Haaaaarryy Potter and the DEAAAATHLYYYY HOLLOWWWWWSSSSSSESSSSS
2007-07-28 at 12:31 p.m.
It's just started raining really heavily, and i do so love it when it rain in hall. and the good thing about living here is that i no longer have to rush to close the windows when it rains. i've discovered that no matter how big the rain is, the window panes hardly even get splattered, so, my room is safe.
on a new note, i've finally finished reading Harry Potter 7. warning: spoilers ahead, but in any case i don't think i'll be spoiling anyone, since everyone i know has already read the book.
I think the title is damn bloody stupid, both because of the less-than-appropriate use of the word "hallows", and because the deathly hallows don't really play that central a role in the whole book. on the whole, i agree with jint that it wasn't as bad as people have made it out to be—after all, what could be worse than the snarling, sniffing monster from book 6, right? the action really was pretty good, even though i thought that certain parts were rather draggy. the 'chase' scene when they're moving harry was pretty good, although a little more chaotic than she usually writes.
i rather liked the way she dealt with draco. although it does seem rather cliched, to have him turn out to be too good to be really evil, even though he wants to, the way she wrote it, it fit. so, all in all, i think it was a good decision. like i've said, you can pretty much write anything you want, as long as you write it convincingly. at the end of book 6, it was almost a done deal that draco was going to turn out good in the end, but he really could have gone either way, so it was all up to how she moved things in the next book.
BUT, i hated that fred died. AND mr. weasley. AND tonks and lupin. like, jeez. what's with the overkill, man? that was very wrong. and the whole "the true master of the elder wand is draco malfoy" thing, i thought fell very, very flat. when i read that sentence i just stared at it for a moment then started giggling.
the snape thing, though, turned out to be quite an interesting turn of events. i know i've said that snape should have just been bad, because, a) he's so good at it, and b) it would be so and-then-i-woke-up if he had turned good, but again, it was the way she made it happen that was good. the way she wrote it, snape was a good guy, and yet, it was completely understandable why he was so bitchy and evil to harry, and it didn't contradict the earlier 'revelations' about h's father and godfather. also, i thought the whole lilly-snape thing was good. snape as a little boy—all of them as little kids, really, was quite cute.
i also liked the moments of insane humour in the book, although some of them came at rather weird places. or maybe it's just me. i dunno bout all of you, but i giggled like mad whenever grawp shouted "HAGGER!!" hahaa. even now i'm sorta cracking up.
on the pairings, though, i must say i disagree with eeling. i don't think there were many harry-hermione moments, although i think i know the parts she liked. when it comes to relationships, i suppose, it's always easy to read into things more than we should. but in any case, i do think the 'development' of the human aspect was done much more exhaustively in this book, than in book 6.
the ending, though, i thought was utter rubbish. she should really not have added that ridiculous epilogue. i mean, there were more horrible cliches in those 6 pages than anyone should ever have in a book, for crying out loud. naming his kid after his father, ok. after his mother too?? and then after dumbledore AND snape too??? jeez, talk about overkill, man. and can you imagine calling your kid 'albus'? like, dots. firstly, what kind of horrible name is that to saddle your kid with? and then factor in the fact that you are supposed to call your kid the name of your ex-principal. AND the fact that they all got married? i mean, again, jeez. it just doesn't fit.
but all in all, i guess i'm glad it's all over. this marks an end to the whole jkr-rocks phase that half the world has been caught up in, and for that, i am truly glad.