Name:Rivali Dass
Age:16 :)
Birthday: 5th Oct '92
Class:1D '05, 2e '06 <33,3e '07, 4e '08
School: MGS
I <3: Family, My dogs, 2e, 4e, MORONS, painting, designing, writing weird stories, being generally weird, unsettling people...
DON'T READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED READING HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS.
OMG OMG OMG. I just finished reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. (ps: I originally typed this post out at 1 a.m. last saturday night, but fell asleep before finishing the post, then promptly forgot about it.)
I cried like hell.
I mean, I seriously didn't care when some people like Rufus Scrimgeour died.
But Mad-eye Moody, Hedwig, Fred, Dobby, Colin Creevey, Lupin and Tonks?
I was upset when Moody died. Really upset when Hedwig died.
I was crying when Dobby died. I mean, JKR didn't have to kill him.
'Dobby, no, don't die, don't die-' The elf's eyes found him, and his lips trembled with an effort to form words. 'Harry ... Potter...' And then with a little shudder the elf became quite still, and his eyes were nothing more than great, glassy orbs sprinkled with light from the stars they could not see.
I just couldn't believe Fred, Lupin and Tonks were dead. And though I was really upset when Fred died, I just couldn't be affected by Lupin and Tonks. JKR spent like what, TWO SENTENCES describing their bodies? And then, it was back to the battle.
'No- no- no!' someone was shouting. 'No! Fred! No!' And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.
Frankly, the first 350 pages of the book were very unsatisfactory. Harry, Hermione and Ron are wizards, not campers. They did nothing but traipse around forests, bickering with each other and discussing the fates of the doomed wizarding world from which they had run away from.
But then they were captured, yayadayadyada, then Dobby died (I cried so much in the car, my mom started yelling about getting overemotional over fictional goblins, then I cried even more because Dobby wasn't a goblin, he was an elf. A free elf.). Anyway, things started picking up when they all returned to Hogwarts.
I mean, Harry Potter isn't Harry Potter without Hogwarts right?
But I found some parts of the book really unbelievable.
Like how all the members of the DA, together with Harry's old quidditch team (Oliver Wood, Katie Bell, Angelina Johnson, Alicia Spinnet,etc) all returned to Hogwarts.
I mean, for the DA, nobody had bothered to check their fake galleons for the previous two years, except for Neville and Luna. That's why only Neville and Luna, with Ginny were there to help Harry in the Half Blood Prince right?
And now, suddenly, they're all checking those coins and reappearing in Hogwarts through the Hog's Head? Like Cho Chang and all?
Oh, speaking of the Hog's Head, I ALWAYS KNEW THAT ABERFORTH WAS THE INNKEEPER!! Hahaha.
Before the 7th book came out, I told my sister so, because I had read the following passages from Order of the Phoenix.
The barman sidled towards them out of a back room. He was a grumpy-looking old man with a great deal of long grey hair and beard. He was tall and thin and looked vaguely familiar to Harry.
The Hog's Head bar comprised of one small, dingy and very dirty room that smelled strongly of something that might have been goats. (Aberforth was sent to Azkaban for performing illegal charms on a goat!)
Apart from , that, I think Snape's my favourite character now. Snape loved Lily. Severus Snape loved Lily Potter, and that was all I could think about long after I had put down the book.
Since Lily Potter was symbolised by a doe (James Potter was a stag), Snape's patronus was a silver doe right? I think this was one of the most touching moments of the book-
'I have spied for you, and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter's son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter-' 'But this is touching, Severus,' said Dumbledore seriously. 'Have you grown to care for the boy, after all?' 'For him?' shouted Snape. 'Expecto Patronum!' From the tip of his wand burst the silver doe: she landed on the office floor, bounded once across the office and soared out of the window. Dunbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. 'After all this time?' 'Always,' said Snape.
WHY DID SNAPE HAVE TO DIE??
And I never knew that the fact that Harry had hi mother's eyes would be so significant. Poor Snape, looking into Harry's eyes before he died, imagining they were Lily's.. One last quote-
Harry took off the Invisibility Cloak and looked down upon the man he hated, whose widening black eyes found Harry as he tried to speak. Harry bent over him; and Snape seized the front of his robes and pulled him close. A terrible rasping, gurgling noise issued from Snape's throat. 'Take ... it ... Take ... it ...' Something more than blood was leaking from Snape. Silvery blue, neither gas nor liquid (Snape's memory), it gushed from his mouth and his ears and his eyes, and Harry knew what it was, but did not know what to do- A flask, conjured from thin air, was thrust into his shaking hands by Hermione. Harry lifted the silvery substance into it with his wand. When the flask was full to the brim, and Snape looked as though there was no blood left in him, his grip on Harry's robes slackened. 'Look ... at ... me' he whispered. The green eyes found the black, but after a second something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish, leaving them fixed, blank and empty. The hand holding Harry thudded to the floor, and Snape moved no more.
All in all, I think that she connected the plot (spanning SEVEN books) very well. But still, if only Snape hadn't died...
YShe laughed. And laughed. And laughed yet again.;;
