My Nose in The Book

I finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at 10 minutes to midnight Sunday night (If you have not please stop now and come back when you have). I feel like I raced through the book so I have already started to give it another go, albeit a slower one this time. Overall, I was happy with the book. It tied up a lot of loose ends left dangling through the seven books. There are some detailed questions that I have but nothing on a grand scale was really left out. I have a mind to start over from the beginning and see the trail of breadcrumbs in their entirety while it is all so fresh.

Last week while dining with friends we were discussing theories about the end and my theory was: Harry is a horcrux so Harry has to die but I think he'll live in the end, at least I hope he does. This whole series dealing with good v. evil cannot end with evil prevailing. I was surprised to find out that my views were both right, not so contradictory as I had earlier believed. When Harry was walking into the forest, accepting it was time for him to die, I told myself that was it and shed some tears. I was pleasantly surprised when he was allowed to come back and was not surprised at all then how it ended, given the second chance.

I was a Harry/Ginny and Ron/Hermoine shipper. They have both been foreshadowed for quite some time though I can understand the Harry/Hermoine shippers. I had to laugh at Harry & Ginny's child Albus Severus and figured that maybe James' middle was Sirius. I thought in the lot somewhere there had to be a child named after Fred, but if George had a son that would be an obvious choice above all others involved. And Draco's Scorpious, that was the biggest laugh of all.

I have not been happy with my favorite fan site, Mugglenet, not saying something about the book in print. They've let their readers do it, and reading a ton of comments saying a lot of the same thing has gotten tiresome. They have their, I'm sure, lovely podcast but as I only have dial up and no ipod (yes I'm frighteningly not tech savvy) I have no idea what was said. I've talked to one friend about it but no others. I know one hasn't even begun it yet. My husband put off reading with me the series over the winter and has barely began the first one (but has seen the movies) so he also doesn't want to know anything so I have to be silent at home too. If someone out there has read it, get a hold of me so we can talk. If you haven't read a page of the series, get thee to a library or bookstore!