Comments on: Stop reading right now if you haven’t finished book 7

By: Cristin

Cristin — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:30:52 +0000

Oh, Mags, good call about always having choices! What’s that Dumbledore line from book 1? it’s our choices not our abilities that make us who we are?

I kind of wanted Draco to marry Pansy Parkingson or whatever the eff her name was– the one who wanted to offer Harry up to Voldemort was they were evacuating the school.

I reread the epilogue the morning after I finished it because I was so happy with how it ended, I thought it was a dream. I’m glad it’s not.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:28:49 +0000

Good points! I just wanted to add that I feel like I’m going to be defending the epilogue for the rest of my life, b/c I thought it was great. a) Harry acknowledges that Snape was the bravest man he ever knew. b) They have a nodding-hello relationship with Draco — love his ambiguity, not good, not evil, just a dude. c) Brings things full circle, back to the very beginning of the books: life goes on, kids will still go to Hogwarts, kids will still be nervous about how they’re going to be sorted, but YOU ALWAYS HAVE A CHOICE.

By: Megan

Megan — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:28:29 +0000

Amazingly, I feel almost exactly like you do about the book. I enjoyed it, especially the last hundred pages or so, but could have done without much of the earlier stuff.

By: sara

sara — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:22:47 +0000

I’m so hung up on things like years and ages that I’m still going, “Whaaaaa?!” about the fact that James and Lily had their kid at 20, and that Harry and Ginny were 24 and 23 when they started breeding. Although as Kyle points out, there are only like 500 wizards and it’s not like they go to college. Still. Ack.

I feel like this discussion on Friday is going to involve shouting.