Harry Potter/Deathly Hallows(POSS SPOILERS)

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So...who got the book and who has read all of it?
I am up to about page 120 so far as I like to take my time, but I do know some of what happens and...about Snape...that really disappointed me.

I've read all of it...

I actually quite liked that aspect of it... I won't say more, because I saw the spoilers too (three different ones, even the so called official ones attached to the supposed phto's) and they were all wrong.

I got in sunday lunchtime, finished it monday morning. I'm now re-reading the series and am halfway through Prisoner of Azkaban. Now you know the whole story you can see all the threads through the previous book and can see what's going on (and what will be going on).

I plan on re-reading from book 4 most likely.
I don't feel like re-reading books 1-3 right now.
I am relieved that the final two books are to be turned into films, but I don't relish seeing 20 year olds playing 17 yr olds.
I noted that a few of them looked far too old to be playing 15 yr olds in OOTP.

I've read a half of chapters but not in a chronological order - some of them I read in English on my own, the rest is a work of young translators into Polish, murdering the language in really terrible way if I must be sincere. But it doesn't matter. I must admit to be a bit disappointed - I have read so many really good fanfics that the original work of Mrs Rowling seems to be simply boring if compared. Not quite fresh. Too much ideas from HP and DH seem to come from fanfiction of poor quality, like for instance the motive of Snape's love to Harry's mother. There was too much deaths even for me. In the previous volumes of the series deaths of Sirius and Dumbledore made more impression because every time there was only one dead character in book and nobody expected they'd die while here we knew that somebody'd give his/her life - it's a war against the powerful black wizard, after all. I know a lot of fics that are much better, more interesting, using more sophisticated vocabulary. Like Enahma's whose trilogy was one of the very first fanfics I ever read. There are also very good Harry fanfiction writers in my country - Toroj, Naja Snake, Leszek, Barty Crouch Syn...

I haven't read all of it, i got it in the mail at 12:11:36 pm on saturday i've been reading it allowed with my parents so we won't have to take turns were more than half way. i want to say who has died so far, but i don't want to spoil it. i'll just say their first innitials, these are the main deaths from beginning to page 477 (thats where we are)
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sorry, i couldn't hold it in sorry.
but i am loving the book so far, it is a masterpeice of literacy

Oh, wow, woo hoo, I found out I was totally right about Snape and Lily etc etc, lol.
So pleased now.

Finished it Sunday morning....

I pretty much loved it.

There are like seven Book 7 threads here right now. XD

I finished it, but there are two things in the book that "irk" me. neither is all that central to the story so I assume I'm safe in posting it here but just in case.

SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT

DO NOT READ FUTHER IF YOU WANT TO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS.




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One on pages 300- 500 they say several times that no one can see through harry's cloak. though wasn't in just in the last book that they said Mad eye could see under it, and indeed anyone with a magical eye could.


Two. Voldemort is in Ravenclaw. However, in the first book when they are about to be sorted, doesn't Ron whisper, "They say there isn't a witch or wizard who went bad that wasn't in Slytherin." Given voldemort's popularity, ad the fact Ron grew up hearing about him, don't you think he would have known that Voldemort wasn't in Slytherin

Ahh. that's right. I could have sworn, I read that he was a Ravenclaw

I also noticed that the Elder Wand changed hands (from Grindelwald to Dumbledore) without blood being spilled.

What I wonder is how Neville got the sword from Griphook.

I'm thinking that he got it out of the hat like Harry did in CoS (thus being a "true Gryffindor"). Maybe it disappeared from Griphook's hands because it belonged to the school and to Godric Gryffindor (like the hat itself), or something? I hope it'll be in that encyclopedia JKR eventually intends to write.

I finished it last night and I really enjoyed it, even the epilouge. I would have liked to know more about what happened to certain characters though.

I loved it. Best one of the series. What do you guys think that dying baby near Harry when he was talking to imaginary dumbledore was? I guess it represents the dead soul of voldemort within harry?