SPOILERS - Harry Potter -Deathly Hallows

[johnnysauntie]

Major props to HokkaidoHelen, who (of all those who guessed) really came close on most of her predictions for the book!




Re: Harry Potter #7 - let's guess
« Reply #6 on Jul 11, 2007, 7:56pm »

We will find out something "incredibly important" about Lily Potter, and that would be ….?

That she is the most powerful wizard in the universe! heh... or she's related to someone not very nice on the baddies' side


R.A.B's identity will be revealed. Who is it?

Yep, gotta agree that it's Regulus black.


We will learn with whom Snape's loyalties lie, which are with …?

Team Dumbledore! He'll turn out to be the most loyal person to Dumbledore and will ultimately protect Harry


Something will be revealed about Petunia Dursley, although we already know that she is not a Squib….wonder what this could be?

She's a full-fledged witch, but for some reason is hiding the fact. Maybe she had a traumatic event in her past.

The fact that Harry "has his mother's eyes" will prove to be an important plot point, namely …..?

Oooh...hmmm...maybe he does "have" his mother's eyes, as in they're the last horcrux, but I'm betting on his scar being the last horcrux and he'll have to lose his powers as a wizard to do in Voldemort and seal the last remaining part of his soul in his scar.


At least one character will die, and that unfortunate soul is …..?
Voldemort! :-= well, maybe not if the last bit of him is sealed in Harry's scar. Then, they'd both eventually die when Harry passes away.

[brooks]

I didn't expect to cry as much as I did, when Dobby died it was tooo much for me.

And then when Tonks and Lupin

The end I thought was brilliant, and the fact that Harry finally finds his confidence.

I loved the story and will reread it may times.

[Allison -]

I was really sorry to have had so many die! I was so sad when Hedwig and Dobby died. I thought it was very appropriate that Harry took care of Dobby and Mad Eye the way he did. Fred Tonks and Lupin....oh.... ( I really almost thought that Hermione was done for when she was torchered at Malfoy Manor.

What did you think about them saving Draco so many times? And the wand?!

[johnnysauntie]

I exploded in "bogey" (as they call them at Hogwarts) and tears while Harry was taking a trip down Snape's memory lane. Went straight over the edge.

[ManeTamer]

johnnysauntie said:

I exploded in "bogey" (as they call them at Hogwarts) and tears while Harry was taking a trip down Snape's memory lane. Went straight over the edge.

That really got me too- snape being all nice to little Lily- I teared up in the very first memory scene.

That and Dobby's burial... wow.

Such a good book- and I was right about having seen The Locket before- I knew it was important before even finding out about the horcruxes in 6... I actually yelled at the book "it's in grimmauld place!" LOL

(that's about all I could claim as far as smarts- I was hoping regulus black was actually still alive and would be revealed so he could help Harry)

[elizabeth_h]

Before I got the book I was thinking how great it would be if Rowling would later write the story of Dumbledore, since he seemed to have had an adventure-filled life that we knew little about. Well, I guess I got that wish! The book was better than I even expected - I found it thrilling and touching.

I did expect to have something further happen with the Dursleys and Petunia in particular, so to me that did not quite seem resolved. I was very happy to see how Neville developed though! And I had to laugh as Aberforth was revealed to be the bar keeper at the Hog's Head, as I had suspected since book 5. I have to give it another read though...the whole ending was kinda confusing. The only thing I did not like so much was the lengthy period when they are camping and bickering a lot...I felt like something was supposed to develop there that did not. I also found it strange that Ron and Hermione were in a tent together for months and months and never developed a physical relationship. I mean, these are teenagers after all!

[Bara]

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear ..

SO - who was the flayed child under the seat at Kings Cross? Voldemart's soul???

HOW do you fill in the gaps between the denouement and the happy families nearly 20 years later???

She'll do it!

I'm gutted. GUTTED. That the highly publicised deaths were Dobby and Fred (George?) Tom Riddle is NOT gone .....

[johnnysauntie]

Yes, I think it was Voldemort's soul. And I think that he is officially deader than a doornail.

Brooks, what think you?

[brooks]

Yep, I agree!

And Voldemort is deader then dead!!! Otherwise Harry's scar would be painful.

[Goalie]

Okay now I'm really curious, if you girls could write the ending..... how would you write it?? hmmm...... enquiring minds want to know.

[Bara]

Tom Riddle will rise ...

No, Yvette - read the book!

[brooks]

bara said:

Tom Riddle will rise ...

No, Yvette - read the book!

Yvette She's not even in this thread!! You've been packing too many boxes, you need to rest.


Terrie, I really couldn't rewrite it in any other words then she did. It's about so many things good vs. evil, loyalty, friendships, believing in something, choices we have to make and mostly about how we face death.

Harry learns that he must die to kill all of the souls that Voldemort has created so he'd be immortal. Harry is one of those bits of soul. I cried all through this part of the book, what understanding at last he came to, he must die.

Get yourself a copy and get reading girl, I refuse to give it away ;D

[Bara]

Sigh. I know she's not. She commented elsewhere.

Boxes, boxes, boxes ... Zzzzzz

[niaru]

I had to wait for my 11 yo to finish it (which took no time at all, what else can you do on a plane, lol) before I could read it, and it's by far my favourite book in the series! Action and emotion packed, tying all loose ends, very, very well done. Didn't make me cry, but it did make my daughter whimper, when reading how Hedwig and Dobby died. She was really good at not telling me ANYTHING all the while I was reading the book tho, good girl!
Now I have to go see the movie. I refused to go see it dubbed in French (the horrors!) although my kids did.

[corgi]

I read it all day yesterday, it was great! Totally worth the weight.

SO - who was the flayed child under the seat at Kings Cross? Voldemart's soul???

Yep, that was my take.

And - I took "His scar didn't hurt for 19 years" to basically leave a crack in the door open for Riddle's return, just as I think Riddle's chance at remorse at the end might lay the foundation for a more complex character in the future... afterall, Dumbledore turned out to be more complex.

Did she write where Teddie (Tonks' and Lupin's child) was living during the 19 years? I was reading so fast I kind of glossed it over.