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Where to begin. So much to say. Not so much about the book itself but about how much all the books have meant to me, and that it is over. It's really over. It's kind of like losing a friend, which hey, maybe that's too dramatic, but to know that there are going to be no more new adventures, it's sad. These books have provided me with insight into a world where anything is possible. I had the book sitting in front of me, and I didn't even wanna start reading it. It took me about thirty minutes to actually open the book and start. I was lucky enough to avoid any spoilers, and I had just finished re-reading Half-Blood Prince, so I still had my theories. I had heard though, that some people finished the book within hours, which personally I don't understand. Why would you want to rush through something like this, I personally wanted to take my time, savor the book and every word written in it, of something that had and still does mean so much to me. I flipped to the back of the book to see how many pages it had, and I acidentally caught a climpse of the Epiloge page, where it says, "Nineteen Years Later." I started freaking out, I didn't wanna know yet, that that chapter was there, not until I reached it by reading. Although when I started reading, espcially the fist chapters, I continued to freakout, it seemed with every chapter. I would get to a part where it seemed like someone was gonna die, like when Hagrid fell off of the Motorcycle, and I would stop reading and say a little prayer to not let them die,(as if the words would re-form on the pages in front of me.) The Death Eater attacks came so suddenly, at the begining of the book, although I should have been expecting for things to happen that way. Harry kind of had a break in book six. His scar didn't hurt pretty much through the whole thing, he was Quidditch Captin, he was even able to have a girlfriend. I figured that the Half-Blood Prince was the calm before the storm. And I was right, to say the least.
So much stuff good and bad happened in Deathly Hallows: Dudley being nice and saying he didn't think Harry was worthless; Kreacher finally coming around and making them soup in Grimauld place and leading the fight of the house elves at the end; finally finding out what most fans knew, that R.A.B. was Regulus Artieus Black; Hermione's Mary Poppin's-like bag; Dumbledore's will, giving Ron the deluminator because he knew he would run-away, and then want to come back; life on the run in the tent; Ron and Harry's fight; Ron coming back and saving Harry and the sword, Ron's worst fear, that Hermione loved Harry instead..."You chose him;" Umbridge and Krum's small cameos, hearing Voldemort recount the killing of Harry's parents in Godric's Hollow; Xenophilius Lovegood, and his necklace with the symbol of the Deathly Hallows; the "Snorkack" horn; Luna being held hostage in the Malfoy's basement with Ollivander; getting Hufflepuff's cup from Gringott's with Griphook and escaping on the dragon; getting and destroying all the Horcruxes; although wasting alot of time to find them; finally seeing Neville(i had begun to wonder whether of not he would even be in the book,) him standing up to fight for the D.A. and him killing the Nagini with the sword, Percy coming to his senses, the Weasly's gaining back a son, but losing one in the same night; Ron and Hermione FINALLY kissing and because he wanted to save the house-elves!; Mrs. Weasley("Not my daughter, you BITCH!) killing Bellatrix...can we say "random"?; Dumbledore's protrait finally coming into play; reliving Snape memories, realizing that all along he was good and that he was trying to protect Harry because he loved Lily, and why it was that Dumbledore trusted him, because he saw the good part of him; Snapes partronus being a doe, that same as Lily's; and Dumbledore knowing, always knowing of the grand-plan, somehow knowing how everything was going to turn out, knew what Harry was thinking before even Harry himself. And lets not forget...Harry being a Horcrux(at least I guessed one thing right!)
And the part that got me most, where I really started to break down, when Harry decided to sacrifice himself to death. He had accepted it as his fate, and the resurrecting stone, when James, Lily, Sirius, and Lupin coming out of it saying how proud they were of him and brave he was, and Harry telling Lupin he didn't mean for him to die. Broke me to tears. More so than any other part of the book.
And of course, Harry and Voldemort's final battle in the Great Hall, surrounded by everyone. By the way is that what is supposed to be represented in the American cover, because if so, I don't see that... Harry calling Voldemort Tom Riddle because Dumbledore did, and Harry coming to the conclusions himself. Harry being the Master of Death himself, because he didn't want to be it, have that power. But Harry catching the Elder's wand and finally after all this time, doing what he was predestined to do, kill Voldemort. All the people that died for him to get there: Mad-Eye, Dobby, Hedwig, Wormtail, Fred, Lupin, Tonks, and Snape. Not to mention George's ear. ;D
But what I didn't get was how did the whole King's Cross thing fit in? I mean I get what Dumbledore was telling Harry but I don't get why at King's Cross with the fetus-like Voldemort under the bench and why was it even happening? Was Harry stuck in between death and life, and how did Dumbledore find him? And what I'm really not happy about is that damn Epiloge. What the eff was that? It was like we were no longer in Harry head, but watching from the sidelines. And the names of Harry and Ginny's childrean. I mean, Albus Severus, James, and Lily, isn't that a bit overkill? Okay I get that Albus Severus was because of two of the greatest Headmaster's at Hogwarts, and Snape being the bravest person he knew. But it you think about it, Snape could have been Harry's dad if James wasn't around. And isn't it a bit contradictary to name your children after, your father, the man he hated, and the woman they both loved? And why did Harry have to end up with Ginny, damnit? Why? I kind of knew it was gonna happen the second Harry said something at the beginning of the book like, "It's not like i'm gonna marry her?" A bit obvious wasn't it? I still don't think that their bond is as strong as Harry and Luna's, and WHAT HAPPENED TO LUNA?? HUH? We never find out? Is she married to Neville or Dean(I thought something was implied when he grabbed her hand when they went to fight.) What happened to the rest of the Weasly's? And who is now the Headmaster of Hogwarts? Although one thing I did happen to love in the Epiloge was that Hermione and Ron ended up together(guess I got two things right! whoo-hoo!) But really Rose and Hugo? Hugo?? Anyways, I didn't very much like the idea of them having a nineteen years later, I almost would have preferred Harry to have died. I mean, I'm glad he didn't, but it just seems like too much of a sugar-coated ending. Like we've been reading for the big finale and this is all we get, them all living happlily ever after...? I dunno. I still don't know how I feel about it. It's very different from the rest of the books, isn't it. I just finished it not to long ago, so I probably need to let it sink in a little bit longer. But it's over now isn't it. Really over.
I'm going to bed, I've been typing for the past two hours. Please excuse any typing/spelling errors.