Ok, here's the kind of crap to which the internet has been subjecting me:
So, I was dreading every time Bellatrix was on scene because I was waiting for Ron to snuff it.
It was awesome to see Mrs. Weasley take her out.
Also, damn... I was convinced Snape was a bad guy. I really like how he was redeemed... and just int he nick of time, huh. It will be enjoyable to reread/watch the entire series with this new info.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
The only clue I consciously noticed that said Snape would definitely be a good guy....
I think in book 6 (5?) there's a scene with Potter entering Dumbledor's office, and Harry complains abouyt Snape again (Professor Snape, Harry). Albus, again, says that he completely trusts Snape. The picture on the wall... the ex-Slytheryn headmaster, says, "Well I should say so." It was never touched upon besides that, but it was telling.
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"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
I felt like there should have been a chapter in between the Hogwarts War and the Epilogue, telling the aftermath of the battle.... how George was coping without Fred, stuff like that. What jobs they end up doing. Did Harry become an auror? Mopping up of Death Eaters, and putting down new dark-lord-wannabes. There was more to be said, I feel.
That being said, I'm a sucker for happy endings, so I was ok with the epilogue. Everybody manages to have a normal, happy lives (those who lived, anyway), in spite of the fucked up shit that happened to them as kids. Everybody even managed to be cordial with Draco, and vice versa..... everybody grew up. Severus Snape, possibly the most tragic figure in the entire series (and I'm willing to argue this), finally gets understood and remembered fondly. "19 years later" was pretty much a perfect "here's what happens to everyone" time frame. If JKR sneaks in any new books/short stories to fill in some of the points I just addressed as unanswered, we will always know how things turned out... 19 years later.
Oh, I'm now reading all the HP:DH discussion threads out there.... a few peeps have said JKR is going to write a book called "Hogwarts: A History." Could be good.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Someone pointed me toward this: the only one I looked at was "Molly vs. Bellatrix," but I thought that it was highly cool. The artist did well capturing that fight.
Ha... i just realized another Tolkien ripoff.... what is guarding the treasure at Gringotts? A dragon. What was guarding the treasure in The Hobbit? A dragon.
I mean, I know. But still.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
The last thing Snape says to Harry before he dies is "Look... at.... me...."
It was said that Harry's eyes were exactly like his mother's. And in that scene we are about to learn, from Snape's memories, that Harry's mother was Snape's only real friend, and that he deeply loved her from childhood and well past her death.
So by telling Harry to look at him, he wanted the last thing he saw before he died to be her eyes.....
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Yup. Interesting little touch. And it's nice to see a gay character where the fact that he's gay isn't a central theme of his character, it's just a throw-away side item. Heck, it never even really made it into the series.
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