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I was a bit surprised at how the relationships were played. A major character dying at the end would have out-heroed Harry (again), and after Dumbledore and Sirius bought it in the last two books it would have looked like quota-filling anyway. I don't really see any problems with only middle-tier characters dying in this one. Nothing was particularly surprising, plot-wise and there was far too much 'tell rather than show', especially at the end, but that's a par for the course.

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It was entertaining, and it tied up the series nicely. That being said, the epilogue seemed to me to doom 19 years to nothing much happening, and passed up the opportunity for providing a place to deal with the short term results of the Order's victory, wrap up some of the minor characters a bit, especially those supporting voldy and to leave the characters as new adults, going forward into a future with a strong direction and open opportunities, instead of going forward with complete and utter certainty that their choices from hogwarts are the sum total of their destiny. I also recognise the opportunity for a 'circle of life' type moment. I realise that in the potterverse, Hogwarts is the defining time in a persons life. I think that the epilogue was the biggest swing and a miss of the whole book.

My biggest motiviation for reading the book as quickly as I could is that I wanted to read that review, and didn't want to be reading spoilers.

#10 ::: michael ::: (view all by) ::: July 22, 2007, 03:43 AM:Р вЂќР вЂћh, someone else read the mightygodking review.

I felt very strongly that she wrote this book specifically to close the door on fandom- not in any sort of a meanspirited way, but this book does feel- preplanned plot or no- like a deliberate attempt to close the door. I don't know what to say about Snape's death he shaped his own life so relentlessly, I really thought that his end would follow suit- his choosing to break an Unbreakable Vow to Voldemort, or some such. While I enjoyed a lot of it (Grindelwald backstory! Dobby represents! Neville the Barbarian!), we're definitely in the land of Harry Potter and the Land of Enforced Heteronormativity, where you're damned well either married or dead (or both.) (Neville, McGonagall, and Hagrid- and a few students, obviously- are the only exceptions among major characters that I can think of.) She works so hard at bowtie-ing so many plott and character arcs, most of the plot twists and deaths don't have anything like proper weight (Lupin's marriage and his death occur offstage? Does she stick pins into a Lupin voodoo doll at night?)- although when she does work a scene up properly (Dobby), it can be incredibly wrenching.

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