AUGH! Oh my, i didn't even realise this was here, and i'm the biggest Potterhead around! SHAME!
Yes, many of my theories happened also. Hang on and i'll post everything i've put up on the bookclub i'm on: *rummages around*
Primary thoughts and feelings:
- DD was fascinating, as always, in this book for being revealed - possibly for the first time ever - openly and genuinally capable of very bad things. I still love him though ahd always will. Dumbledore's Army lives!
- Neville is the most wonderful human being to walk the HP earth - so's Harry of course but Neville takes a very close second!
- Ron and Hermy = love - FINALLY, FINALLY, FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Mrs Weasley can kick arse, and that's where Ginny gets it from. Best line ever: "Not my daughter you bitch!!!!" *applause*
- Red herrings, a fair few of 'em - really threw me off in moments!
- Hogwarts united is one heck of a force. GO TEAM!
- Draco..... a pleasant suprise, i must say.
- Wandlore - who knew it could be so dam complex?!
- Luna said the sweetest thing to Harry when they faced the Dementors - i can't quite recall it but it made me tear up...
- is there a braver soul around than Harry? I think not
- children - they all have families now! Hurray for good things
- as for the Harry horcrux and the Lily/Snape thing, i am happy to see my theories (well, mine and many others of course) in print, certified! That felt good!
- RIP to the following:
Hedwig. The bestest owl there was.
Dobby. A free elf with a heart of gold.
Lupin and Tonks. My fav couple. I sobed like an idiot when that happened. Completely broke down
Snape. I never liked you but i respect you now, at the end. Thanks mate, and i'm sorry
Fred. You made me laugh for years - you rock!!!!!
Colin Creevey. Bless that little Harry fanboy foever!
Lavender Brown (i think she's dead). Poor giggly girl
Scrimgeour. Well, i could say you had it coming but that's not fair
i think i would have preferred the story to end without the epilogue, coz i don't like things being so sugary sweet... i've always been a bit harsh like that with how i wanted Harry to conclude... my opinion is that the series opened without a sense of absolute happiness and logically it should end that way. I think that finishing it with the final chapter as it was would have worked fine - i prefer to imagine continuations anyway. But still, i am both a H/G and a R/Hr shipper, so in that sense i was pleased to see they all went and got busy! (hehe, i'm so tactless!)
I saw the train station as Harry's version of purgatory sort of... it was definately interesting to have DD refer to crossing over as boarding a train! And the Malfoys are still loathable but it was nice to see that at least within the confines of their own family, they can feel love and compassion and all such human things. Neville sort of got his moment with destroying a Hrocrux but yes, i think that everyone felt taking Bella down was his to do - even if Mrs W said the best line in the book while doing it!
The gleam of DD's from GOF was never answered directly (like a few things actually) but i suppose it was just the conclusion we had already come to, about a part of Haz being in Voldy and how that would 'infect' V with the emotions and instincts he lacked and loathed, and how this could aid the destruction of the horcrux residing withing Haz... ok, that last part i just added on due to info provided in HPB and DH (and as the gleam came in GOF i'm way out of whack) but basically i suppose DD felt relieved and hopeful that the playing field was was levelled somewhat by that first act, and then upon learning of the horcruxes i expect he felt that Haz actually had the advantage. I don't know whether or not i will ever feel that DD was truly 'using' Harry, because i do believe firmly in his strong and sincere affection for him, and i am certain he would have always been rooting for other ways around each issue other than having Harry sacrifice himself.... note, that so much of the information left unsaid until the end may have been for this purpose also.... now i don't even know what i'm saying! But i just can't stand the idea of DD consciously awaiting Harry's death... i just can't. It's more than finding out a role model has 'feet of clay', it's moire than finding out about Santa.... it's like getting slapped in the face a dozen times over and then told no one loves you! It's THAT hard to fathom!
G/H and Hr/R all the way, people! Also, if i could bring back the dead i want L/T forever, and ideally i do believe that Luna and Neville would be bloody adorable together - when they're a little older.
As for Snape's love for Lily, yes it was a little disturbing at times - i don't want to think of that man as a lover... shudder! - but i think ultimately it softened him enough for me to say i don't consider him evil or 'bad' but i still don't care one ounch for his personality or his actions towards Harry and several other people throughout the years (regardless of the 'which side' debate - he was still an utter BASTARD to Neville, Hermione, Lupin, Sirius etc.) The only part of the Snape-loves-Lily element that truly moved me was realising just what he meant when he demanded to Harry "look at me" when he was dying... at first i thought it was just a plea for some form of trust and acknowledgement but then it hit me (via a friend's guidance) - Harry, as we've been told a million times, has his mum's eyes and by looking into them Snape could see Lily once more before he went.
*Oh, and i have one more thing i must say on the Snape-loves-Lily issue. His mentality (Snapes') was actually quite sick as far as the spare her life deal was concerned. What was he thinking - oh, she'll lose her husband and her kid and i'm knowlingly accepting that because it means we can be together!!! Hurray! -
NO!