OMG I love your Luna icon. Yes, I recall feeling the love at the end of that book, Particularly for secondary & tertiary characters! I think they need their own series.
Almost as soon as I was finished, I went and looked up JKR's post-book interviews and found out some more information on secondary/tertiary characters. Particularly Nevill and Luna. Though I want to know more about Draco, too. And basically everyone else.
Well, I started it when it originally came out and got almost half-way through (to "The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore") and for a variety of reasons (work, interest), I stopped. Plus, I was having troubling remembering all the horcrux stuff from Half-Blood Prince.
So with the movie coming out later this year, I figured, hey, good time to re-read! And jump on Deathly Hallows. Now I'm just wondering what my problem was the first time because I really loved it.
I kept bursting into tears all over the place. (When I first read it, even the quotes at the beginning made me cry...) And the last two chapters definitely killed me.
Wherever my Harry Potter love went to, it's definitely back full-force now.
I started and finished it on the one day it came out really.. living in the ruin of my unfurnised, unfinished apartment where I lived in a tent lol
I think I already cried about the dedication in the beginning, then all the way through the snape-lily story and then for the whole last chapters... especially about the last sentence. :)
I think I stopped reading it the first time because I didn't want to be bawling while I amused myself selling fruit stand peaches. Nothing turns people away than someone sniffling over their fresh fruit. :)
The Snape/Lily story...oh, man. I had a feeling it was coming, but it still broke my heart about. Especially the bit in Dumbledore's office about Snapes patronus. :( So beautifully sad.
But I was so glad to find that my suspicions about Snape's role in Dumbledore's death were correct. I was a little wary reading the book for fear of being disappointed. But I wasn't. At all. I was also really happy with the handling of Draco.
the snape-lily story was overkill, especially the patronus yes... but the whole childhood stuff was really good. and after 7 books of "you have your mother's eyes" the "look at me" was so :O
I've always doupted that snape was the bad guy, would have been much too easy and I would have been dissappointed too...
Some of the Snape backstory could be handled with more...subtlety. But I'm as much as a sucker for cliches as the next person and Rowling does have a specific audience.
I was just so happy that Snape wasn't just a bad guy. He's always been one of my favorite adult characters in the book because he may be a nasty, mean man, but I always thought there was something else going on underneath the surface.
Ha, and this just means that years ago when I was reading the first three and thought "Snape/Petunia! Forbidden love!" I wasn't ridiculously off the mark. ;) (Poor little Petunia, btw. Things could have turned out so differently.)
The part where I really just broke down and cried was when they were back at Hogwarts and Harry was all "You guys can't come I have to do this myself." But everybody was there for him and supporting him and he was never alone in all of it. Even though he felt alone. Ughhhhh. It makes me teary thinking of it.
Then, the part in the forest where his family shows up to be with him. UGHHHH.
OMG. I am a SUCKER for anytime a character is like, "I'm going to do this on my own because I have to, it's my responsibility" and then the group of characters is like, "We're are with you! No matter what!" Tears everywhere. It just...makes me so damn proud of all of them my heart can't contain it.
And I was SO HAPPY that Snape really was Dumbledore's!
I'm really looking forward to the next movie! There's a new trailer out and it's got me flailing all over the place. Though there's one part that I'm wondering if they completely made up because I can't place it at all. It's kind of driving me crazy with impatience for the movie.
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Date: 2009-04-20 02:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-04-20 05:50 am (UTC)Just lots and lots of love for everyone.
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Date: 2009-04-21 04:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-04-20 09:07 am (UTC)I cried for the last 2 chapters I think...
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Date: 2009-04-20 05:09 pm (UTC)So with the movie coming out later this year, I figured, hey, good time to re-read! And jump on Deathly Hallows. Now I'm just wondering what my problem was the first time because I really loved it.
I kept bursting into tears all over the place. (When I first read it, even the quotes at the beginning made me cry...) And the last two chapters definitely killed me.
Wherever my Harry Potter love went to, it's definitely back full-force now.
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Date: 2009-04-20 10:15 pm (UTC)I think I already cried about the dedication in the beginning, then all the way through the snape-lily story and then for the whole last chapters... especially about the last sentence. :)
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Date: 2009-04-21 04:29 am (UTC)I think I stopped reading it the first time because I didn't want to be bawling while I amused myself selling fruit stand peaches. Nothing turns people away than someone sniffling over their fresh fruit. :)
The Snape/Lily story...oh, man. I had a feeling it was coming, but it still broke my heart about. Especially the bit in Dumbledore's office about Snapes patronus. :( So beautifully sad.
But I was so glad to find that my suspicions about Snape's role in Dumbledore's death were correct. I was a little wary reading the book for fear of being disappointed. But I wasn't. At all. I was also really happy with the handling of Draco.
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Date: 2009-04-21 10:16 am (UTC)the snape-lily story was overkill, especially the patronus yes... but the whole childhood stuff was really good. and after 7 books of "you have your mother's eyes" the "look at me" was so :O
I've always doupted that snape was the bad guy, would have been much too easy and I would have been dissappointed too...
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Date: 2009-04-21 05:07 pm (UTC)I was just so happy that Snape wasn't just a bad guy. He's always been one of my favorite adult characters in the book because he may be a nasty, mean man, but I always thought there was something else going on underneath the surface.
Ha, and this just means that years ago when I was reading the first three and thought "Snape/Petunia! Forbidden love!" I wasn't ridiculously off the mark. ;) (Poor little Petunia, btw. Things could have turned out so differently.)
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Date: 2009-04-21 10:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-04-21 04:47 am (UTC)The part where I really just broke down and cried was when they were back at Hogwarts and Harry was all "You guys can't come I have to do this myself." But everybody was there for him and supporting him and he was never alone in all of it. Even though he felt alone. Ughhhhh. It makes me teary thinking of it.
Then, the part in the forest where his family shows up to be with him. UGHHHH.
Can't wait for MOVIE!
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Date: 2009-04-21 04:55 am (UTC)And I was SO HAPPY that Snape really was Dumbledore's!
I'm really looking forward to the next movie! There's a new trailer out and it's got me flailing all over the place. Though there's one part that I'm wondering if they completely made up because I can't place it at all. It's kind of driving me crazy with impatience for the movie.