OK. So here I am reviewing DH... If you are reading this and if you havent read the book yet... then you have been warned... SPOILERS AHEAD!
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Ofcourse, I loved it. JKR does manage to pull out another blockbuster.. It is one of the most fast paced books in the series. And this is one book, Im happy to say will do great as a movie... there isnt much they can cut out.. We get to see a lot of Harry, Ron and Hermione, infact the trio are together till the end.. there isn't a page to turn when the story has moved away from them. I absolutely loved the way JKR rounded up Kreachers character. There are more than a couple of deaths in the book and again... depicted very movie-like... I love Rons witty dialogues... Even Trelawney in the climax... I loved the battle at Hogwarts and all the action surrounding it.. Neville is absolutely the superstar here... His defience to the dark lords regime at Hogwarts and absolute determination to crack the system, all written down to the tee.. Dobby was simply magnificent.... The life of Dumbledore was the most shocking of all..
So, heres what I dint like..actually a lot of it I dint understand!(Yes, either JKR wrote in a language I dint recognize or I have lost the ability to comprend english!!)... The trio were playing hide and seek with the deatheaters for more than half the book..and their camping escapades were never ending... infact a little repetative...
What was the need to make Dumbledore sound like a bad guy... (yes, its her story... but its our Dumbledore now!!) He was portrayed throughout the book as a power hungry wizard who had even gambled with the dark arts "for the greater good"! All thanx to Rita keeter ofcourse.. But JKR dint really trouble Rita with it much.. infact.. its strange she got all the facts right...
Who was that one person who managed to do magic late in life under desparate circumstances, that JKR said we'll meet in DH?? I dont kno.. (I might have missed it.. but is it possible for half the people on earth to miss it?? ) EDIT: JKR says that she gave this a miss while writing the book...from the bloomsbury chat.
JKR says the book is meant to give a sense of reality to children who read them... But Harry Potter survives till the end simply due to the efforts of his pals, Ron and Hermione, Dobby, Hagrid, The order, etc.. or because he luckily escaped a lot of life threatening situations.. I mean, clearly, dumbledore couldnt have forseen that Harry would live (after facing 30 deatheaters at once...and voldemort twice!) to figure out all the clues he had left behind for Harry to find...
Next, the trio lose track in between and start looking for hallows instead of horcruxes... Ofcourse, in the end it mattered a lot that Harry found them....
I really wished it would have been Neville who avenged his parents maddened state. It would have been truly spectacular if Neville had been given the opportunity to Avada Kedavra Bellatrix. There wasnt any particular incident that prompted Molly Weasley'd anger to rage beyond recognition that she resigned to call Bella a Bit*h!
As I had hoped Snape was a good guy in the end... He saved Harry in many ways.... but all for the wrong reasons...He felt guilty for Lily's death and would have been Voldemorts right hand for real if it had'nt been for Lily! For all the reasons I imagined... it was eventually Snape who had to face Lily whenever he looked at Harry..his green eyes! Plus, I felt the character wasnt given its full due in the book... he was left to tell his story after his death... I would have liked for Snape to converse personally with Harry before he died....
But it was totally unbelievable that Ron could even 'imitate' parseltounge... So is parseltounge something we can learn?? I thot it was a very uncommon rare gift... Ofcourse, whatever it is, Parseltounge is inevitably a language..so I suppose you could learn it...
The death of Dobby was perhaps the most touching scene ever... My eyes watered over that scene...
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Ofcourse, I loved it. JKR does manage to pull out another blockbuster.. It is one of the most fast paced books in the series. And this is one book, Im happy to say will do great as a movie... there isnt much they can cut out.. We get to see a lot of Harry, Ron and Hermione, infact the trio are together till the end.. there isn't a page to turn when the story has moved away from them. I absolutely loved the way JKR rounded up Kreachers character. There are more than a couple of deaths in the book and again... depicted very movie-like... I love Rons witty dialogues... Even Trelawney in the climax... I loved the battle at Hogwarts and all the action surrounding it.. Neville is absolutely the superstar here... His defience to the dark lords regime at Hogwarts and absolute determination to crack the system, all written down to the tee.. Dobby was simply magnificent.... The life of Dumbledore was the most shocking of all..
So, heres what I dint like..actually a lot of it I dint understand!(Yes, either JKR wrote in a language I dint recognize or I have lost the ability to comprend english!!)... The trio were playing hide and seek with the deatheaters for more than half the book..and their camping escapades were never ending... infact a little repetative...
What was the need to make Dumbledore sound like a bad guy... (yes, its her story... but its our Dumbledore now!!) He was portrayed throughout the book as a power hungry wizard who had even gambled with the dark arts "for the greater good"! All thanx to Rita keeter ofcourse.. But JKR dint really trouble Rita with it much.. infact.. its strange she got all the facts right...
Who was that one person who managed to do magic late in life under desparate circumstances, that JKR said we'll meet in DH?? I dont kno.. (I might have missed it.. but is it possible for half the people on earth to miss it?? ) EDIT: JKR says that she gave this a miss while writing the book...from the bloomsbury chat.
JKR says the book is meant to give a sense of reality to children who read them... But Harry Potter survives till the end simply due to the efforts of his pals, Ron and Hermione, Dobby, Hagrid, The order, etc.. or because he luckily escaped a lot of life threatening situations.. I mean, clearly, dumbledore couldnt have forseen that Harry would live (after facing 30 deatheaters at once...and voldemort twice!) to figure out all the clues he had left behind for Harry to find...
Next, the trio lose track in between and start looking for hallows instead of horcruxes... Ofcourse, in the end it mattered a lot that Harry found them....
I really wished it would have been Neville who avenged his parents maddened state. It would have been truly spectacular if Neville had been given the opportunity to Avada Kedavra Bellatrix. There wasnt any particular incident that prompted Molly Weasley'd anger to rage beyond recognition that she resigned to call Bella a Bit*h!
As I had hoped Snape was a good guy in the end... He saved Harry in many ways.... but all for the wrong reasons...He felt guilty for Lily's death and would have been Voldemorts right hand for real if it had'nt been for Lily! For all the reasons I imagined... it was eventually Snape who had to face Lily whenever he looked at Harry..his green eyes! Plus, I felt the character wasnt given its full due in the book... he was left to tell his story after his death... I would have liked for Snape to converse personally with Harry before he died....
But it was totally unbelievable that Ron could even 'imitate' parseltounge... So is parseltounge something we can learn?? I thot it was a very uncommon rare gift... Ofcourse, whatever it is, Parseltounge is inevitably a language..so I suppose you could learn it...
The death of Dobby was perhaps the most touching scene ever... My eyes watered over that scene...
Also... a huge doubt on how the fidelius charm works... According to JKR's FAQ's in her website, this is how the charm works...
"In other words, a secret (eg, the location of a family in hiding, like the Potters) is enchanted so that it is protected by a single Keeper (in our example, Peter Pettigrew, a.k.a. Wormtail). Thenceforth nobody else – not even the subjects of the secret themselves – can divulge the secret. Even if one of the Potters had been captured, force fed Veritaserum or placed under the Imperius Curse, they would not have been able to give away the whereabouts of the other two. The only people who ever knew their precise location were those whom Wormtail had told directly, but none of them would have been able to pass on the information."
"When a Secret-Keeper dies, their secret dies with them, or, to put it another way, the status of their secret will remain as it was at the moment of their death"
But in DH we see that all those who knew the secret have turned secret keepers by default. Does that make any sense?
The epilogue was really not what I expected..cheesy even.. But you gotta let JKR have it for her simplicity... Life goes on.... All is well!!
