Posted by Dinah on July 25, 2007, at 19:01:55
In reply to I finished Harry Potter - minor spoiler, posted by DAisym on July 22, 2007, at 21:09:59
I think my favorite was book 4. Someone died, but no one I knew that well, and it seemed to balance depth and darkness just right for my taste.
I knew I wouldn't like 7 as much as the others with Dumbledore being gone. But I too guessed at least two things (and my only prediction was correct).
I'm not sure yet how I feel about the book as a whole. You're right about the deaths. Unlike the other books, the deaths seemed much more unremarked this time. And I thought that it got a bit slow while the characters were doing some personal growth. Although the explanations and information that came out was interesting.
I didn't really think she tarnished the hero overmuch. I never thought the hero was always who he was now, and I'm not sure he could have become who he became if he had always been perfect. It takes a lot of suffering and painful learning to gain *that* much wisdom. And imperfect as he might have been, even at the end perhaps, he was still who he was, and who I always thought he was. Nothing touched that.
I wish the epilogue had been more explicit about what happened to everyone. It still leaves me guessing a lot. :)
(Although Lemony Snicket's final book was far far more open ended, since as he explained, the end of one person's story is the beginning of another's and the middle of yet another's, so that there is really no end at all. Although he explained it far better of course.)
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