Harry Potter Book 7 *SPOILERS*

[JunieJay]

OK, here's another one:

How did Snape get sorted into Slytherin? I thought Slytherin only took purebloods - after all, their motto is "Toujours pur" - Always pure.

Snape is a half-blood.

I think they prefer pure blood, but they do take half blood in the Slytherin house. After all, Tom Riddle was a half blood and he was in Slytherin house too.

 

[JunieJay]

And so is Voldemort- he was in Slytherin, too.

Oooh, another person I share wand feathers with.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

Regardless, "Tourjours pur" is the family motto of the most noble and ancient house of Black. As far as I know, Slytherin does not have a motto...

 

[JunieJay]

Did we ever really resolve the question of Petunia and what Dumbledore said to get her to assume responsibility for protecting Harry? Or are we just to assume that she felt some residual guilt over Lily's death? That was harder for me to accept until I read DH...the first time we were able to see just how jealous Petunia was, and how she actually loved her sister at one time.

 

[WaltD4Me]

I was sad that Petunia didnt take her chance to say something to Harry as she was leaving Privet Drive. Even if it was only "Good Luck" but just something. He was her sister's son and obviously she loved her sister...she was still sending her Christmas presents after Lily married James (In a letter, Lily mentions an ugly vase that got broken, one that Petunia sent her for Christmas) so even if it very small, I wish Petunia would have made some sort of gesture to Harry in the end.

 

[Accentuate+]

I was sad that Petunia didnt take her chance to say something to Harry as she was leaving Privet Drive. Even if it was only "Good Luck" but just something. He was her sister's son and obviously she loved her sister...she was still sending her Christmas presents after Lily married James (In a letter, Lily mentions an ugly vase that got broken, one that Petunia sent her for Christmas) so even if it very small, I wish Petunia would have made some sort of gesture to Harry in the end.

Petunia sent a gift out of a sense of...I dunno whether responsibility is the right word. She has to be able think she's above Lily and Harry. She's the level-headed, responsible and most importantly NORMAL one. She sent presents and let Harry live there out of some weird sense of duty and/or keeping up appearances (even appearances in her own twisted little head). The crappy gift and the poor way she treated harry showed the true person she was.

 

[moviegirl11]

I thought the reason he was able to beat him was because Grindewald stole the wand from Gregorovitch, rather than won it fair and square, hence the wand never really "belonged" to him.

That explanation wouldnt make sense though because the wand worked (to its fullest power) for Dumbledore. It then went to Malfoy (who didnt realize it and never took it) and then to Harry who used it to fix its own wand.

I think it was part of the legend that the wand was unbeatable when in truth it was just an extremely powerful wand. Even at full power, an unskilled wizard could still be beaten otherwise its unlikely that the wand would've made it through centuries of being passed around.

Dumbledore said he was slightly more skilled than Grindewald. Even with the wand, Grindewald would've had to outsmart Dumbledore in a duel. He didnt so Dumbledore beat him and won the wand.

 

[disneyworldluvr349]

I am so mad at J.K. Rowling! How could she leave us hanging with so many questions about what happened in the wizarding world after Voldemort died?

The Harry/Ginny thing was so ridiculous. They didn't have a developed relationship in any of the books unless they were breaking up!

The ending seemed to "happily ever after." I think that I would have liked it better if Harry had died because I wouldn't have this need to find out what happened before the Nineteen Years Later!

I was in love with the book up until this point ... Sort of angry with her ending the series this way. My questions will never be answered. Oh well it will make for a good fan fic.....

 

[moviegirl11]

I felt much more satisfied by the ending after JKR told us what happened to them in more detail. I the end, I'm just happy that Harry got to have a family of his own and a normal life. That was the most important thing for me.

 

[Kycha]

So, what do you think Mrs. Weasley's clock now says for Fred?

 

[disneyworldluvr349]

Dead....

 

[moviegirl11]

So, what do you think Mrs. Weasley's clock now says for Fred?

Ha! I wondered that too! I suppose Fred might be off the clock now

 

[WaltD4Me]

So, what do you think Mrs. Weasley's clock now says for Fred?

Awwwwwwwwwwww

What did you go and post that for? I never thought of that.

 

[Kycha]

Sorry. But it just kinda hit me last night as I was rereading OotP. The part where Arthur Weasley is bitten by the snake in the MOM. Harry and crew are waiting at Grimmauld Place for word from Mrs. Weasley. Harry thinks that Mrs. Weasley's clock is pointed at "Mortal Peril" for Mr. Weasley. It just got me wondering about Fred.

The only problem I had with this book was the deaths of Fred, Tonks, Lupin, Moody and Hedwig. JKR made certain to send off Dobby in a very moving way and it allowed me to grieve along with Harry and the gang. But, we didn't get that with the other characters that died. She did devote a couple pages to Fred's death and the affect it had on them. But Tonks, Lupin, Moody and Hedwig barely got a paragraph.

 

[ivanova]

The only problem I had with this book was the deaths of Fred, Tonks, Lupin, Moody and Hedwig. JKR made certain to send off Dobby in a very moving way and it allowed me to grieve along with Harry and the gang. But, we didn't get that with the other characters that died. She did devote a couple pages to Fred's death and the affect it had on them. But Tonks, Lupin, Moody and Hedwig barely got a paragraph.

kinda like real life ... we don't always get the time to stop and mourn everyone we lose.

 

[MyGoofy26]

kinda like real life ... we don't always get the time to stop and mourn everyone we lose.

Exactly. I think that's what makes Dobby's so emotional, because it's pretty much the only time in the book that they can forget the world around them and just mourn. Every other time, they're in imminent danger and would be dead if they took even a moment to pause for their fallen friends. With Dobby, they were safely out of harm's way (for the time being) and could just exist in the moment to truly mourn and reflect.

 

[Ariel Wanna-be]

Lou: How did snape get into grimmauld place to get the second half of the letter, if there were protection spells on the house stopping snape getting in
J.K. Rowling: Snape entered the house immediately after Dumbledore's death, before Moody put up the spells against him.

Hmmm...when Harry is seeing all of Snape's memories in the Pensieve, he sees Snape kneeling on Sirius's floor, holding the letter. This happens *after* Snape's memory of the attack on the "seven Potters", in which Mad-Eye is killed (and therefore unable to cast any anti-Snape spells at Sirius's house).

 

[DizBelle]

Hmmm...when Harry is seeing all of Snape's memories in the Pensieve, he sees Snape kneeling on Sirius's floor, holding the letter. This happens *after* Snape's memory of the attack on the "seven Potters", in which Mad-Eye is killed (and therefore unable to cast any anti-Snape spells at Sirius's house).

Could it be that Snape didn't really kill Dumbledore either? Dumbledore engineered his own death. It was the killer of Dumbledore that couldn't enter the house, which was really Dumbledore wasn't it?

 

[Maleficent13]

Actually, I didn't think much of the protective spells at Grimmauld Place. A loud voice and a fake ghost? I wouldn't think it'd take too much to get through that.

 

[castlegazer]

I, as everyone did, LOVED THIS BOOK!!!!

I wanted to start by syaing that and saying that is is truly a gifted piece of literature. I am a ginormous fan.

BUT, and this may have been said already - I read most pages of this thread but may have missed some posts - I have two issues that keep bugging me.

1) Why the heck didn't she give Dolores Umbridge her comeupin's???? Really now, how hard would that have been to write in there and give us some satisfaction?

2) And this is the big one that is actually really bothering me; If Ginny, who is extremely skilled as a witch, was allowed to partake in being a fake Potter for the escape, why the heck was she so forceably forbidden from partaking in the greatest battle of all times. I felt so pained at watching them tell he to stay put because she was too young. Come on now!

OK, that's it for beefs from me. I loved everything else. I would have liked to have had the epilogue be a little sooner in time also, but it was very nice to have, as someone said at the beginning of this thread, a little treacle after such a hard won battle was fought in our heads.

I think Jo Rowling helped in the NBC interview, because I was dying not knowing what Harry and Ron now did - I really wanted to be sure that he had become an Auror, which I was pretty sure he had become, but she helped cement that idea in the interview.

Ah, I feel so much better sharing that. I can't talk about it at home because my husband hasn't read it yet.