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[Archangel]

I just finished the book a little over 20 minutes ago and if you're into the series you won't be disappointed!

I was worried about the final book but she pulled it off a lot better than I thought possible. The last chapter "19 years later" I thought was pretty cheesy, but aside from that I really enjoyed reading the final chapter in the Harry Potter Series.

[pirateXcore]

I heard this book sucks, luckily I was told everything about it and was able to ruin the ending for many, many, Hairy Pooter fans.

The ending made me laugh, this jk whatever lady has made how many millions of dollars off this series, and THATS the ending she comes up with? Makes me laugh at all the saps who got so into these books.

Then again, all this is just my opinion.

[Stu]

tgs, on Jul 22 2007, 08:51 AM, said:

I heard this book sucks, luckily I was told everything about it and was able to ruin the ending for many, many, Hairy Pooter fans.

The ending made me laugh, this jk whatever lady has made how many millions of dollars off this series, and THATS the ending she comes up with? Makes me laugh at all the saps who got so into these books.

Then again, all this is just my opinion.

harsh - but i agree on the sentiment ive never been able to get into harry potter myself (not that i really put alot of effort into it).

so, who died at the end? i heard a rumour it was going to be some sort of genocide... and was kind of hoping it was true.

[α∂αмяoss]

The book was fantastic. I finished it 5 hours after i got it. If you want to see some general info highlight my post.

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Horcruxes:
Hufflepuff's Cup
Marvolo Gaunts Ring
Nagini the Snake
Tom Riddle's Diary
Slytherin's locket
Ravenclaws Diadem
Harry Potter

Deathly Hallows:
Elder Wand
Resurrection Stone
Invisibility Cloak

Deceased:
Snape
Voldemort
Lupin
Tonks
Fred
Dobby
Bellatrix
Wormtail
Moody
Scrimgeour
Hedwig
Burbage
Gregorovitch
Crabbe
Dolohov

The book was great but the ending was a little stupid. If you want to read about the book check this out.

[EAXT]

Just finished it... can't believe it's over!! It was definetly the best of the 7!!!

[Mezzo]

I LOVED this book. It was by far my favourite book of the series. I honestly had no problem with the ending. JK is writing an encyclopedia of Harry Potter that'll go into details of all the characters and their back stories. It was such a gripping story and action filled and it was awesome....

[Stu]

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im not sure i understand why she did not kill him off? has she not just left it wide open for someone to jump in and capitlaise/ruin her hard work by testing the waters with some poorly written prequel then moving on to cheesey sequels in which he gets married and has kids who then go to the same school?

[Matthew.]

Stu, on Jul 29 2007, 03:09 PM, said:

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im not sure i understand why she did not kill him off? has she not just left it wide open for someone to jump in and capitlaise/ruin her hard work by testing the waters with some poorly written prequel then moving on to cheesey sequels in which he gets married and has kids who then go to the same school?

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Speaking from someone who is himself a massive Harry Potter fan and the friend of HUGE Harry Poter fan (an awkward scale to measure!) I think she did completely the right thing by not killing him off.

In fear of sounding a bit...sad...I started reading Harry Potter when it first came out and it has become quite a large part of my life. As ridiculous as it sounds I kind of hooked onto it when I was younger and haven't let go. I genuinely love it lol

I think if she killed him off she would have done at least 3 things:

1. Upset a lot of loyal fans
2. Closed the door to any follow-up by herself (she is planning to write an encyclopaedia of the characters life's as an extension to the prologue )
3. Killed off the massive amounts of people creating fan art/fan fiction. I think a lot of what Harry Potter is about for many people is the ambiguiting every booked seemed to end on...even a quick look in dA and you can find literally thousands of "Harry Potter endings" or similar things that people have created out of their imagination...with the current ending that can carry on, if she had killed him I think she would have killed it.

He was never going to die...I think the whole character of Dumbledore can tell you that. He was never going to let Harry die...I just liked the way JK wrote it so the confidence in Dumbledore's character was shaken

Also the way the story evolved towards the end was very clever I thought....killing him off would just be a messy ending.

[EAXT]

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Speaking from someone who is himself a massive Harry Potter fan and the friend of HUGE Harry Poter fan (an awkward scale to measure!) I think she did completely the right thing by not killing him off.

In fear of sounding a bit...sad...I started reading Harry Potter when it first came out and it has become quite a large part of my life. As ridiculous as it sounds I kind of hooked onto it when I was younger and haven't let go. I genuinely love it lol

I think if she killed him off she would have done at least 3 things:

1. Upset a lot of loyal fans
2. Closed the door to any follow-up by herself (she is planning to write an encyclopedia of the characters life's as an extension to the prologue )
3. Killed off the massive amounts of people creating fan art/fan fiction. I think a lot of what Harry Potter is about for many people is the ambiguities every booked seemed to end on...even a quick look in dA and you can find literally thousands of "Harry Potter endings" or similar things that people have created out of their imagination...with the current ending that can carry on, if she had killed him I think she would have killed it.

He was never going to die...I think the whole character of Dumbledore can tell you that. He was never going to let Harry die...I just liked the way JK wrote it so the confidence in Dumbledore's character was shaken

Also the way the story evolved towards the end was very clever I thought....killing him off would just be a messy ending.

That's absolutely true!

[Stu]

Matthew., on Jul 29 2007, 05:24 PM, said:

Stu, on Jul 29 2007, 03:09 PM, said:

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im not sure i understand why she did not kill him off? has she not just left it wide open for someone to jump in and capitlaise/ruin her hard work by testing the waters with some poorly written prequel then moving on to cheesey sequels in which he gets married and has kids who then go to the same school?

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Speaking from someone who is himself a massive Harry Potter fan and the friend of HUGE Harry Poter fan (an awkward scale to measure!) I think she did completely the right thing by not killing him off.

In fear of sounding a bit...sad...I started reading Harry Potter when it first came out and it has become quite a large part of my life. As ridiculous as it sounds I kind of hooked onto it when I was younger and haven't let go. I genuinely love it lol

I think if she killed him off she would have done at least 3 things:

1. Upset a lot of loyal fans
2. Closed the door to any follow-up by herself (she is planning to write an encyclopaedia of the characters life's as an extension to the prologue )
3. Killed off the massive amounts of people creating fan art/fan fiction. I think a lot of what Harry Potter is about for many people is the ambiguiting every booked seemed to end on...even a quick look in dA and you can find literally thousands of "Harry Potter endings" or similar things that people have created out of their imagination...with the current ending that can carry on, if she had killed him I think she would have killed it.

He was never going to die...I think the whole character of Dumbledore can tell you that. He was never going to let Harry die...I just liked the way JK wrote it so the confidence in Dumbledore's character was shaken

Also the way the story evolved towards the end was very clever I thought....killing him off would just be a messy ending.

i suppose you would have to be a harry potter fan to understand... ive never even seen any of the movies in full.

[Archangel]

The movies DEFINITELY don't do the books justice. They're good, but nothing like the books.

interestingly enough...out of all the HP books on movies so far the book from the most recent movie (book 5) is the longest of the first 5 books and movie 5 is the shortest of the first 5 movies.

Go figure.

[Matthew.]

Archangel, on Jul 30 2007, 12:19 PM, said:

The movies DEFINITELY don't do the books justice. They're good, but nothing like the books.

interestingly enough...out of all the HP books on movies so far the book from the most recent movie (book 5) is the longest of the first 5 books and movie 5 is the shortest of the first 5 movies.

Go figure.

That being said, although I still quite a few issues with it, film 5 was 'interpretation' they've managed so far. I tend to have the imagination of a spastic pepperoni so the films have helped me visualise things better when (re)reading the books...however Umbridge = WRONG. Completely wrong casting imo...

Actually I could go on forever in this post...I'm going to stop and grab some breakfast

[drcrazy4]

I didn't really understand OOTP the book at all. I thought the movie put it all very well.

[Archangel]

I would love to see what a spastic pepperoni looks like.

[Mezzo]

From an Artistic standpoint I thought the 5th movie was very well done. It was also my least favourite because it deviated from the book so much.

[EAXT]

For the 5th, they had no choice to do so. The 5th book in question was rather poor in content and could have been described as "The-social-school-and-love-life-of-Harry-Potter-with-some-action-at-the-end." I think the movie was amazingly done!

[vvtopkar]

Yeah the movie was well put together, but still made no sense if u read the book.

[Mezzo]

http://www.veritaserum.com/media/2007/07/j...t07-30-07.shtml

A great chat with JKR. Lots of good questions with a lot of good answers about characters and events in all of the Harry Potter novels.

WARNING!!! INCLUDES A LOT OF SPOILERS!!!!!