FINALLY !!

Got it, read it, finished it. Wow.

Well, I must admit it was rather neat the way she made you think he was going to die, for a whole chapter I was sitting there saying "no, she's not REALLY going to, is she ?" and then not... hmmm... Nice twist, althought the Kings cross bit was rather weird. The flayed baby was a reminder of what Voldemort looked like before he did the whole "blood of my foe" bit and regained his body, to me.

I more or less agress with a lot of things that have been said, especially that the Happilogue was rather too gooey... And they lived happily ever after... Well, yeah, I would have liked to know more, not just that oh so surprisingly they all get married and name their kids after so-and-so (or cheap perfume, eh scorpius... ewww !) : what happened to the others ? was Teddy a werewolf after all ? Where does Harry live ? Who is headmaster of Hogwarts ? So many questions, interesting ones, that weren't answered by the mush in the Happilogue.

I liked finding out a little bit more in this article than Rowling put in the epilogue. I would love a Harry Potter encyclopedia, and I've read the two books JKR wrote for charity (Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) but I want to buy them.

It did bother me that there were so many loose ends at the end. Like what happened to Hogwarts, the ministry, Luna, George, Teddy, the surviving members of the Order, and the Dursley's? Even a little more on Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny's lives besides the fact that they had families. I liked the backstory of Petunia, Snape, and Dumbledore and his brother. I went back and read this thread and I was surprised how close many of the guesses as to what would happen came true.

I was glad Snape turned out to be good, Harry defeated Lord Voldemort without dying too, Harry and Ginny and Ron and Hermione got together in the end. I knew this was a war and some characters had to die but I didn't like it when both Lupin and Tonks died. What happened to Teddy was too close to what happened to Harry when he had to grow up with out parents even though Teddy probably has better relatives than the Dursleys. I think my sister said this or maybe I read it on the internet or I could even be pulling this out of thin air but I heard that JKR probably won't be writing more about Harry Potter but she might do more within Harry's world and my sister thinks it will be about Teddy.

My sister likes the books but makes fun of me when I talk about it, she says she wants to make sure I know these characters aren't really real. I've read on the internet about adults who went dressed up in wizard gear to buy the new book and I wouldn't go that far. I'm reading the book again now, but I think over all I liked it and I'm kind of sad that Harry Potter is over. I can still look forward to the movies even if they aren't as good as the books, I still haven't seen the 5th movie and I think I may even go by myself since I can't seem to get anyone that wants to go with me because they all went and saw it already.