Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows *Spoilers*

<p>Gosh! Snape’s story was so poignant. In my sense, he’s the best character she created.
Neville was pretty brave. The last Voldy-Potter dialogue was great.</p>

<p>And I think Albus Severus went to Slytherins… :stuck_out_tongue: … who’s with me?</p>

<p>I always wished that Snape would just break out in song during a Potions class. Kind of a random thought… just putting it out there. :)</p>

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<p>Not me…Harry told him the secret…so he picked gryffindor</p>

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Not to worry - it can’t be too long before “Harry Potter - the Musical”.</p>

<p>OMG!
I am laughing really hard right now because you’re probably right. :|</p>

<p>i would TOTALLY see the musical :D</p>

<p>A musical? It’ll probably happen at the theme park.</p>

<p>this was definatly one of the best in the series…
even though i hate harry/ginny (the ending made me want to puke…gah)
Ginny is incredibly annoying. </p>

<p>anyway, i loved all the action sequences in the book and this book was a lot funnier than the others in my opinion. there were some parts that i burst out laughing. J.K. rowling is an amazing writer!</p>

<p>After Dumbledore asks Snape if he cares about Harry at all, Snape conjured a patronus, and it is then revealed that his patronus takes the same form as that of Lily. Most people seem to think that Snape is making a point to Dumbledore at the time, that he doesn’t actually care about Harry at all, and he’s only protecting Potter for Lily’s sake. </p>

<p>While the form that a patronus takes is important (in this case, Snape’s resembles his love [almost obsession] towards Lily), a caster ‘must tap into, and draw out, the positive emotions that will make up the Patronus’. Could the fact that Snape is able to conjure a patronus when being asked about Harry mean that his happy thought is indeed Harry, and he indeed cares about him? I certainly think so, even though the way Rowling wrote that part was really ambiguous that it could be interpreted both ways.</p>

<p>asbereth, I do believe that Snape and Lily would have to have similar “positive emotions” to produce the same patronus</p>

<p>I believe that when Lily conjured her patronus, she would think about either Harry or James (probably Harry at the time of her death, because of how new he was), and for Snape to reproduce Lily’s emotional state, he would have to think fondly about Harry.</p>

<p>Very good theory. This just adds to my positive feelings toward Snape as a character. He was definitely my favorite character even throughout books 5-7.</p>

<p>I was so ****ed when Dobby died. I wanted to kick someone.</p>

<p>Ginny must be extremely happy that she didn’t get to name any of her children.</p>

<p>“I believe that when Lily conjured her patronus, she would think about either Harry or James (probably Harry at the time of her death, because of how new he was), and for Snape to reproduce Lily’s emotional state, he would have to think fondly about Harry.”</p>

<p>I see what you’re saying. And it does make sense that both (Snape and Lily) must be thinking about the same positive emotions when conjuring up the same patronus, even though it gives rise to a very disturbing theory that Snape is thinking about James positively when he conjures his patronus (because there is a possibility that Lily’s happy though was James…).</p>

<p>Tufts, Dobby was a huge deus ex machina. I thought it was stupid that he could pop anywhere and save anyone if he knew where they were. It was necessary for him to die.</p>

<p>Favorite book in the series and probably the best I’ve read in my life. :slight_smile: :slight_smile: In my opinion Voldemort was probably my favorite character. I mean, even though he was violent (and at times insane/psychotic) he made some really good judgements which would have been for the “greater good”. Like, first off, dissolving the houses (even though it didn’t go into practice). I think sorting people into houses was pretty stupid in itself. It breeded rivalry, hatred, etc. Also, most people have attributes that all the houses support. Let’s take the big guy Voldemort for instance. Obviously he was like Slytherin, that’s self explanatory. But he valued courage like Gryffindor, had a thirst for knowledge like Ravenclaw, and demanded loyalty like Hufflepuff. Also, to be honest, he was pretty merciful in that he didn’t decide to kill everyone who stood up to him in that final battle. He showed he truly did value magical advancement (he recognized the prowess of his opponents). Any other thoughts?</p>

<p>^ other thoughts? </p>

<p>Yeah… Voldemort scared the bejeezus out of me.</p>

<p>I thought Voldemort was really different in this book. Maybe because he talked more in the first chapter than he did in all of the other books combined, and we actually saw him very often. But he seemed a lot more human and a lot less scary. That was probably intentional, though. That’s the change Harry had to see, after all.</p>

<p>And Dobby was not a deus ex machina (if anything Hermione’s never-ending bag and Dumbledore’s side story was). JK Rowling made it clear that house elves could apparate anywhere. They did it a million times inside Hogwarts, which is supposed to be impossible. She also showed that Voldemort underestimated house elves, which is why Kreacher was able to retrieve the locket Horcrux and why there were no house elf charms set up in the Malfoys’ dungeon.</p>

<p>My one question I feel J.K. didn’t explain: </p>

<p>How in hell did James ever make Lily fall in love with him if Lily always thought he was so arrogant? Never explained.</p>

<p>I’m sure J.K. Rowling knew how Lily and James fell in love. She touched on the topic in the fifth book, so it definitely crossed her mind. While it seems she left out a lot of stuff that she should have explained, I think she left this one out on purpose. It sounds corny, but maybe it’s a parallel of the locked room of love in the Department of Mysteries. Death, time, and thought were all open to Harry and his friends, but love completely denied them entrance. It was the most mysterious of any of the rooms in the department. Just as they couldn’t see the inside, sometimes we can’t see the reasons people fall in love.</p>