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Are You Ready to Discuss Harry Potter Book 7?

By , About.com GuideJuly 26, 2007

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Have you finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows yet? I haven't. If you have, join the HP 7: Thoughts? SPOILERS! discussion on the About.com Children's Books Forum. If not, skip this About.com: Children's Books Forum discussion until you have finished reading the book.
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July 27, 2007 at 2:13 pm
(1) Somayeh :

I Still say this book sucked, but here are some questions that I can answer.

The Gryffindor sword came to Neville due to him being loyal and believing in Dumbledore just like Harry in Chamber of secrets, it did not matter that the goblin’s had it at all.

The Seventh horucox (sorry if i spelled that wrong) is inside Harry and that was the one destroyed. His mothers protection saved him on the first attach, therefore, the last fight is where the prophecy came true, one in the end must die.

Harry was invisible in the great hall because he was hiding under the invisibility cloak, at that point he was not dead.

Snape has always hated Harry because of his father; however, he had always protected him because of her (Lily).

As to Boris comment regarding complaining about Harry and how he did not due much because Dumbledore expected his friends to help him, I say you’re wrong. Sure Dumbledore expected his friends to help, but one would think Harry would take the time to research during the summer or prepare for the ordeal to come like Hermoine and Ron. But no, he proved Snape right in the end in my opinion. Acting like he is just as good as Dumbledore without preparing or researching about the Horoxes! I personally think he should have died 10 times over.

And I have one question for myself, who ends up being the headmaster at Hogwarts? That question was never answered as far as i know and i read the book 4 times already! If anyone knows, let me know please and oh this books sucks!

Thanks

July 28, 2007 at 6:02 pm
(2) aman :

THE BOOK DUZ NOT SUCK!STOP SAYIN THAT!sum bits wer so nailbiting, u cud actuali bite ur whole fingers off insted k!so neway erm i gess tht da headmistress is professor mcgonagal(spelt wrong) bt yehhh defoooooooo professor mcgonagaol nt much argument bout tht . . .

buh sum1 tell me wat dudley saw wen d dementors atakd him too plzzz. . . .

August 23, 2007 at 1:44 pm
(3) Lisa :

I don’t understand how the invisibility cloak was a hallow when in the fifth book when harry is hiding under it on the train to hogwarts in order to spy on malfoy, malfoy jinxes him through it, when in the seventh book the cloak manages to deflect jinxes. Also the cloak is meant to stop anybody from seeing through it but tonks and madeye both managed to see through it in the earlier books.
Does anyone have an explanation for this

September 6, 2007 at 3:20 pm
(4) Katie :

well i think that it wasnt what dudly seen with the dementors it was how they took the happyness from him. i think it was a great book i but it still might need a fallow up to fill in the blanks. but even thought i think that is how j.k. wanted to end the serries

June 23, 2008 at 8:13 am
(5) zabby d witch :

i think the cloak was able to deflect jinxes at book 7 becoz that was the time harry already had the protective spell on him after he died. it wasnt the cloak protecting him from the jinx but the spell harry conjured because he sacrificed himself in order to save the others.

June 23, 2008 at 8:13 am
(6) zabby d witch :

i think it wasnt the cloak that was able to deflect jinxes at book 7 becoz that was the time harry already had the protective spell on him after he died. it wasnt the cloak protecting him from the jinx but the spell harry conjured because he sacrificed himself in order to save the others.

January 6, 2009 at 10:26 pm
(7) Angel Z :

The cloak neve deflected any jinx, it merely didn’t respond to charms cast on it. basically, the jinx wich Malfoy cast went through it without affecting it in the slghtest, and hit Harry fully.

September 19, 2009 at 4:47 am
(8) Harry Potter Fan :

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows does not suck! I wish you would stop saying that. I love it! It is the best in the series.

January 4, 2010 at 1:21 am
(9) Kitty :

Ah, yeah, it sucked. The writing was terrible. I compared it to Sorcerer’s Stone and was appalled by the extreme difference in fluency and believability.

The plot made no sense. Instead of tying up loose ends, it created many, many more. A large number of open-ended subplots were left untended to.

Rowling killed off characters left and right, hardly allowing their comrades nor, for that matter, her readers the time to properly mourn for them. The only death that really pulled off any sort of emotional affect was Hedwig’s.

And, of course, the problematic amount of /too/ much dialogue. While Rowling’s works generally tell the story through witty and amusing description, everything in the final book was spoken in lengthy exposition. Characters who came off as quiet and brooding, such as Harry, are suddenly quite chatty. Other character development was awkward rather than applaudable, especially when comparing to the subtle nuances that she has pulled off so well in previous books.

Finally, the horrifying epilogue. It seems ripped off straight from Fanfiction.net. The names for their children were downright silly. The writing was audacious. The conversations even worse!

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July 9, 2010 at 7:32 am
(10) Timmie :

Harry Potter 7 was the most epic of all in the series. It tied the series plot together in a way that answered old questions and posed new ones to give the reader something to think about. Yes J.K Rowling did kill off important characters. That made all the violence seem and sensless death have a bigger impact. Hedwig’s death was not the only one that pulled off and emotional impact. In fact, the only death that did not pull an emotional impact is Snape’s (and of course Bellatrix and Voldemort).
I have been an avid Harry Potter fan since the beginning and that will never change.

October 20, 2010 at 1:58 pm
(11) sam :

Personally, I thought the deaths were all necessary to create the atmosphere of panic that J.K. was trying to reach. Comparing this to our reality, it is being personally involved in taking down a dictatorship (vaguely…) I thought the deaths helped create this panic quite efficiently. For me, the most emotional death by FAR was dobby. I cried for a good 10 minutes the first time it happened. For J.K. to make that much character developement happen in 5 books was masterful! In book 2 i did not like dobby at all. when he died, i died a little. props to J.K. To all you haters out there, stop reading the book over and over again just so you can find more ‘facts’ to argue how it’s bad. The series was headed in a dark direction, and i think j.k. outdid herself with the amount of growth that took place booth in her development of characters and plots.

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