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karohemdI finished it just before 5 this morning because I couldn't stop. I thought about stopping because I have really important Stuff™ to do today but I knew that first thing would be to pick up the book again so it didn't really matter. It's good, it's long but it doesn't drag and most of it made sense.
- The deaths: Rowling said that central characters would die so I was sure it would be if not Ron or Hermione, at least Hagrid in a stunt of self-sacrifice to save one of the three friends or at least one of his beloved creatures. Moody was an auror, so was Tonks. I had an inkling Lupin would die but in a more meaningful way, something like being used as a playing card against Harry because he was the last surviving member of the Marauders and Harry sacrificing him for the greater good. OK, some of their toys came in useful now and then and they put up a good fight at the end, but I've always seen Fred and George as comic relief rather than important. Snape had to die.
- I knew that Dumbledore's death was part of the plan (a bit like Obi-Wan dying in A New Hope) but not that it was done because he would have died from the Gaunt ring's curse, anyway
- Why did the Resurrection Stone work differently for Harry than it did for the second brother? The second brother was haunted for the rest of his life by the one he brought back and for Harry, it was just a convenient way of getting through the Dementors.
- Harry's (not) death. So the prophecy was wrong and only the bit of Voldemort in him died. A bit of a let-down. What was the whole in between afterlife bit with Dumbledore about? Just so Rowling could fill in the gaps? This was the bit I didn't understand.
- Voldemort: Why did he not die when the last Horcrux was destroyed? If he split his soul into 7 pieces (the horcruxes), he should have died. So he actually split his soul into 8 (unbeknownst to him) as surely one piece had to remain in his actual body?
- The deaths: Rowling said that central characters would die so I was sure it would be if not Ron or Hermione, at least Hagrid in a stunt of self-sacrifice to save one of the three friends or at least one of his beloved creatures. Moody was an auror, so was Tonks. I had an inkling Lupin would die but in a more meaningful way, something like being used as a playing card against Harry because he was the last surviving member of the Marauders and Harry sacrificing him for the greater good. OK, some of their toys came in useful now and then and they put up a good fight at the end, but I've always seen Fred and George as comic relief rather than important. Snape had to die.
- I knew that Dumbledore's death was part of the plan (a bit like Obi-Wan dying in A New Hope) but not that it was done because he would have died from the Gaunt ring's curse, anyway
- Why did the Resurrection Stone work differently for Harry than it did for the second brother? The second brother was haunted for the rest of his life by the one he brought back and for Harry, it was just a convenient way of getting through the Dementors.
- Harry's (not) death. So the prophecy was wrong and only the bit of Voldemort in him died. A bit of a let-down. What was the whole in between afterlife bit with Dumbledore about? Just so Rowling could fill in the gaps? This was the bit I didn't understand.
- Voldemort: Why did he not die when the last Horcrux was destroyed? If he split his soul into 7 pieces (the horcruxes), he should have died. So he actually split his soul into 8 (unbeknownst to him) as surely one piece had to remain in his actual body?
