Please don't read this if you don't want to know what happens in _The Deathly Hallows_.
I really wasn't going to buy the last of the installments from the HP chronicles. I was going to wait until all the hype had passed and borrow it from the library. That plan failed miserably with the appearance of a couple of owls outside of the local book shop. THEY MADE ME BUY IT. Clever little things.
I must admit, and please don't think me heathen for saying this, but I've never been impressed with JKR's writing style. But I was pleasantly surprised by this offering of Potter-ness. Mind you, after six other novels the chances were probably in favour of improvement. And you know what? I really enjoyed it. I'm quite prepared to read it again.
I was hooked from the moment I started reading and highly disappointed when real life got in the way. There are two points I'd like to have not experienced. One: Dobby. Poor, poor Dobby. His appearance is all too brief and all too fatal. Two: It's a shame about the last chapter. I don't want to know what happens to the protagonists nineteen years later, I want to make my own endings for them. I had Harry all set for a nervous breakdown before going on a crime spree and turning to crack, finally ending up in St. Mungo's for a stint in rehab, and possibly growing old in Azkahban. I'm not even going to reveal what I had planned for Ron and Hermione.
Still, I've just got enough time before bed to start on the first couple of chapters again.
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Unlike you, I loved the rest of the book. But I'm quite willing to happily rip that epilogue from the book and pretend it never existed.
Maybe that was the ending she already wrote 7 years ago? If so, it would explain why it really doesn't gel with the rest.
I think perhaps you have had to much crack and should go off to rehab to.
Whitewater- i think i've od'd on night nurse.
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