Spoiler alert! 
I’ve just finished The Deathly Hallows and am dying to talk about it. Can’t talk to Nog cos he’s still on book 6. So please be forewarned that the comments here will be full of spoilers … do not read them if you haven’t finished the book yet. But for those of you who have read it and would like to discuss it here, feel free to do so.
And for those who want to read a couple of very good ‘non-spoiler’ reviews of the book, check out the ones at Archies Archive and at The Singing Librarian.
I’ll never forgive JKR for letting Snapey die of a snake bite!
Blasphemy! at least.
Snapes are best enjoyed in a dungeon…
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The first thing I want to say is that I feel totally vindicated for always believing in Snape. I just knew he wasn’t the Bad Guy he was made out to be. Okay, maybe that was obvious to a lot of people, that he was made out to be the Bad Guy way over the top too much for him not to come out good in the end.
Was it really that obvious? Am I the only one?
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I was also disappointed that he died that way, dq, but just because it felt a bit anti-climactic … I thought he deserved a more heroic death than that.
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Snapey was the only worthwhile character in the whole series. (insert drool smiley here) He was complex, had both good and bad sides and I was sure from the beginning that he was the Man to Sort Things Out.
But I don’t like the way he was made a lovesick puppy in the end.
I somehow had the feeling that Dumbledore was too good to be true. All in all it seems to me as Potty Harre VII was written in haste. Polyjuice me here and polyjuice me there.
But, after all, there still are a lot of not all that bad Snape Slash to be read out there… (insert evilgrin smiley here)
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Agree about too much Polyjuice! It was getting more than somewhat tedious.
“But I don’t like the way he was made a lovesick puppy in the end.”
I don’t think that was the case, dq. I think he was shown as someone who grew up never being loved so when he found someone he loved and admired he probably went a bit OTT about it, but no, not in a lovesick puppy way. At least, that’s not how I saw it.
I also thought he was desperate for a father figure, which Dumbledore became to him. Hence his bitterness about being asked to do so many difficult things but not being trusted with all the information.
The only real surprise in book 7 was what a shit Dumbledore turned out to be. Sure he was ‘redeemed’ in the last couple of chapters, but as Harry kept saying … “He was OUR AGE when he chose to believe in those things!”
Serious Nazi connotations there, or what?
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Well, guess I’ll just wait for Nog to finish and talk about it with him (he’s half-way through book 7 now).
I don’t think he suspects that Snape turns out to be a ‘good guy’.
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Well, the battle scenes were tedious, and the death of Voldemort somehow anti-climactic… but I actually liked the fact that the Dumbledore and Snape characters were more complex, and that some of the stuff going on “behind the scenes” was almost LeCarré-like.
Some parts of it did seem to have been written in haste, or possibly she lost interest.
Good in parts
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