Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

durinsbane2244 · 07-21-2007, 04:52 PM

I'm not saying anything for a while, in spoiler or not, so don't worry.

Anyone else finished yet?

***Rían*** · 07-21-2007, 07:22 PM

oh, come on, give us a summary! *pleading look*

mighty_half-elf · 07-21-2007, 08:28 PM

I got my book at about 12:20 AM and started readin...I finished around 4 o'clock this afternoon..of course i was takin breaks every now and then cause my dad needed my help, but i'm pretty sure if i had read without stopping i could've finished around lunchtime or earlier

durinsbane2244 · 07-21-2007, 08:39 PM

as to you, Rian, it's against every moral principle in my body.

and as to the mighty-half elf, i got mine and got home around 1:10 (lines

) and finished around 9:47. very good read.

inked · 07-21-2007, 08:42 PM

Finished.

cee2lee2 · 07-21-2007, 09:15 PM

Mine came mid-morning and I finished about half an hour ago. And I'm sayn' nuttin'.

***Rían*** · 07-21-2007, 09:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by durinsbane2244

as to you, Rian, it's against every moral principle in my body.

Why? I'll pick it up eventually at the library, and I've already read about it in some blogs. I just want to hear what Mooters think.

durinsbane2244 · 07-21-2007, 10:18 PM

oh, do you want an opinion/review? you said summary! i wasn't going to tell anything...i thought it was good. it was a very clever way of tying together everything she said about the "love" business without being corny.

***Rían*** · 07-21-2007, 10:32 PM

When I said "summary", I hadn't read the blogs yet.

Review, summary, either or both

I'd like to know what you guys think of it, and I don't mind knowing how it came out. I'd like to know more about Snape.

durinsbane2244 · 07-21-2007, 10:43 PM

when you say "know", you mean tell you everything? or just give you a general what-happens-thingy?

Mercutio · 07-21-2007, 11:33 PM

Finished, and heartily enjoyed

P.S. I thought the last sentence or two was a little corny, but I don't know how else she could've ended it

It'll be interesting to see the movie in a few years.

***Rían*** · 07-22-2007, 12:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by durinsbane2244

when you say "know", you mean tell you everything? or just give you a general what-happens-thingy?

Either is fine - the former only if people here don't mind, and you use spoilers. Or just say "I liked such-and-such" and "I didn't like so-and-so" - anything you like

sun-star · 07-22-2007, 10:05 AM

I loved it! Not so much the last couple of chapters - I still really dislike Snape and I didn't actually understand the ending. The epilogue was cute though

***HOBBIT*** · 07-22-2007, 09:44 PM

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a little annoying how no hint is given to harry or any of theirs future professions.

the whole wand ownership thing was a little shakey...... harry hadn't taken the elder want from Draco.

tolkienfan · 07-22-2007, 10:28 PM

I finished long ago but haven't been able to get to Entmoot until now. I liked it,

but I think more of it should have been at Hogwarts. I mean they were barely there at all! I sort of wish that J.K. Rowling hadn't decided to make the later books quite so dark and serious.

Ireth · 07-23-2007, 10:40 AM

Finished it last saturday and I loved it! Its very well written. Though I found the ending rather soft.

Willow Oran · 07-30-2007, 03:06 AM

I was dissapointed. As the last book in the series she really ought to have used the page space more carefully and wirtten it stronger.
It focused too narrowly on the three main characters, you end up with very little idea of what everybody else is doing back at the school/ministry/wherever.
The whole wand business is full of plotholes and completely clashes with everything she has previously said about wands.
The Deathly Hallows don't actually have that much to do with any of the rest of the story.
And the epilogue is predictable, sappy, uninformative and does nothing to effectively end the story that the books were telling, at best it reads like the beginning of a new series which we know there won't be.

It was entertaining, and will probably be quite good as a movie a few years from now, but as a book it's kind of mediocre.

sisterandcousinandaunt · 07-30-2007, 07:16 PM

ITA with Willow Oran. After doing the whole series, I thought I had reasonably low expectations, but...

As a writer she cheats cheats cheats. It's annoying.

Unicorn_Princess · 07-31-2007, 05:51 PM

oh. there will probably be a new series. once she misses writing and her income starts to dwindle, give it about 10 or 15 years, there'll be a new series.

durinsbane2244 · 07-31-2007, 09:11 PM

yes, i believe she "didn't disagree" that there would be more writings about other things in the HP world.

07-21-2007, 04:52 PM	#1
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows I'm not saying anything for a while, in spoiler or not, so don't worry. Anyone else finished yet? __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

07-21-2007, 07:22 PM	#2
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	oh, come on, give us a summary! pleading look __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

07-21-2007, 08:28 PM	#3
mighty_half-elf Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Dunedain Camp, West of Angmar, Middle Earth Posts: 118	I got my book at about 12:20 AM and started readin...I finished around 4 o'clock this afternoon..of course i was takin breaks every now and then cause my dad needed my help, but i'm pretty sure if i had read without stopping i could've finished around lunchtime or earlier __________________ Mighty Half-Elf Cheif Ranger of the Northern Dunedain Tribe From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king. The Riddle of Strider Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

07-21-2007, 08:39 PM	#4
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	as to you, Rian, it's against every moral principle in my body. and as to the mighty-half elf, i got mine and got home around 1:10 (lines ) and finished around 9:47. very good read. __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

07-21-2007, 08:42 PM	#5
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Finished. __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

07-21-2007, 09:15 PM	#6
cee2lee2 Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 2nd star to the left..... Posts: 566	Mine came mid-morning and I finished about half an hour ago. And I'm sayn' nuttin'.

07-21-2007, 10:18 PM	#8
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	oh, do you want an opinion/review? you said summary! i wasn't going to tell anything...i thought it was good. it was a very clever way of tying together everything she said about the "love" business without being corny. __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

07-21-2007, 10:32 PM	#9
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	When I said "summary", I hadn't read the blogs yet. Review, summary, either or both I'd like to know what you guys think of it, and I don't mind knowing how it came out. I'd like to know more about Snape. __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

07-21-2007, 10:43 PM	#10
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	when you say "know", you mean tell you everything? or just give you a general what-happens-thingy? __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

07-21-2007, 11:33 PM	#11
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	Finished, and heartily enjoyed P.S. I thought the last sentence or two was a little corny, but I don't know how else she could've ended it It'll be interesting to see the movie in a few years. __________________ Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?". Interested in C.S. Lewis? Visit the forum dedicated to one of Tolkien's greatest contemporaries. Last edited by Mercutio : 07-21-2007 at 11:34 PM.

07-22-2007, 10:05 AM	#13
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I loved it! Not so much the last couple of chapters - I still really dislike Snape and I didn't actually understand the ending. The epilogue was cute though __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

07-23-2007, 10:40 AM	#16
Ireth Elven Warrior Join Date: May 2006 Location: India Posts: 193	Finished it last saturday and I loved it! Its very well written. Though I found the ending rather soft. __________________ The sun be warm and kind to you. The darkest night a star shines through. The dullest morn a radiance brew. And where dusk comes, God's hand to you.

07-30-2007, 03:06 AM	#17
Willow Oran Deus Ex Machina Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Seattle Posts: 1,951	I was dissapointed. As the last book in the series she really ought to have used the page space more carefully and wirtten it stronger. It focused too narrowly on the three main characters, you end up with very little idea of what everybody else is doing back at the school/ministry/wherever. The whole wand business is full of plotholes and completely clashes with everything she has previously said about wands. The Deathly Hallows don't actually have that much to do with any of the rest of the story. And the epilogue is predictable, sappy, uninformative and does nothing to effectively end the story that the books were telling, at best it reads like the beginning of a new series which we know there won't be. It was entertaining, and will probably be quite good as a movie a few years from now, but as a book it's kind of mediocre. __________________ "5. Plain Rings with RUNES on the inside. Avoid these like the PLAGUE. -Diana Wynne Jones Tough Guide To FantasyLand ...it's not much of a show if somebody doesn't suffer, and preferably at length. Suffering is beautiful in any case, and so is anguish; but as for loathing, and bitterness... I don't think they belong on the stage at all. - Isabella, I Gelosi

07-30-2007, 07:16 PM	#18
sisterandcousinandaunt Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 4,535	ITA with Willow Oran. After doing the whole series, I thought I had reasonably low expectations, but... As a writer she cheats cheats cheats. It's annoying. __________________ That would be the swirling vortex to another world. Cool. I want one. TMNT No, I'm not emo. I just have a really poor sense of direction. (Thanks to katya for this quote) This is the best news story EVER! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26087293/ “Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint.”...John McCain "I shall go back. And I shall find that therapist. And I shall whack her upside her head with my blanket full of rocks." ...Louisa May

07-31-2007, 05:51 PM	#19
Unicorn_Princess Sapling Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: In a stupid small town in Southern Illinois Posts: 3	oh. there will probably be a new series. once she misses writing and her income starts to dwindle, give it about 10 or 15 years, there'll be a new series.

07-31-2007, 09:11 PM	#20
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	yes, i believe she "didn't disagree" that there would be more writings about other things in the HP world. __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...