort equipped with the Elder wand when the time came.