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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Digital M@" data-source="post: 3655126" data-attributes="member: 13987">Spoiers aheadI thought it was OK. Many things in the story bothered me.  Personally, Hemione played too bg of a role, she did everything in the first 3/4 of the books.  Ron and Harry night as well have been monkies picking bugs from each others fur.  Harry did not practice improving his spell casting abilities, silent casting or anything to better prepare himself for the conflict he knew was coming.  I fugured rage and fear would have been motivation enough.We read the same backround information about Dumbledore 4 times in the book, each time with a different flair, but really it was all the same info and IMO was not that interesting.  What bothered me the most is that is brought angry brooding Harry back.There was lots of conflict, but not enough suspence, but that may be because I read the book in one sitting.  I will re-ead it in a month or so over a lnger period of time and I may digest it differently.I was also bothered by Harry ending up unconcious after each combat sequence, it became overused and predictable.  The accidental Horcrux was a really bad story line (IMO), I just did not want to see it in  the story, I did not feel it was going to add any dimension to the characters or the book and it seemed forced.  I also did not understand why Harry toght he could not share info on the Horcrux once V knew Harry was destroying them.  That annoyed me.  The sword in the hat was annoying only because the Goblin tanking the sword was such a big deal.  Harry had conversation about deals with Goblins, the 3 main characters discussed it, the goblin betrays Harry before harry can betray him.  In the end none of that made any difference and it did not make for a richer story.Overall the book did not flow as well as some of the others, characters seemed kind of flat, and I was not immersed into the non acion story like I was in HBP.Honestly, the pace and direction of the book went a much different direction than I thought and that could be coloring my opinion.  I did like how the sequence at Hogwarts went.  I like the buildup of supporters, the multi-faceted battle, V's understanding and exploitation of Harry's weaknesses.  Albus's brother was a great new character, the mystery of where help was coming was well done, Severus's back story was good, but I would of liked to see him have a more active/sacradicial death, he was such a good character, I mean you knew he was a good guy but you still hated him, but liked him deep down inside.</blockquote>

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