FINISHED.

[hope]

*collapse*


ETA: just in case, avoid comments for spoilers.

ETA2: DEFINITELY avoid comments for spoilers.

ETA3:

- I loved all the double entendres.

- I loved Molly Weasley's Ripley moment (A LOT)

- NEVILLE. NEVILLE! ILU, NEVILLE!

- One can't help but think that the epilogue existed at least partially to thwart the 'ginny is a slut' people/harmonians.

- Started weeping when Harry found out the doe was Snape's patronus. Was weeping so much when Harry was walking to his 'death' that I could barely see the page.

- Was utterly confused by the "who's wand is it anyway?" speech. Huh? I do not get it. (And if *I* don't get it... isn't this supposed to be a kid's book?)

- The epilogue reminded me so much of gekizetsu's Salvation 'verse. SO MUCH I CAN'T EVEN.

Comments

[phantomas.livejournal.com]

Now spoil me! I won't read it for a while *G* Most of all, I'm curious to know if the pages I've seen photographed and floating on the web were the real thing or now :D

[hope]

i didn't see no photographs, so would not be able to verify. What do you want to know?

[phantomas.livejournal.com]

Who lives, who dies, who gets married and if the last page is about someone's son named after two headmasters going to Hogwarts for his first year, and one of those headmasters is Snape :)

(you may want to delete, screen this? )

[hope]

Dead: Mad-eye Moody, Fred, Snape, Tonks, Lupin, Colin Creevy (noes!). Alive: Everyone else.

Married: Bill & Fleur, Ron & Hermione, Harry & Ginny.

Harry's second son is named Albus Severus Potter, and the epilogue is set "19 years later".

HOW YA LIKE THEM APPLES?

[phantomas.livejournal.com]

Ahh, so the pages I've seen were the real ones!
And EEEEEKKKKK! FRED!!!!!! *denial denial denial*

Eh :D
I can imagine, for those really into it, how it must feel. I felt like that when the last LotR came out :D

End of an ERA!

thank you!

[gretazreta.livejournal.com]

Seriously, Fred dying was SO FREAKING SAD.

In fact the book as a whole has some really sad emotional bits. Sadder than Sirius dying, in lots of ways, because it's in the context of battles, and so is kind of inevitable and expected and GUH! Fred!

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

*revivifying headmassage*

[hope]

Why Thank-yoh. *sips gin*

[vissy.livejournal.com]

ME TOO.

[hope]

YAY! Now you can relax for the first time in like, 10 years, right?

[vissy.livejournal.com]

It took me 10 years to read it today. Kept stopping to hug the cats or have nervous wees.

[hope]

I HAVE HAD OVERPOWERING URGES TO WEE ALL DAY TOO!

In fact, I have one right now! Except I'm resisting it, because I JUST PEED, LIKE, HALF AN HOUR AGO.

I also dreamt last night of flaming meteors falling and destroying civilisation last night.

[andraste-oz.livejournal.com]

I have just got out of bed having finished it. Now I can be on the internets again!!

[gretazreta.livejournal.com]

yes, yes and YES.

I cried hardest for Snape. Seriously, SNAPE. But I thought that last walk was... god it was so well written.

And I agree about the wand bit. Mind you it was about 3am in the morning at that stage and I'd been reading since about 6.30 pm so I might have to go over it again. I was going "okay, so you're bad, Harry's good, he's motivated by love, YOU SUCK." I think that was about it, but more complicated?

And did anyone seriously think for a minute Ron wasn't going to come back?

But overall, whew, I thought she really outdid herself.

Albus Severus. (sniffle)

[dotfic.livejournal.com]

The wand thing confused me too. I reread the page several times. Sooner or later there will be a post on my flist that will explain it, I'm sure. I kind of hand-waved and HURRY UP OMG TURN THE PAGE. Heh.

[daniel-bethany.livejournal.com]

i think the wand thing worked like this:

it was dumbledore's wand, until draco won it off him in the tower at the end of book 6, so it became his (even though snape killed him, it was draco that got the wand off him). harry defeated draco, so then it was his (even though draco never had that wand).

or something.

i'm really not sure about that whole "19 years later" bit. it felt like really bad fan fiction.