I wanted to see the Hufflepuff common room! It's the only one we never got to visit!!!
Loved this book.
-I was right about Snape. And I took a lot of heat for saying he was my favorite character. Until the last half of book 7, when Dumbledore
finally becomes human, he was the most complex, and least definable character in the whole wizarding world. Good or Evil? we didn't really
know until the very end.
- I was right about Aberforth! The first time I read #5, I remember thinking, "That barman's description sounds exactly like Dumbledore." Then
when I reread it, and Moody was naming off all of the Order members, I knew it was him. I thought it was odd that Harry didn't ask Moody
or Dumbledore about Aberforth.
-I was not right about much else, but it was still a great read. The fastest 750 pages I've ever read.
Only a scant few things dissapointed me.
- It was the fastest 750 pages I ever read. But there was no way I could have let it sit.
-For all the attention it got, I thought that Tonks/Lupin/Teddy subplot was going to be more important. Tonks was never one of my favorites,
and I thought Teddy was going to be way more important down the road, since Lupin was the last of James' friends, and the one Harry spent the most time with.
-That final showdown, when Harry really and truly comes face to face with Voldemort at the do-or-die moment was a teeny, tiny, slightly little bit
anticlimatic. Just one blast, and Voldemort was done. I thought he would be a more clever opponent. Though I was so emotinoally exhausted
at that point that I was just glad it was over.
Loved it. Now I am really interested to read something by Rowling that isn't Harry Potter.