Trolls are not welcome. If you don’t have any interest in the Harry Potter series, please express this in your own thread. Not mine.
Just in case you didn’t read the top or didn’t catch on that the discussion of the book just might talk about things revealed in the book…here is your final warning…
WARNING!!! SPOILERS!!! IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS IN THIS BOOK, DO NOT GO ANY FURTHER!!!
That being said, this book was a little bit of a let-down after the last book. How so? Rowling, in an effort to add more personality (?) to her characters who we have read about for almost ten years, she has gotten away from the good pacing that made her other books so interesting. It’s not nearly as bad, in my opinion, as HP and the Chamber of Secrets, but it’s not as nearly as good as say, The Goblet of Fire.
SPOILERS BEGIN HERE
Okay, so now the only person who has always been suspectful of Snape, Harry has been proven right in this book by the ending. It makes you wonder, when looking back in the book how many times Snape acted in the interests of the Dark Lord. For instance, when he stopped Sirius and let Pettigrew go. Was that simply a matter of arrogance, error, and vegeance against a former tormentor or did he knowingly allow Pettigrew return to Voldemort? I don’t have my books handy, but can you think of other times, other than the ones he mentioned to Narcissa, where he was doing the bidding of Voldemort? I wonder if Harry (or someone else in the Order) will kill Snape. I was a little skeptical of him being truly converted and there were just too many times that Harry’s suspicion seemed well-founded, but after this book, knowing that he had heard the prophecy, I doubt that he had any intentions of fighting the good battle. The change in Malfoy, however, makes me wonder what Rowling has in store for him in the last book. We see him weeping because he cannot kill Dumbledore and when finally faced with the opportunity, he decides to not do it as he is not truly a murderer and therefore will not be cut out to remain a Death Eater. Does that mean he has been taken off to his death for failing to finish the job? Will he be let go and return to Hogwarts to finish his schooling?
I figured once Dumbledore began revealing everything he knew about Voldemort…in other words, passing on his knowledge onto his prodigy…that he was setting himself up for death. He alludes to Snape’s betrayal when he says that as a great mind his mistakes tend to be much greater than those of average men. I’d say getting yourself killed by someone whose evil past that, despite suspicion that he hadn’t given up his allegiance, you ignored would be one hell of a mistake to make. But then, I think losing all of his mentors and immediate family to Voldemort will only make him that much more fierce in his quest to destroy Voldemort once and for all.
Onto teenage hormones…The Ron and Hermione thing got boring after a while. Dean and Ginny sucking face also got old and Harry’s reaction although when they finally kissed, I couldn’t help but cheer for them. I think Cho’s name gets mentioned about three times in the whole book. Rowling has apparently dropped her from the storyline, perhaps to conserve space…she certainly didn’t do it to keep away from the plot of the kids mundane (non-existent) relationships which includes the nauseating vision of Malfoy with his head in Pansy Parkinson’s lap 
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I can wait for the next book. I secretly hope that someone in the triumvirate dies…preferrably Potter. While I can forgive him for dropping out of school to chase down the remaining Horcruxes, it doesn’t leave much of a future for him should he survive so why not just kill him off?
And I pointed this out to mythrandore…did anyone else pick up the easter egg/joke on page 454? I won’t spoil it too much, but I will hint that it helps if you are familiar with the movies.
