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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wolff96" data-source="post: 3656919" data-attributes="member: 342">I have to say that I really enjoyed it and saw it as a fitting conclusion to the series.I liked the bodycount -- there were several major conflicts throughout the storyline and it would have felt really odd not to see named characters getting dropped.  I was kind of amazed at how many threads from previous books got included and tied up here in the last book.And does anyone else think that Snape mastered Occlumency precisely because 'opening his mouth when he should have kept it shut' is what cost him the love of his life?  Lily obviously cared -- a lot -- for Snape.  And yet, his inability to hold his tongue was the final nail in the coffin for that relationship.  (She hated his friends and such, but hadn't given up on him until he called her a 'mudblood'.)And I really enjoyed the redemption of Kreacher.Final thought:  Go Neville!  I would have liked to see him off Bellatrix for his parents, but he impressed his grandmother, led the resistance at Hogwarts all year in the face of some horrific punishments, organized the DA and ran the Room of Requirement, and even destroyed the final Horcrux.  Considering that he had no spine and very little talent throughout most of the books, I loved seeing him finally come into his own.</blockquote>