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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Loincloth of Armour" data-source="post: 3656373" data-attributes="member: 28201">Spoilers... (for those who are still worried about such things)....I liked the fact that Dumbledore was shown to be less of a 'living angel' and more of a real person who had made some dumb-a$$ choices in his life.  One thing Rowling has shown is that people change.Dumbledore went from a pro-wizard supremacist to a supporting of muggle rights.Snape went from Death Eater to the most important member of the Order.Draco went from stereotypical antagonist to guy who realizes he's in over his head and this isn't what he wants.Narcissa went from a cold-hearted cow to a woman who realized her choices could cost her the life of her only son.And James Potter went from a stuck-up, pompous, horrible toerag of a jerk to someone who  could form a loving relationship with a genuinely kind human being.Does explain Dumbledore's tendency to give people second chances.  For the book itself, for the most part I liked it.  I do believe that Rowling (like quite a number of authors) has difficulty ending stories.   As this book was the wrap-up of the whole thing I kept reading it thinking, "How is she going to wrap it up in 300 pages?"  Then, "How can she possibly bring everything together in 200 pages?" and followed by "She's got 100 pages to solve all the problems?!  HOW?!"  Not sure the ending worked for me (and I'm not really fond of the epilogue), but I took away many years of joyful reading from the series so can forgive slight flaws.  She was writing the book for herself (and as one other poster mentioned, had this ending in mind for over a decade from when she was a less experienced writer), so I'm happy for the journey I've been on.The whole 'Deathly Hallows' angle didn't work for me.  Bringing such important new things into the story so late in the game felt forced.  My personal feelings are that focusing on the Horcruxes story-line exclusively would have been stronger.  Or may if the Hallows had been mentioned in a previous book.Oh, and did anyone else get the, "man, with how sly and corrupting it is, that locket must be made out of the remains of the One Ring," vibe I did?I will say that the spots of humor in the first 1/2 of the book made me laugh out loud.  I certainly wasn't expecting them in this book of death and sacrifice, so I really had a hoot.I publicly admit I thought Ron was on the short-list to getting killed.  (Sidekick dies, motivates the hero and all that.)  When he walked out, I experienced my first real fear as I realized, "Wait... Ron's not there anymore.  That means the dramatic sacrifice will be... Hermione."Glad to see it didn't happen (she's my favourite character), but nothing, and I mean nothing would have made me doubt her chances of survival except for Ron's walk.</blockquote>

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