I finished the book yesterday at my best friend's house.
I got teary eyed when Dudley was acting all nice to Harry. I mean, here's someone that's treated Harry like shit most of thier lives at this point, and he's turned over a new leaf. I was quite pleased.
Um.....killing Hedwig? Wast that even remotely neccessary? No...just no. I thought the first rule of thumb was: Don't kill the family pet. I saw that death, I was mortifed and thought wtf?
Then poor Mad Eye Moody dying and George getting his ear taken off :(
I didn't really like the fact that Harry, Ron, Hermione didn't got back to Hogwarts. She did seven books for SEVEN YEARS AT HOGWARTS. The cool thing about the other books WAS Hogwarts. The teachers, the classes, the ghosts, etc. This mission they were on, actually bored me to some degree.
I was annoyed that Dumbledore never really gave Harry any real clear indication of how to go about this mission. He more or less set this poor kid out on his own and was like "lots of luck homes!". These three kids were more or less 'Forest Gumping' their way through it.
Poor Dobby!!! *weeps*
The battling scenes. I'm sorry, but I'm a simple girl who simple things. That being said, I DON'T LIKE clusterfucked battle scenes. Sorry I just don't. I can't read about fifty two millions things happening at one time. I can't. I get confused, then I get bored. With all the shit that went on in Hogwarts during the battle, I was more or less like "Oh come the fuck on and end it already...tl:dr JKR".
WTF? SHE KILLED FRED!!?! No, just no. I litterally screamed "NOOOOOOOOO!" outloud when I read it. His death, along with many others in this book was JKR killing people just to kill people.
Remus and Tonks dying. Again, JKR killing people just to kill people so that she didn't need to kill off Harry.
Neville should have been the one to kill Bellatrix. Not Molly. And JKR wrote Molly COMPLETELY out of character in that scene, IMO.
Snape's death was about the only one that made a lick of sense in this book. I mean, he had to die one way or another. Either Voldie kills him for betraying him *or someother reason like we saw* or Harry kills him for killing Dumbledore in book six. I think most of us knew before the book came out that Snape was probably going to die, one way or the other.
Snape's past :(. Seeing tht made me admire him a great deal more.
And I was somewhat right about Petunia. I told HG that before the book came out that I had a theory that Petunia went to Hogwarts. While she didn't go to Hogwarts as we found out, she WANTED too. I think from then on, she was more or less jealous of Lily, cause Lily got to, then jealous of Harry, cause he got too, when she as a child after personally mailing Dumbledore got rejected. I almost felt for Petunia in that part.
I'm sorry, but HARRY SHOULD HAVE DIED. Even Dumbledore in the book tells Snape that Harry is to die. And when Harry sees that in Snape's pensive, turns himself over to Voldermort, so that Voldermort could kill him. WTF she didn't kill off Harry and end the book with that got me. Yet, she lets him live and Voldermort die.
That Epilouge was EPIC FAIL. Holy fuck. She could have done a hell of a lot more with that than show that all Ron/Hermonie and Harry/Ginny know how to do was procreate. The ONLY good thing about the epilouge was mentioning that Neville became a teacher at Hogwarts. There was no mention of what happened to ANY of the other supporting cast. What became of Luna? How did George cope after all those years after loosing his TWIN? What happened to the other members of Dumbledore's Army that survived?
I think JKR really jumped the shark with this one. Too many needless deaths, too much busyness in the fight scenes, failed epilouge...just ugh period.