Very nice!

Oooh! Sevelle, you already have the book you lucky boy!!!

I forgot that when I made plans to go to the release, I also had to get my driver's license renewed. I was already in costume, mind you. Ahahaha! This is priceless, for the next 4 years, I will be...

Great Frosty, you make a perfect Hermione. I'll get my book this afternoon when I get to work. I'm making it my first thing to buy before I actually start working. It's about five hu\ours to go for me. *feeling eager to read it*

There was a HP midnight party going on at the Barnes and Noble 10 minutes away from where I live.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to go thanks to an upcoming midterm :/

Ah well, c'est la vie

He's right, you know. But I'd better leave, because I haven't gone to buy the book yet. I hate working weekend swing-shift sometimes.

Oh yeah, one last important thing I learned from all the hardcore fans in line, was that if you are like me, a fan of the Harry/Hermoine pairing, it's called HARMONY!!!                       
                                                                    
                                                                                                                     
 
                                                                                       

Lady Nilamarthiel wrote:

Thanks!
If she were to forget, some children would cry and and say, "OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY KILLED HARRY/RON/HERMIONE/HAGRID/FRED/GEORGE/LUPIN/SNAPE/DOBBY I HATE THIS BOOK I'M SCARRED FOR LIIIIIIFE," and she doesn't want that. She wants her fans of all ages to enjoy it to the very end. She already killed Dumbledore and Sirius, she'll only probably will kill a minor character on the good side (or possibly Tonks, which would make Remus freak out) for those older readers, but keep the younger readers happy with the Good Always Prevails ending.

God were you wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.

You just learned about Harmony! You're lucky. They've been fapping on and on forever! There is even a special section of Fandom Wank just for Harmony because because were getting so sick of it.

Was second in line to buy my copy, Just finished it at about 6:30.


I'm gonna miss it

I just finished the book! Wow!

Yeah, have to think about the book. Ashame it had to end!

alexielnet wrote:

Lady Nilamarthiel wrote:

Thanks!
If she were to forget, some children would cry and and say, "OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY KILLED HARRY/RON/HERMIONE/HAGRID/FRED/GEORGE/LUPIN/SNAPE/DOBBY I HATE THIS BOOK I'M SCARRED FOR LIIIIIIFE," and she doesn't want that. She wants her fans of all ages to enjoy it to the very end. She already killed Dumbledore and Sirius, she'll only probably will kill a minor character on the good side (or possibly Tonks, which would make Remus freak out) for those older readers, but keep the younger readers happy with the Good Always Prevails ending.

God were you wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.

I was only half-wrong, actually. I really, really enjoyed this book, even though a lot of people died. I wasn't really torn up about it, and I don't really think a lot of people will be. There was only one character that died that I cried for. :|

<spoiler> It was Snape. I knew it was coming -- him dying a tragic hero -- but they way she did it made me bawl. ;.; </spoiler>

I've followed this story since I was a teenager, and here are my final thoughts, about the ending...

SPOILER'S ABOUT EVERY SECRET, DO NOT HIGHLIGHT UNLESS YOU HAVE ALREADY READ


A note about the death's of characters, did anyone get the feeling JK was having a little fun with us during the beginning of the book, like 500 pages worth? EVERYONE was having close calls! I was gripping the book over Hagrid (one of my personal favs).. then, you wondered over the deaths, if they really counted or not into Rowling's "two main characters will die" confession.

I really thought McGonagall was going to take over as Headmaster. (I loved the part when Harry takes the risk of being exposed to defend her) When Snape didn't get alot of action in the first 600 or so pages, I was beginning to wonder if JK was pulling a stunt - she usually makes us wait for the ending to reveal all schemes, but this was getting terrifying waiting to see if he would really be off the hook.

So the most gripping element of the book for me, was of course, the revealing Snape chapter - where we see his humanity shine though after all the many books and adventures of being so misunderstood, he was redeemed! I did not cry, as when Dumbledore died, but when watching Snape's memories - I realized the significance of Snape telling Harry "look...at..me" and I reread that part, with the new information that he wanted to look into those familiar eyes one last time. OHGOD!!!! ;_______;

It was so awesome to see Rowling write exactly the words that fans have been screeching since the last book was over, the EXACT same sentence: Dumbledore was pleading for Snape to kill him because he wanted to protect Draco Malfoy from becoming a murderer. I was like, “GO FANS, you understand your author. I wish I could understand Ikuhara!” XD

When I read that the last bit of Horacrux was within Harry, I nearly FAINTED. I was so horrified that I had misjudged Dumbledore so wrongly, and he was really this unfeeling bastard shipping Harry off to slaughter...

of course, that was taken care of rather quickly. Once I reached that part of the book, I no longer took any more reading breaks - it was ALL spend staring at the pages. I like the way Dumbledore was the most forthcoming with Harry during that period of revelation, between life and death, but I wish that Dumbledore would have explicitly told Harry he loved him...which was a fear that had been eating away at Harry, that he didn't KNOW if Dumbledore really loved him or not. Dumbledore's willingness to tell him every bit of the truth, was the equivalent to confirming his love for Harry - as that is what made Harry doubt him, the half-truths. It was a perfect way to reunite with Dumbledore and still have his character remain dead.

All in all there was more ACTION than characterization in this last book, though Ron & Hermione’s fighting was hilarious. She shrills, "Broken fingernails, Harry! That really puts our sufferings into perspective!" Dobby's last stand was really touching "reflecting the stars in his eyes that he could no longer see". ;__; Oh, oh, and the really fun part I noticed, speaking of Harry/Draco slash - there's the scene where Draco's riding on the back of Harry's broomstick. I thought to myself *DAMN* Ahahaha! Gonna be nice fodder for fanfiction. Although the ending of the book really crushed my HARMONY hopes, I thought it was a nice touch to have the one son Albus also share the name of Snape. SO touching!

I wonder what fan reaction is going to be about the last chapter... It was a nice touch, because the ending of the book was just action, Action, ACTION, and then boom - over! I kind of wanted to see some reactions from the rest of the cast, the ones who would not really be there in the last chapter. It was really essential to have something come after that segment. I was expecting anything but what I actually saw on the pages - that 19 years had passed! At least we know Hogwarts, the institution, survived the attack!

Now that there are those little ones running around, it seems like JK might have known her fan community was full of the fiction and wanted to leave some open doors for her fans (as she said she is FINISHED with Potter novels)...OR, do you think she put the little ones onto the pages so that she herself could write more stories? They wouldn't be Potter stories, in the strictest sense of the word. Well, it was an amazing story. Like I said, I wish there had been MORE coverage of the aftermath of the battle with Voldemort, but that is because I just didn't really want to see the story end. Ever. But...

It WAS excellent, I am not disappointed.