Sometimes, when I’m not watching TV, I read…
So let’s talk Harry Potter. More specifically, Deathly Hallows.
Anybody else think it was awesome? Because I did. And, Peter, I disagree with you. I was hooked from the very beginning. Although, I have a few comments.
- Who really cared about Bill and Fleur’s wedding? I love a good wedding but who reallys gives a rats behind? Remember how the whole wizarding world is going to hell? Let’s focus on that.
- Why is that whenever you read Fleur’s dialogue, you automatically want to read it out loud? Was that just me? I always felt like such a fool when someone walked in the room and I was all, “but Beel, eet eeez our weddding..” (I can’t locate the book right now to find a actual quote but you get the idea)
- Remember how Ron’s mom said “Bitch” ?! That was crazy. I was completely caught off guard.
- That ending was so perfect. I don’t really have many comments on it. Also, I consider the ending the part before the “19 years later.” Nothing wrong with the “19 years later” but I thought the ending before that was so beautiful. Sometimes I find jumps to the future to be cheesy and cliche - and it was - but since this is the last book, it was perfect. Otherwise, we might have felt cheated even if we didn’t want to admit it.
- Ron’s book on girls was the greatest.
Anyone else’s thoughts? Now that I’m typing these comments, I really have no coherent thoughts to share. Maybe I should’ve live blogged while I read - that would’ve been the longest blog ever though.
Posted on August 16th, 2007 by Lindsay
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I don’t know what to say about Deathly Hallows. I liked it. I read it slowly to enjoy every last drop of it’s Harry Potter goodness…and because my husband enjoys bothering me when I’m having fun.
I thought the epilogue was excessive. In some secret silly guilty pleasure kind of way I was glad to have it and it’s what I would have wanted, but then when I read it, it was too much. 2 thoughts about that in particular…1) I can’t believe Ginny Weasley did not push to have at least one of her children named after HER brother instead of all of Harry’s peeps. (I don’t know how to spell that, which probably means I shouldn’t use it…do you think it’s peops?) 2) I really would have liked to have felt like Harry had an even more active role in his God son’s life? Come on Harry, what’s the deal? Don’t you remember how important Sirius was to you?! Geez
About the story itself. I miss Hogwarts. I needed at least a smidgy bit of actual going to school at Hogwarts stuff. The main folks aren’t dead…the gang never actually completed their 7th year, I could see room for another book…except because of the epilogue we’d already know how it all works out…thanks a lot, JK!
What? No one else wants to talk about Harry Potter?
While reading the last one hundred pages, I was totally distracted by the drunk man on my Greyhound bus who kept growling “I don’t give a *#% about nobody, can’t nobody mess wi’ me” over and over again.
I’m definitely going to spell it “peops” from now on, and I’m going to agree that not naming a child Fred was weird. Some have speculated, I know, that perhaps George (or Bill) already named a kid Fred, but it still seemed like an oversight.