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Old 07-24-2007, 10:48 AM   #46
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Harry needed to be a Weasley, so that left Ginny or he and Ron moving to Massachusetts.
Or Canada! But I do agree with you - he needed to be a Weasley. Heck, who wouldn't want to be a Weasley? I know I would.

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Dobby wasn't innocent in the way Colin was. As Angela said, all Colin ever did was try to take pictures of his hero.
I know. But still. My immediate post-read reaction was that Hedwig's death hit me the hardest. But now, a few days later, it's Colin's death that really makes me the saddest. For whatever reason, it was never Fred, even though I ADORED the twins. I think I was more prepared for a non-Ron Weasley death than I realized, and so it was easier to accept and move on.
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Old 07-24-2007, 12:17 PM   #47
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Or Canada! But I do agree with you - he needed to be a Weasley. Heck, who wouldn't want to be a Weasley? I know I would.
OBHWF 4eva!!!

You know, I didn't know how much I wanted that to happen until after the book was over and it did.

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My immediate post-read reaction was that Hedwig's death hit me the hardest. But now, a few days later, it's Colin's death that really makes me the saddest.
For whatever reason, Colin's death didn't hit me at all. I think there were so many right there at the same time--Fred, the Lupins, etc--that I was just sort of numbed to the whole thing. What hit me hardest at the end of the book was Harry's encounter with his parents and Remus and Sirius, and his stoicism as he walked to meet his death. That was the one part where I actually cried hard enough that I had to put the book down and wipe my eyes.

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For whatever reason, it was never Fred, even though I ADORED the twins. I think I was more prepared for a non-Ron Weasley death than I realized, and so it was easier to accept and move on.
Maybe that's why I wasn't more moved by Fred, although (as someone said earlier) I did feel quite badly for George. He'll be the one to miss Fred the most. But I was just so overwhelmingly pleased that Ron and both parents survived that that may have mitigated my feelings about Fred's death.
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Old 07-24-2007, 12:55 PM   #48
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Well, I thought I would wait a few days after reading the book to try and sum it all up...
First I really did enjoy the book. It was so much better then HBP... I think more then anything I wanted to see Harry happy in the end... After everything he's been through he deserved the chance to live a happy normal (well as normal as possible) life.... I didn't even mind the H/G in this book as much as i did in HBP... It's not that I don't like H/G (yes I rather have H/Hr) but in the last book it was too much like bad fanfiction. I think JKR needed to build it up a little more between them... She had done well with H/G in the first couple of books, but then kinda let it fall to the side (IMO). Then it was like in HBP it came back out of nowhere oh i love you i love you, and left me feeling like WTH when did Harry start having feeling for Ginny.... Now as far as Hr/R go it was still kinda blah to me (better then HBP)... Though I think it has to do more with the fact that I have a hard time liking Ron... A part of me really wants to like Ron, but then the other half wants me to smack him for being a prat.... I know a lot of people really love Ron, but most of the time (after the 3rd book) he just rubs me the wrong way... So aside from the ships the book was great... It was a good mix of light/dark, humor/grief..... I also liked that she brought back some older characters (Mmm love me some Oliver Wood)... Plus we really got to see Neville come into his own in the book, and really show that he is a true Gryffindor.... It was also nice to learn more about Dumbledore and Snape...

What I didn't like about the book... Why did she have to kill both Lupin and Tonks!!! Maybe it was the way she did it.. To me it felt like she forgot about them then was like oh crap I need to do something oh i know i just kill them... It's fine if she wanted to kill them but I think they deserved better then oh their dead.... The only really other thing I didn't like was she left so many things open... Yes we know that H/G, Hr/R get married and have a couple kids.. But what about everything else? What do they do for a living did they go back to school? What about all the other characters? How did everyone deal with the aftermath of what happened? I hate having so many unanswered questions....

I only hope that she'll do some kind of question and answer about the book or write something about the other characters....


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Old 07-24-2007, 02:40 PM   #49
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Heck, who wouldn't want to be a Weasley? I know I would.
Especially if you're dueling an insane Death Eater with your mum in the room.
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Old 07-24-2007, 03:45 PM   #50
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For those left wanting more information about the fates of certain characters, you may be getting it in a few years - Rowling says she may publish a HP Encyclopedia.

Oh, and Arthur Weasley is the person who received a "reprieve" - but he was supposed to die in Book 5, originally, presumably after the attack by Nagini.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19935372/
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Old 07-24-2007, 03:50 PM   #51
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Rowling says she may publish a HP Encyclopedia.
Cool.

Glad Arthur survived after all then. Not much point to OBHWF if half of it is dead, I suppose.
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Old 07-24-2007, 04:05 PM   #52
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Does OBHWF = One Big Happy Weasly Family?
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Old 07-24-2007, 04:27 PM   #53
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Does OBHWF = One Big Happy Weasly Family?
Yep. And I'm personally very very happy that she didn't kill Arthur Weasley. I'm not sure what her reasons would have been, but I don't know that it would have enhanced the over-all plot for Harry at all. It would certainly have devastated Ron and all of the other Weasleys, but I don't think it would have made any difference to how the story ended for Harry, and so I think it was an unnecessary death that I'm glad was changed.
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Old 07-24-2007, 05:37 PM   #54
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I don't know where I mentioned it before (I've been blabbing all over the net, and offline as well, so who knows -- I might have brought it up here already), but I felt Colin was to show the sacrifice on behalf of the underaged students who were still willing to stay and fight, and the consequences they suffered. They were all supposed to leave by escaping through Aberforth's, but Colin stayed behind to fight.

That's really just a long-winded way of saying death of innocent? Wait, did Colin even fight or was he just stuck there? For some reason I can see Colin being there to fight, but now I cannot recall whether he was still at Hogwarts by choice or by just not getting out.
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Old 07-24-2007, 05:44 PM   #55
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For some reason I can see Colin being there to fight, but now I cannot recall whether he was still at Hogwarts by choice or by just not getting out.
Colin was in the DA; I'm sure he was there to fight.

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Thanks for the quote about Colin. I was pretty sure that was the case, but then I couldn't quite remember and I don't have my copy at the moment.
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Old 07-24-2007, 06:25 PM   #57
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As Angela said, all Colin ever did was try to take pictures of his hero.
Ack! Lovin' Lorne said... Sorry.

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Thanks for the quote about Colin.
No problem. Someone went to all the effort of transcribing it as a pdf; I may as well make use of it.
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I'm thinking I might be even more excited about the release of this up coming encyclopedia than I have been for any of the books so far! Then again, by the time it finally hits the shelves I could be well into my 40's and no longer all that interested.


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Eeek! I hate to post right after myself, but I just saw this at Mugglenet.com


Naomi Watts cast as Narcissa Malfoy in HBP movie:

Naomi Watts, Joseph Fiennes (brother of Ralph Fiennes, who plays Voldemort), and Stuart Townsend will join the Half-Blood Prince cast when filming starts in September. Naomi Watts will play the mother of Draco, Narcissa Malfoy. It is still unknown what roles the other two actors will play.

Interesting. I wonder who the other two will be? Rumor has it that Townsend has been cast as Bill Weasley and that Fiennes is going to be Tom Riddle Sr, which would only make sense. Sounds like they might also be looking at Bob Hoskins as Slughorn and Bill Nighy as Scrimgeour. Could work.
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Oh... Wow... I haven't been here in ages. It's nice to find a place where the HP talk isn't so intense.

I finished the book on saturday night and still haven't completely registered the fact that it's over. I'm still very much relieved that the trio survived though. I was so tense while the reading the final parts that I had to reread it afterwards.
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