Harry Potter and the 3:30am bedtime
I stayed up very late to finish the book last night and now I am feeling it because I'm an old old lady. But here it is: this was the most brilliant awesome book ever.
So nobody died who I thought was going to. I was sure Ron would sacrifice himself for Hermione or vice versa. But I guess its okay that most of them lived through the fight. But the Order was pretty much done, wasn't it? Fred, Lupin, Tonks, Mad-Eye....all dead. Dobby probably made me the most sad though. Sweet old elf, he died helping out his revered Harry Potter, who had not appreciated Dobby's adoration until that very point.
As for Snape being good all along...totally called it. I refer you to my review two years ago of HBP. Dumbledore knew love was stronger than anything else and Voldemort could never understand Snape's love for Lily as anything more than a need to bone her. Poor Snape.
Poor Draco as well. He has obviously realized his parents are total assholes and that Harry was a person he really should have been nicer to since he is the CHOSEN ONE. DARGH DRACO.
Goblins are jerks.
When Hermione kissed Ron all Harry did was be all like, "um we're fighting Voldemort right now, can this wait?" haha.
Although the beginning after the Death Eaters fight was really just them hiding in a tent and fighting each other.
The Deathly Hallows/Horcrux stuff=way too complicated for me to discuss in this post-Potter coma, but that's a little lame that Harry was the seventh Horcrux. I guess he's something from Griffyndor.
And why aren't Neville and Luna married? WHY?
Epilogue=almost cried. This is it. Well until they make the movies and Jason makes a good point, this one has to be like 4 hours long. It was so well-written I couldn't think of anything to cut. I hate to be the screenwriter.
So I finished and it took approx. 15 hours of total reading time, and seeing as I bought it for about 20 bucks, paying a little over a buck an hour was well worth the best novel in the series and maybe one of the best I've ever read.
Sigh, back to normal life...
So nobody died who I thought was going to. I was sure Ron would sacrifice himself for Hermione or vice versa. But I guess its okay that most of them lived through the fight. But the Order was pretty much done, wasn't it? Fred, Lupin, Tonks, Mad-Eye....all dead. Dobby probably made me the most sad though. Sweet old elf, he died helping out his revered Harry Potter, who had not appreciated Dobby's adoration until that very point.
As for Snape being good all along...totally called it. I refer you to my review two years ago of HBP. Dumbledore knew love was stronger than anything else and Voldemort could never understand Snape's love for Lily as anything more than a need to bone her. Poor Snape.
Poor Draco as well. He has obviously realized his parents are total assholes and that Harry was a person he really should have been nicer to since he is the CHOSEN ONE. DARGH DRACO.
Goblins are jerks.
When Hermione kissed Ron all Harry did was be all like, "um we're fighting Voldemort right now, can this wait?" haha.
Although the beginning after the Death Eaters fight was really just them hiding in a tent and fighting each other.
The Deathly Hallows/Horcrux stuff=way too complicated for me to discuss in this post-Potter coma, but that's a little lame that Harry was the seventh Horcrux. I guess he's something from Griffyndor.
And why aren't Neville and Luna married? WHY?
Epilogue=almost cried. This is it. Well until they make the movies and Jason makes a good point, this one has to be like 4 hours long. It was so well-written I couldn't think of anything to cut. I hate to be the screenwriter.
So I finished and it took approx. 15 hours of total reading time, and seeing as I bought it for about 20 bucks, paying a little over a buck an hour was well worth the best novel in the series and maybe one of the best I've ever read.
Sigh, back to normal life...