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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 2423126" data-attributes="member: 707">A couple points:1.  If Regulus Black were alive, then he would be the rightful inheritor of 12 Grimmault Place.  As Dumbledore's test seems to have proven Harry the rightful inheritor, it would seem that Regulus is dead as a doornail.  I suppose that Kreacher could have been acting and we may learn later that Regulus told him to play along, or something of the sort, but it seems unlikely to me.2.  The Tonks subplot completely threw me for a loop.  I seem to remember Lupin or somebody mentioning that she was feeling bad because she felt it had been her fault that Sirius had died.  I expected Harry to absolve her of blame at some point, and at the same time come to terms with Sirius' death himself.  Having Tonks' attitude turn out to be lovesickness was...jarring.3.  Snape.  Ah, Snape.  The memories we received in the previous book that showed us the conflict between James and Snape really illuminated a lot about him.  In this book, Snape's rage when Harry calls him a coward seemed significant as well.  I think that in the end, their relationship will come to Snape forgiving Harry for being James' son, after Harry shows him once and for all that he isn't James.4.  Dumbledore had to die, so I was expecting it.  It's the same reason that we don't ever see Batman in the Teen Titans cartoon.  Harry needs to stand on his own against Voldemort, without the option of leaning on "the only man Voldemort fears."  I do expect we haven't seen the last of Fawkes, though.  Dumbledore has already told us that Fawkes came to Harry in The Chamber of Secrets because Harry displayed loyalty to Dumbledore.  In this novel, we saw that loyalty even more strongly.</blockquote>

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