24 July 2007 @ 08:41 pm
Deathly Hallows review  
I managed to type some of my thoughts in between reading:

1. The Dark Lord Ascending
Ooh, a Snape chapter again! I bet with that Jo wants to make us think he's evil.
Ooh again: we see Malfoy's Manor! Haha, peacocks.
Who is Snape's source? Does that mean there's someone in the Order who still trusts him?
Ha, Snape said Harry will be moved next Saturday, Yaxley said it will be later. Someone's trying to lay a false trail and I say it's Snape. Yes, I still trust him very much.
Whoa, they plan to bring down the Ministry!
Lucius? When did he get out of Azkaban?
OMG, *squeeeeeeee*!!!!1!!eleventryone! Tonks & Lupin have married!
And, OMG, Bellatrix wants to kill them.
Ooh, we see one more Hogwarts teacher! When Voldemort had asked Snape if he recognized her I feard it was McGonagall.

2. In Memoriam
Ah, there's the Two-way mirror!
Oh wow, the article about Dumbledore's life is fascinating!
Rita Skeeter, that bitch, is back.
OMG, the mirror did something!

3. The Dursleys Departing
It's awefully nice of Harry and Co to protect the Dursleys. After all they're, you know, the Dursleys.
I'm a little worried that Dudley is so interested in where Harry is going. Is he under the Imperius, is he Snape's source?
Okay, Dudley thinks Harry is no waste of space. I must say that, after I stared, I awed. Oh, maybe Dudley has noticed he can do magic?
WTF, I had tears in my eyes when Harry and Dudley said goodbye. Wow, the Dementors have managed to change Dudley!

4. The Seven Potters
Now, that chapter title made me go "The what? o_O" ^^.
OMG, the motorbike is back! Heee!
HA, the Order knows that Pius Thicknesse is under the Imperius Curse. Because my Snape told them!
Aaah! See that lightbulb above my head? It went on when Moody said Harry can only leave via brroms, Thestrals or Hagrid's motorbike. I think I know what the chapter title means: those are fake Harrys (except for one) - and that's why so many people (13) came to get Harry. 14 people, 7 Harrys makes 6 fake Harrys with one escort each and the real Harry with an escort. I feel so clever! LOL.
Ooookayyy...so it's the Saturday ...that looks bad for Snape being innocent. But I'm sure there's an explanation. Like: Snape has to keep Voldemorts trust!
Oooh, Harry will go to Tonks's parents' house - that means they're still both alive. Nice.
Hermione: "Ooh, you look much tastier than Crabbe and Goyle, Harry" *sporfle*
Fred and George as Harry lookalikes: "Wow - we're identical" LOL
Fleur's reaction was funny, too.
Ooh, I'm impressed: there's the word doppelgänger including the dots above the a!
[Harry] felt like asking them to show a little more respect for his privacy as they all began stripping off with impunity, clearly much more at ease with displaying his body than they would have been with their own *g*
"I knew Ginny was lying about that tattoo" ^^
Jo killed Hedwig! You bastard! It's strange, I can be more sad about the death of a pet than a human character.
OMG, Stan Shunpike! Imperiused what it looks like.
Holy Shit! Voldemort can fly without a broom or anything!
Oh god, not Hagrid too, please!

5. Fallen Warrior
The chapter title scares me.
Oh, thank god, Hagrid is okay!
I hope so much that no one of the Order is a traitor - I trust all of them...except for Mundungus maybe.
And more thanks to god: It's only Mad-Eye who's dead. I was soooo relieved!
OMG, Harry's visits to Voldemort's mind are back!
And there's Ollivander! So that's why he had been kidnapped.

6. The Ghoul in Pyjamas
Sounds like this chapter's gonna be fun. I hope it will be, I need it.
So...Jo managed to make me paranoid and now I suspect Mrs Weasley. But only a little bit.
Ah, finally, Ron is starting to make a move. ^^
It's good to know that Hermione's parents are save, but it makes me really sad that they don't know about Hermione.
Ooh, more info on Horcruxes. Oh Jo, you and your creative mind are my heroes!

7. The Will of Albus Dumbledore
Hehe, so that's where Ron knows how to behave - that book he gives Harry for his birthday.
Aw, the Harry/Molly hug! ♥
Dammit, Ron, if you hadn't walked in on Harry & Ginny we would have gotten some canon porn! LOL
Harry compliments Mama Weasley, and Ron: 'Good one'. Bwahaha!
This chapter seems way lighter to me than the one before - though I wouldn't have thought it possible with this title. I really wonder why I still haven't learnt not to trust chapter titles.
Dammit, what is Jo doing? I was a little sad when in a previous chapter Lupin wasn't so nice. And now we see him again, he looks unhappy. I'm worried.
Ah, then finally on to the will. The Deluminator - it has a real name!
*stares* Hermione Jean Granger? When has Jo changed the place of the e?
Scrimgeour "It's time you learned some respect" - Harry "It's time you earned it" PWNED! \o/

8. The Wedding
OMG, Xenophilius Lovegood has the mysterious symbol on a chain!
Whoa, that's Grindelwald's sign?! O_O
- WTF? I'm slow. I only just really looked at the cover. Looks like Kreacher is behind Harry and he's holding Gryffindor's sword.
Aunt Muriel and Elphias Doge discuss Dumbledore. Oh wow. Who to believe? I think Muriel could be right...that that's the reason why Dumbledore trusted Snape.
Whoa, Bathilda Bagshot and Dumbledore lived in Godric's Hollow! *stares some more*
The Ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming. OH...MY...GOD

9. A Place to Hide
Oooh, they're in the Muggle part of London! That's exciting.

10. Kreacher's Tale
I bet whoever searched the house had been looking for Slytherin's Locket.
Oh wow, Harry finds a letter from Lily. Oooh, precious info! But most interesting I find: Lily and James had known Bathilda.
HA! Regulus Acturus Black. R.A.B.!
Dude, I knew it! Mundungus had stolen the locket last year.
Jo can do magic: She made me like Kreacher!

11. The Bribe
Aw, Lupin was nice again...but still...I just couldn't shake this paranoid feeling. He asked what HRH are up to and if he could come with them.
OMG, there are gonna be multicoloured werewolf cubs! Heee! But Lupin doesn't seem happy or anything. Dammit, Jo, why are you doing this to me?
Ah, okay. Now that Lupin explained it I'm feeling a bit better.
I swear, when I'm finished with this book I'm ready for the asylum. Of course I had to think of Snape when Harry called Lupin a coward and Lupin attacked. The whole chapter I had suspected that it could be Snape. Oh god, I can't stand this neverending paranoia. And I want, need proof that I'm right, that Snape is one of the good guys.
Oooh, Umbridge got the locket! And on the cover HRH & Kreacher are probably looking for it.

12. Magic is Might
WHOA! Snape is Headmaster! OMG.
OMG, GERMAN! YAY! ^^ In case anyone wants a translation:
Er wohnt hier nicht mehr: He doesn't live here anymore.
Das weiß ich nicht: I don't know.
Empty theatre? That's the place from the American cover, isn't it?

13. The Muggle-Born Registration Commisson
I can't wait for Voldemort's death! It seems everybody in the Ministry calls Muggle-borns Mudbloods now and what I guess could be half the wizarding community is being persecuted for simply being who they are. It's scary. How can everybody just go with it? What the hell is wrong with Umbridge that she just doesn't care about all those people?
Woot, they got the locket! And saved some Muggle-borns!

14. The Thief
Noo! HRH had to leave the Grimmauld Place :o(
I fell asleep while on page 229 and awoke next morning noon to finally find out why this chapter is called The Thief. Hm...golden hair. Could the thief be Lockhart? If so the chances of finding what he's stolen seem not so good.

15. The Goblin's Revenge
Oooh, Ted! And Dean!
Ginny! Gryffindor's sword! Fake!
Ha, the others who tried to steal Gryffindor's sword were Neville and Luna. Of course :o)
Dumbledore destroyed a Horcrux with the sword! So that's why he wanted Harry to have it!
No! Ron left! :o(((

16. Godric's Hollow
Yay, finally in Godric's Hollow!
Oooh, now we know James & Lily's birthdates.

17. Bathilda's Secret
OMG, the house is still there. And aw, the sign!
Whoa, Bathilda is dead. Nagini! Even more whoa: the Potters' death from Voldemort's POV! And I thought we'd learn something interesting from Bathilda. Why am I such a slow learner? Never trust chapter titles! They are seldom what they seem.
No, Harry's wand is dead!

18. The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore
OMG, the thief was Grindelwald. WTF, he has been friends with Dumbledore! O_O
And Grindelwald is related to Bathilda!
I bet Grindelwald had killed Ariana.

19. The Silver Doe
My guess is that the silver doe is Ginny's Patronus.
OMG yes, he found Gyffindor's sword!
Ron is back! \o/
And he's saved Harry!
And the locket Horcrux is destroyed!!!!! YAY!!!!
Aw, Harry and Ron hug...I've waited for that.
I wonder what that little ball of light was o_O

20. Xenophilius Lovegood
Oooh, he gets to be a chapter title?
Whoa they track people who say 'Voldemort' O_O
Ooh, Dumbledore had used the mysterious symbol. Hmph, I hope that thing gets a name soon.
I was a bit (but of course positively) surprised that Xeno's still alive, after all he's reporting the truth in the Quibbler and Voldemort can't have that. But there's an Erumpet horn, so someone has at least tried. I just hope they get rid of it before something happens.
Ooooooh, OMG OMG, so that symbol is that of the Deathly Hallows!

21. The Tale of the Three Brothers
Oooh, so that are the Deathly Hallows! Sounds like they are the things Harry needs to finish Voldemort.
Whoa, HRH already have the Third Hallow?
The Elder Wand, I bet that's what Grindelwald stole. Of course then the question is how he could lose against Dumbledore in a duel.
If this story about the Deathly Hallows is completely true that means that there is Death as kind of a person. That's a weird thought.
Dammit, I knew something was wrong. The Death Eaters had taken Luna!
I really hope Xeno survided the house's collapse - he could have been sheltered by the staircase...or not. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

22. The Deathly Hallows
If Marvolo's ring is from one of the Peverells could the stone in it be the Resurrection Stone? Hehe, Harry seems to think like me.
Whoa, whoa, whoa! I think my brain just broke! Harry thinks he's decended from the third Peverell brother. If that's true that means he's related to Voldemort! OMG, OMG, OMG!!!!! And I wonder where the relation to Slytherin came in. It must have been after the Peverell brothers or else Harry would have been Slytherin's heir, too.
Now Harry comes to the same conclusion as I have in the previous chapter: Voldemort is after the Elder Wand. I'm glad we agree. Sure, Harry wasn't always right, but I'm really pretty sure he's this time.
Oh hey, the silver doe is mentioned - that reminds me: I now think more that it was Snape's Patronus. Remember how Jo wouldn't tell us the shape his Patronus takes? My Snapey is so one of the good guys! *g*
Heeee, Potterwatch! Lee Jordan!
Oh no, Papa Tonks is dead! :o((
Oh, LOL, now I see a pattern in the code names ^^. Jordan is a river, there's the myth or whatever of Remus and Romulus and Kingsley -> Royal. Nice, hehe.
Fred/George! I get the code name Rodent, but I can't get behind the sense of Rapier :o/

23. Malfoy Manor
No! Harry said "Voldemort", HRH got caught! O_O
I bet Voldemort is in Thingygard, visiting Grindelwald.
Hm...seems like Draco doesn't want to confirm that it's Harry. Maybe Draco wants him to live so he can save them all from Voldemort.
Luna! And Ollivander is still alive!
DOBBY!
Why the hell did Pettigrew's silver hand turn against him? o_O Can it think for itself? LOL, it reminds me of a movie called Killer Hand (Don't know if that's the original title too or only the German version).
Why was Bellatrix so afraid when she had seen the sword and so relieved when Griphook lied (my hero) that it's a fake? Does she know what the sword can do, does she know about the Horcruxes?
Noooo, Dobby! :,,o(

24. The Wandmaker
OMG, the funeral made me cry. *sniff*
While Harry is thinking about who could have sent Dobby, I think I know. Hm...Dobby was at Hogwarts. Who else is there? Snape! Snape sent Dobby! Ha.
Ahhh, so on the cover it's probably the Lestranges' vault where HRH are.
OMG, no, Voldemort has the Elder Wand!

25. Shell Cottage
OMG, lost diadem of Ravenclaw? Something of Ravenclaw's - it must be a Horcrux!
Lupin, Jo, you scared me for a second, you evil bastards! Oooh, Tonks has had the baby! It's a boy and they named him Ted (Heh, I knew it!)! And Lupin wants Harry to be godfather, awww! Hee, little Teddy has inherited his mum's metamorphmagusness.
Bill tells Harry about goblins. So goblins can't really be trusted, hm. That's what I had started suspecting earlier this chapter. The cover: It's probably not Kreacher but Griphook. And it looks like he's grabbing the sword and trying to shut HRH in the vault.

26. Gringotts
Hmph, so Griphook decided to save himself in the end, of course.
I wonder if there was really only the one Horcrux in the vault. If so, why?? Why was the cup not hidden in a cave or something? Or why weren't the other Horcruxes in the vault, too?

27. The Final Hinding Place
I'm happy that the dragon is free. And I wonder how many Muggles have seen it. ^^
If Harry has just changed clothes, why is there a singed hole in his jeans?
Oh yes, Harry has Voldyvision when Voldemort thinks about his Horcruxes. There's one at Hogwarts (must be the diadem - but how did he get it/when did he put it there? When he asked Dumbledore for the DADA job?)! And Nagini! Dumbledore guessed right.
Wow, that chapter was short!

28. The Missing Mirror
Haha, Aberforth, always with the goats ^^.
Ooh, Aberforth has the other Two-Way Mirror - it was his eye Harry had seen!
Ah, finally the truth about Dumbledore's past!
Okay, so Aberforth doesn't seem to know that Snape is one of the good guys.
Neville! \o/

29. The Lost Diadem
Heee, Neville is all kinds of awesome!
Oooh, if marble Ravenclaw is wearing the Horcrux diadem?
Alecto, no! OH SHIT!

30. The Sacking of Severus Snape
Snape ran away. I'm still quite sure he's one of the good guys.
So if the lost diadem really is lost then I guess the statue of Ravenclaw is the Horcrux.
OMG, Percy! *is happy*
Bathroom? Could it be Myrtle's. I bet Ron ad Hermione are off to the Chamber of Secrets.

31. The Battle of Hogwarts
The combination of the chapter title and the fact that there are a lot of characters I like in the castle makes me nervous. There are only three people I'm not worried about, because I'm so very sure they will survive: Harry, Ron and Hermione.
I don't get it: if Voldemort doesn't want Harry to find the Horcrux, why does he give Harry 30 more minutes to go looking for it?
Oooh, the Grey Lady is Rowena Ravenclaw's daughter! Whoa, it was the Bloody Baron who had killed the Grey Lady! O_O
OH! MY! GOD! O_O The diadem's in Albania! That must have been why Voldemort had been hinding there.
OMG, Harry had already seen the diadem a year earlier!
I wonder how Voldemort could think he was the only one to find the Room of Requirement when the place was so full of old things. What must he have thought how it got there? o_O
Hee, Neville's grandmother rocks - goes to assist him fighting ^^. But no, Ginny and Tonks are still in the Room of Requirement, but have to get out, so Harry can get to the diadem. I'm worried.
Hee, Ron expresses his worries for the house-elves and then Hermione kisses him! ^^ ♥
Crabbe & Goyle! And Malfoy! Dammit!
Wow, HRH saved Goyle and Malfoy.
Noooooo! Not Fred! OMG, OMG! *sniff* Jo, you evil -! *sob*

32. The Elder Wand
I bet Snape only wants to go find Harry, because there's something important he has to tell him.
Noooo, Snape! :o(((
I bet the memory he left will show he's one of the good guys. Finally they will all know! HA!

33. The Prince's Tale
WHAT? Lupin and Tonks are dead too? Noo! NOOOO!!! ...OMG, no *sobs*
OMG, Snape and the Evanses lived in the same town!
Ahh, so that's where Petunia had heard of the Dementors.
OMG, Lily and Snape had been friends! I never would have guessed there had been something mutual.
HA! I knew it! I so knew it! Dumbledore had slowly been dying from that mysterious hand injury. I feared that because all of a sudden he had seemed very interested in telling Harry about Voldemort's past and the whole Horcrux business...like his time was running out. Wait, wait, wait! At that time Dumbledore already knew of Voldemort's/Malfoy's plan to kill him? I thought it was the whole plan he didn't know about, not just the letting Death Eaters into the castle via the Vanishing Cabinet part.
HOLY I CAN'T THINK OF WORDS! There had been the theory that Harry is a Horcrux, but I never believed it, because Horcruxes had to be made with a spell and Voldemort didn't have time for that when the Killing Curse backfired. I never thought that there could have been any other way that a piece of Voldemort's soul got into Harry (partly because I was so 100% sure that Harry would survive). But it did *stares*.
Snape's Patronus was a silver doe. HA!
Oh, I almost forgot to mention: HA!!! My Snapey was a good guy. ...A tragic hero :,,,o(

34. The Forest Again
Harry thinks he has to die and it very much looks like it, but I still cling to the possibility that he survives...though I can see no way. But I'm sure Jo did - maybe it's something to do with the still unanswered question of Lily's eyes. ...Or maybe the Resurrection Stone and I think it's going to save Harry's life. There a big difference between the story of the three brothers and Harry: it had been some time ago that the brother's girlfriend died, but Harry will have the Stone (if it really is in the Snitch) with him when he dies.
Colin Creevey! :o(((
The Marauders, minus Pettigrew, plus Lily! ♥

35. King's Cross
Harry's alive! I knew it!
Ahhh, the gleam of triumph, finally explained. YAY!

36. The Flaw in the Plan
Ha, it's so lucky for Harry that Narcissa actually loves her son.
Yes, [livejournal.com profile] lilyrite, I remember: House-elves army, you suggested it first. ^^
Oh, wow, Harry vs. Voldemort - just talking - it was so awesome!
Peeves calls Voldemort 'Voldy' ^______^

Nineteen Years Later
Whoa, 19 years! That means it's 2017!
Heh, of course they named their daughter Lily :o) ...and their son James ♥. Whoa, Albus? That doesn't sound like the name for a kid.
But where is Ted? I wanna see him!
Ah, the Weasleys! :o))) ...Rose...cute. Hugo...even cuter. I don't know why, but I kinda like that name.
Haha, Scorpius Malfoy. Poor kid.
Yay, Teddy! And who is this Victoire? Don't like that name, don't know how to pronounce it. So she is a Weasley kid?
Ha, Neville, is Herbology Professor. I knew it!
OMG, AWWWWW, Albus's middle name is Severus. ♥


Questions left unanswered:
Jo had said it would be very important that Harry had Lily's eyes. Did I miss/forget something?
We still don't know all 12 uses of dragon blood.
Jo had said that the information if any of the teachers have spouses is kind of restricted and we'd find out why.
How did Dumbledore get his scar in the London Underground?
What was the importance of the Hogwarts graveyard? We've never seen it - only Dumbledore's lonely tomb.
Who was the person to manage in desperate circumstances doing magic quite late in life?

Well, that's for sure: I'm so not gonna see the movie in the cinema. I don't like crying in public.
 
 
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[identity profile] malicat.livejournal.com on July 25th, 2007 01:51 pm (UTC)
Wow,das hat echt Spaß gemacht zu lesen! Ich hätte währende dem Lesen von DH das gar nicht schreiben können.Zwischendrin war ich teilweise so sehr gefangen,ich hab kaum noch was mitgekriegt *lol*

Jo had said it would be very important that Harry had Lily's eyes. Did I miss/forget something?

Naja,Snape bittet Harry ja nochmal kurz bevor er stirbt,dass er ihm in die Augen schaut.So kann er nochmal Lilys Augen sehen.
Oder meintest du was anderes?
fueschgast: HP - Snape[personal profile] fueschgast on July 25th, 2007 02:09 pm (UTC)
Naja, ich hatte was großes erwartet. Was von Bedeutung.

Q: Are there any special wizarding powers in your world that depend on the wizard using their eyes to do something?
JKR: Why do you want to know this?
Q: Well because everyone always go on about how Harry's got Lily Potter's eyes.
JKR: Aren't you smart - there is something, maybe coming about that, I'm going to say no more - very clever.


Hmm...vielleicht hab ich das misinterpretiert. Dass es da nicht darum ging, dass Harry Lily's Augen hat, sondern um Occlu- & Legilimency.