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 Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:35 pm
It's all over! gonk
Did anyone else get their copy of Harry Potter this weekend? Anyone else finish? Comments? Opinions? >.>
Try and mark spoilers if you want to use them, too, guys. :3
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Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:50 pm
I finished it last night (I've been on vacation and only have time to read at night....)
I was sobbing last night and woke my roomie up... sweatdrop
I loved it though. I fave of the books!
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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:18 pm
I cried at the end of it. Not only 'cause my favorite character died (-sob-), but also because it's the end. Forever! No more HP books to look forward to! It's so sad..
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:05 am
I've read it all the way through Saturday and Sunday and even though I was not left completely satisfied with it, it was such a wonder-filled read.
I cried several times and I still can't believe it's all truly over. Like really over. Like in "the end" over. ;_;
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:10 am
Yeahh... same here. I bawled at the end... the whole last few chapters, I was crying my eyes out. It feels sort of anticlimactic, in a way. I mean... 8 years of reading and rereading. Eight years of waiting. And in the end, it just ended like any other series of novels I've ever read. Like so many other endings.
Part of the real magic, though, was the way the whole world was so spellbound by this. That's what really disappoints me - that, except for an occasional convention, and the much-less-cool movies, that's the last gathering of HP fans I will ever see. ._.
The Epilogue bothered me a little, too. Anyone else get that? I expected something more ... immediate. Instead, it was just kind of out there. We didn't get to really see the effects of all the events in the book and how they resolved themselves, and that bothers me a little.
I enjoyed seeing the theories other people expounded on being proved and disproved, though. There was so much wild speculation as to what would happen, and although I didn't choose sides in any of it, it was funny to see what actually happened after all those storms of guessing. Made me giggle, in some places.
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:36 pm
I finished it today. ;_; T'was quite sad. All my favorite characters have died throughout the series. D:
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:58 am
Yeah... all of mine did, too. ._.
[Spoilers - highlight to read: Except Mr. Weasley. I dunno why I like him so much, but I was really happy to see that he lived. And Luna and Xeno Lovegood, they got out okay. But I've been predicting since his entrance in the third book that Lupin would die. ._. I just knew it would happen. The characters I like best are always doomed from the start.]
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 11:09 am
Magentian Yeah... all of mine did, too. ._. [Spoilers - highlight to read: Except Mr. Weasley. I dunno why I like him so much, but I was really happy to see that he lived. And Luna and Xeno Lovegood, they got out okay. But I've been predicting since his entrance in the third book that Lupin would die. ._. I just knew it would happen. The characters I like best are always doomed from the start.]
According to an article I read, [spoiler time, kinda!]:
Rowling had intended to kill off Mr. Weasley in the fifth book, but she said that she couldn't do it. Then she said she couldn't do it at all, so he got to live. I will miss Remus terribly. T__T My favorite. ;_;
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:22 am
Cereal Murder Magentian Yeah... all of mine did, too. ._. [Spoilers - highlight to read: Except Mr. Weasley. I dunno why I like him so much, but I was really happy to see that he lived. And Luna and Xeno Lovegood, they got out okay. But I've been predicting since his entrance in the third book that Lupin would die. ._. I just knew it would happen. The characters I like best are always doomed from the start.]
According to an article I read, [spoiler time, kinda!]:
Rowling had intended to kill off Mr. Weasley in the fifth book, but she said that she couldn't do it. Then she said she couldn't do it at all, so he got to live. I will miss Remus terribly. T__T My favorite. ;_;
I KNEW IT! I knew it! See, only cold feet saved him. *feels like a prescient god* [kinda-spoiler: Well, at least this way she didn't have to write Weasley!Angst. That would have made the whole fifth book a lot more melodramatic than it already was... so I'm kind of glad that was the case. ]
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Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 9:44 am
I got the last Harry Potter book the night it came out and finished reading it that same day.. I am not very happy that the series is over I wish that it would have been at least one book longer. I think that the last book in general was not as good as some of the others. Over half of the thing took place in a forest with Harry, Ron and Hermione just exchanging the locket because they couldn't find a way to destroy it. So in a way towards the end and the beginning everything seemed rushed and less detail was added.
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Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 11:26 am
I'm not sure why, but the only time i cried was when Harry left the dursleys. At that moment my brain said "so this is really it. this'll be Harry's last time." I just started bawling.
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Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 10:52 pm
Elisabell-angel enraged I'm not sure why, but the only time i cried was when Harry left the dursleys. At that moment my brain said "so this is really it. this'll be Harry's last time." I just started bawling. Really? I bawled the entire durration of the chapter The Forest Again, that was by far the saddest part in the entire series.
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:32 pm
Haha... it seems like a lot of people are dissatisfied with the last book. Now that I've gotten to college, it seems it's getting ragged on even more intensely than before. I'm not really sure why... aside from the Epilogue, and the entire myth-thing that was just introduced out of nowhere, I didn't find anything inherently repellent about it.
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 9:36 pm
Magentian Haha... it seems like a lot of people are dissatisfied with the last book. Now that I've gotten to college, it seems it's getting ragged on even more intensely than before. I'm not really sure why... aside from the Epilogue, and the entire myth-thing that was just introduced out of nowhere, I didn't find anything inherently repellent about it.
I wasn't too impressed with it. Yes, I did love it, but it wasn't what I expected. Basically, it just felt like a big long camping trip with a few great action scenes in the middle. It really wasn't until the end that lots started happening.
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Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 7:57 pm
Yeah... it wasn't really what I expected, either. I mean, I hadn't thought there would be constant action scenes - that would just be weird, considering - but I expected... well, almost more of a journey than there had been. Like, more roving about England on brooms searching for leads, more character death in a more gradual way, stuff like that.
The way that it played out, though, I wasn't too disappointed in that. The way that the deaths were all piled on at the end was kind of silly, but I sort of expected the camping part... it was somewhat realistic, which is what I liked about it.
If you don't mind my asking, Gao, what was it that you expected? I'm curious to hear it. biggrin I tend not to form a lot of ideas about books and such before they come in, but it's always interesting to hear others' theories.
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