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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Digital M@" data-source="post: 3670630" data-attributes="member: 13987">I may have missed it, but I don't really see why the hallows were essential to the story or what they even added.  I mean you could have shown a young Dumbledore hungry for power in any number of ways.  The super wand never really plays a role and could of been any wand of renoun power.  The cloak as quoted above, was nothing more than an ordinary cloak of invisabilit  that did not break down.  I really want to like this book more than I do, I keep replaying it in my head, focusing on the parts I liked.  While I did not want Harry to be a Horcrux, I could live with it and embrace it, but I really wanted Harry to mature and apply himself.  I wanted  Harry to show some cleverness, ingenuity and real potential.  Instead we see Hermione doing all of the spell casting, solving all of the problems and taking charge of all of the situations.  ROwling should have ust kept Dumbledore alive if Harry was not going to solve anything on his own.  And having Harry win by turning V's spell back on himself was unfullfilling.  I wanted Harry to become the hero everyone thought he was.Now, maybe part of the point of the story was to shed light that hero's feats are often blown out of proportion, that they can't do things for themselves or they might not even be the most important character in the turn of events, but that is not what I wanted out of this story.  I wanted Harry to really become the  "choosen one" istead of stumbling on through a bunch of accidents and the work of others.IMO, Harry could of shined and Neville could have still killed the snake and Hermione could have been smart and adept and Ron could have followed people around and been dependable.  The book also seemed rushed.   Neville's killing scene could of had more grandure, Fred's death more trauma etc.  The action scenes were fast and sometimes hard to follow.  They did not have the same grandure as the end of the Order of the Pheonix, which is one of my all time favorite combat scenes.  To much too fast, even the many excelllent parts of the book can be easily glossed over and too quickly dissappear by all of the other activities.  I will re-read it after my wife is done as I siad before I really really want to like this book and I hope I over looked things in my first reading.</blockquote>

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