Rant with LOTS of spoilers, beware. Obligatory text: blaaah blaaaah blaaaah, I don’t know what to say in the obligatory text… blaaah blaaah blaaah. I must disagree, I enjoyed this book (but I enjoyed them all, I can’t see them objectively, I’m too attached to judge them fairly). Some more text, blaah blaaah. Blaaaaah blaaaah. Blaaaah. Anything I feel like saying here would need a spoiler tag of it’s own, so I can’t say it. I used to divide my old class into the 4 houses, making a list of who’s in what house, and then at the end of the term I bought candy for the house that won the most points (points were awarded by me, obviously, for homework done and stuff like that). I used to wear Harry Potter-like robes to school, and I had a wand too, just for fun lol. Sometimes I feel like Luna Lovegood…
Okay, here comes the spoiler text.
[spoiler]I need to rant, I’m sorry, I need to! This is not a review or opinions about the book…
goes silent… I promised myself I would finish knitting my Slytherin-colored scarf if Snape survived… I’m going to finish knitting it anyway, in his honor.
/me bursts into tears.
Snape is (was?) my favorite character, I always believed he was good (see my earlier posts in this thread, you’ll see). Even throughout the seventh book, I still believed my theory to be right - I kept thinking, the silver doe MUST be his! I knew he would prove himself in the end.
I am mourning, okay?? lol. I’m mourning. Forgive my silly and pointless rant… I’m mourning.[/spoiler]
And I just noticed smilies show up within spoiler-tag areas removes all smilies.
um maybe I said too much now 
You had to highlight the spoiler tag, didn’t you? 
Now, look at that. Look what you’ve done: you spoiled it for yourself. 
Now you stand there all soaked and miserable 
because the book is no longer fun. Shame on you… 
Last chance to change your mind and de–highlight this spoiler tag. 
Three! :shock:
, it would seem). Secondly, to kill time :time: — Harry Potter: great thing to read during chemistry classes 
, or in the metro, or when you’re in town but your friends are not, and you can’t be bothered reading something too serious (like 
). Third and more recently, because Potter has become a social phoenomenon and I’d like to understand what happened that made that particular story become so much 
for so many people.
Stating you admire Jo for how she plots her story is like stating you admire a guitarist who plays really fast solo in which he never leaves the C harmonic scale (cough Dream Theater cough — lol look at me talking like that about one of my favourite bands! 
)…
SERIOUSLY! And Harry marrying Ginny, it just “happened,” it’s not like something built up, consistently; it wasn’t something I was hooked on and wanted to see what happened. What about those twists, like Draco being the master of the super wand? 
The way she describes the Ministry of Magic after Voldemort takes over it; her depiction of Harry and Hermione’s lives as refugees 
, Harry’s affair with Cho and the way he’s completely pathetic around girls… That’s real! That’s something worth reading. It’s the silly things, I know, the details, but to me, that’s what made Harry Potter worth reading.
), it was refreshing, to say the least, seeing how she gave us some real background for Dumbledore (ooh so he had an obscure evil past as well!), or Mrs Weasley (I would have never imagined she would use an 
No, no. It was one of Jo’s good deeds in book seven: if it was going to be war, then lots of people, no matter how important to the plot, would die, pretty much at random. 
Casualties, like in any other war. This is also why I don’t feel she did wrong not to make too big a deal of Remus’ or Tonks’ deaths. It was something that happened on the run, and yes, it was sad, but people couldn’t just stop what they were doing and regret, could they?
) or 
). I don’t think it’s worth defending or anything.
