It was...and it did evoke pity, but as Dumbledore said, there was nothing that could be done for it.emmline wrote:I felt kind of bad for the little whimpering sniveling thing under the bench in the Kings Cross Station scene. I presume it was the piece of Voldemort which had been inhabiting Harry, and which he could only separate from by dying.
I think Fred's death was the hardest to sink in. It was totally unexpected, for me at least. But I can see him joining Peeves for some ghostly mischief around Hogwarts.gonzo914 wrote:Too bad about Fred. I like to think he became a ghost at Hogwarts, and that George became the Charms professor after Flitwick retired.
Well... he did end up with a very intimate knowledge of just who Snape really was, and he did, finally, fully understand that Snape had indeed been on the good side all along, just had to keep enough on the bad side to pass for one of MoldyVoldy's followers. I thought the name was a good tribute.jsluder wrote:I was very glad that the final battle was at Hogwarts. (Where else could it have been, really?)
The biggest surprise, to me, was that Harry and Ginny named one of their children after Snape. That's maturity and forgiveness far beyond anything Harry had displayed previously, and a very fitting end to the book (and series). Well done, J. K. Rowling!
Well, the latest newswires quote Rowling as saying she's planning to work on an encyclopedia of characters which would give further details on the backgrounds and lives of people she couldn't cover adequately in the books.anniemcu wrote:I wish she'd given us just a bit more on the raising of Remus and Tonks' kiddo, and the like... ah well... you can't have everything.
Well, she did. For quite a while she was quoted as saying she knew the end of the last chapter, and that the last sentence ended with the word "scar." Then in an interview this past April she revealed that this had changed, but she didn't say why. I was speculated that she did it to throw off the speculators.Weeks wrote:I almost think she mighta re-written the ending at the last minute just to confound the speculations. It worked.
True. But my point is that a less mature Harry wouldn't have been able to do that. I appreciate that Rowling's characters actually grow, both physically and emotionally. So many fictional characters are emotionally static.anniemcu wrote:Well... he did end up with a very intimate knowledge of just who Snape really was, and he did, finally, fully understand that Snape had indeed been on the good side all along, just had to keep enough on the bad side to pass for one of MoldyVoldy's followers. I thought the name was a good tribute.jsluder wrote:The biggest surprise, to me, was that Harry and Ginny named one of their children after Snape. That's maturity and forgiveness far beyond anything Harry had displayed previously, and a very fitting end to the book (and series). Well done, J. K. Rowling!
