Hehe, I finished it yesterday too; I meant to read it over two days but that simply didn't happen.
Yeah, Snape was a big surprise. I'll miss our old version of Snape, but this does explain a lot of things about him in the simplest way possible (I've always been bothered by him encouraging the Slytherin students when he's supposed to disapprove of their ideological beliefs.) I still think he's an interesting character, and the story, at least, just got a whole lot complexer. All I know is that if JKR knows what she's doing, he can't simply become another generic bad guy in book seven.
I liked the ships in the book, but I'm still curious how so many people managed to predict Remus/Tonks ahead of time. Is there subtext that I missed? Or are they just two great characters that everyone decided should be happy together? Eh, anything that makes Lupin happy makes me happy.
I'm just disappointed that we'll (probably) never get to hear what it was that made Dumbledore trust him so much. That's something that I've wanted to hear for a long time. I'll be really diappointed if he turns out to still be the loyal DE because that would mean that there really hasn't been anyone (that I can think of) who joined the DEs and was able to change and leave. As for him encouraging Slytherin, we've only really seen that with students whose parents we know are DEs so I also thought that it was keeping up pretenses
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Yeah, I'm still not sure if we're supposed to take the repentantspy!Snape story that Dumbledore gave us at face value. Is there more to it than that? Will we ever know?
I also believed that Snape was keeping up pretenses with the Slytherin tsudents, but he certainly didn't seem to mind the arrangement, and so this is arguably a simpler explanation.
The Fiction Alley shipping list cracks me up. As does Remus/Sirius, in a fanon kind of way. (Ooh, have you read "lj-user="shoebox_project"? You should!)
The thing that bugs me is that you're not really sure who's on what side since any of them can be under a charm or a curse to be working for the other side and then end up being actually trying to do good. Does that make sense?
I think that almost nothing in the final 100 pages can be fully taken at face value yet until it is resolved in the next book - this book ended far too quickly. Still damn good though.
(trying not to post spoilers since I'm seeing them everywhere)
I agree. I've wondered about how the Unbreakable Vow figured into everything that happened in the end. The real question is did Dumbeldore know about the vow? I would think that he did and so I wonder if he allowed Snape to kill him for some reason.
All I can say is that the next book can't come out soon enough. ;)
yeah, i finished it yesterday too. the whole bit with snape really threw me off gaurd as well, I really wanted him to stay the evil good guy. and it really seemed to me for a little while that Draco was going to turn good, i was sorta disappointed. It was still good, and I can't wait for the next one though.
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Yeah, Snape was a big surprise. I'll miss our old version of Snape, but this does explain a lot of things about him in the simplest way possible (I've always been bothered by him encouraging the Slytherin students when he's supposed to disapprove of their ideological beliefs.) I still think he's an interesting character, and the story, at least, just got a whole lot complexer. All I know is that if JKR knows what she's doing, he can't simply become another generic bad guy in book seven.
I liked the ships in the book, but I'm still curious how so many people managed to predict Remus/Tonks ahead of time. Is there subtext that I missed? Or are they just two great characters that everyone decided should be happy together? Eh, anything that makes Lupin happy makes me happy.
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I also believed that Snape was keeping up pretenses with the Slytherin tsudents, but he certainly didn't seem to mind the arrangement, and so this is arguably a simpler explanation.
The Fiction Alley shipping list cracks me up. As does Remus/Sirius, in a fanon kind of way. (Ooh, have you read "lj-user="shoebox_project"? You should!)
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The thing that bugs me is that you're not really sure who's on what side since any of them can be under a charm or a curse to be working for the other side and then end up being actually trying to do good. Does that make sense?
I think that almost nothing in the final 100 pages can be fully taken at face value yet until it is resolved in the next book - this book ended far too quickly. Still damn good though.
(trying not to post spoilers since I'm seeing them everywhere)
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All I can say is that the next book can't come out soon enough. ;)
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