Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Jul. 21st, 2007 02:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rsadelleThere are spoilers in this post. Do not click on the lj-cut if you don't want to be spoiled.
Ohhhh, that was a satisfying book. JKR has really learned to write.
I loved Snape's memories, and this: "But he was home. Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here."
Plus, you know, death and resurrection. Even if there isn't the disappearing body, it works as a heroic journey.
And the Malfoys. I liked that all Lucius and Narcissa care about is Draco, and that Harry and Ron save Draco and Goyle.
My one disappointment is that it was Harry/Ginny and not Harry/Luna; I still think the Harry/Ginny is a little out of nowhere and Luna's perfect for Harry.
Ohhhh, that was a satisfying book. JKR has really learned to write.
I loved Snape's memories, and this: "But he was home. Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here."
Plus, you know, death and resurrection. Even if there isn't the disappearing body, it works as a heroic journey.
And the Malfoys. I liked that all Lucius and Narcissa care about is Draco, and that Harry and Ron save Draco and Goyle.
My one disappointment is that it was Harry/Ginny and not Harry/Luna; I still think the Harry/Ginny is a little out of nowhere and Luna's perfect for Harry.
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Date: 2007-07-21 10:41 pm (UTC)I actually also like Harry/Luna, but it's so clear that Harry has to symbolically join the Weasleys, who are really his surrogate family, that I expect that's why she did it that way. Still, at least she didn't *also* pair up Luna and Neville; at least that's one less step fic writers need to undo in writing their own Harry/Luna.
And yeah, I think that line you pointed out--But he was home. Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here."--was definitely one of the best ones of the whole book.
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Date: 2007-07-23 02:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-24 06:34 am (UTC)Though I was disappointed that we didn't get to see Luna in the epilogue...
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Date: 2007-07-24 02:06 pm (UTC)