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message 54: by Ella (new)

2610153 I thought the battle against Voldemort was too short. WAYG?


message 53: by Whitney (new)

2520247 i LOVED the last few chapters; they were AMAZING!! but i was really disappointed by the epilogue...i think she could've done better. it left me with like an empty feeling...but it is totally my favorite out of the series! :D


message 52: by Ella (new)

2610153 O.K. Thank you guys!


2610885 Okay then... at least you can't really hear us shout together! ;)


message 50: by Briansgirl "Master Book Sale Huntress" (last edited Nov 01, 2009 12:11PM) (new)

1895628 Correct Jackie.

Definitions:

Etiquette: rules governing socially acceptable behavior

Netiquette (Internet Etiquette): Online manners and rules of conduct for Internet users. One of the primary rules of netiquette is not typing messages in all uppercase letters, which is considered the equivalent of shouting.


message 49: by Jackie (new)

2596222 etiquette is like manners. its pretty much appropriate behaviour...


message 48: by Ella (new)

2610153 What's etiquette? I have NEVER heard that term before.


1895628 netiquette is internet etiquette


message 46: by Ella (new)

2610153 What is "netiquette"?


1895628 It's okay Ella. It's just part of netiquette that we all learn.


message 44: by Ella (new)

2610153 Oh I'm sorry I didn't know that. If I offended anybody by using caps I'm sorry I didn't mean it!


1895628 Yeah Ella, I do. Online, typing in all capital letters is shouting. It's also considered rude.


message 42: by Ella (new)

2610153 I wasn't "Shouting" I just typed in in caps. Got a problem with that??


2610885 Ella, my BFF, and I are alwys shouting. SEE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!


message 40: by Briansgirl "Master Book Sale Huntress" (last edited Oct 30, 2009 04:58PM) (new)

1895628 Yes Ella. Even JKR alluded to it in the epilogue. No need to shout.


message 39: by Ella (new)

2610153 SLYTHERIN??? HARRY'S SON?????


1895628 Christina, try reading the James Potter stories by G. Norman Lippert. They follow Harry son James to Hogwarts. In his second book, lil Albus starts Hogwarts and indeed gets sorted into Slytherin.


message 37: by Ella (new)

2610153 Well I know what happens to Sirius..... HE'S DEAD!


message 36: by Christina (new)

2856188 I would love a continuation with Albus in slytherin. I thought the ending was a little lame i would like more details like what happend to Luna and Sirius


message 35: by Ella (new)

2610153 I dunno. They both are HORRIBLE!


1895628 Scorpius is worse.


message 33: by Ella (new)

2610153 Brianne wrote: "yeah, but think about it, if she did a chapter listing all the stuff like jobs and stuff it'd be boring. and difficult since they're all over the wizarding world so it wouldn't be easy to do like h..."

Yeah I never actually thought about that. I guess it WOULD be pretty boring. And YES that kid WILL get beat up. Poor guy.....


message 32: by Brianne (new)

1442483 i kno he's gonna get beat up


2381120 Gunjari wrote: "liked it, even the epilouge... although i absolutely despise the name ALBUS SEVERUS!!!!!!! i mean, what were they thinking?!?! that little kid will be teased about his name for the rest of his life!"

Albus Severus is the kind of name that gets kids jinked. Poor, poor kid.


message 30: by Brianne (new)

1442483 yeah, but think about it, if she did a chapter listing all the stuff like jobs and stuff it'd be boring. and difficult since they're all over the wizarding world so it wouldn't be easy to do like harry walking around talking to people or anything.


message 29: by Ella (new)

2610153 To tell you the truth I read the epiloge BEFORE I read #7. When I first read it the first thought was: STUPID! YOU NEED MORE DETAIL! I mean, how old are the kids, what's your job? I thought she could have done WAY better.


1895628 I thought the ending was lacking in so many ways. I was unsatisfied and was left with too many questions. Once I read her post DH interviews where she went into who married whom, what careers they had, did they graduate from Hogwarts after all, etc. then I finally felt closure.


message 27: by Meghan (new)

384537 It didn't answer enough questions for me. It wasn't what I was hoping for, but I'd never like the end of Harry Potter, even if it was perfect, because it's THE END! SOB!


2418650 I heard about the ending and I liked it!!


message 25: by Brianne (new)

1442483 yeah


message 24: by Alaric (new)

2833326 While Rowling explains what happened herself later on to the characters I think it would have been best if there wasn't an epilouge. I liked learning what happened after Voldemort's death but some books are better left without them. Also it might have added to the story if Harry had died at the end.

Though, I can can understand why she wrote the epilouge. Probably to keep people from pressuring her to write more books in the Harry Potter series.


message 23: by Brianne (new)

1442483 i don't think it is. but i think she should of written a new epilogue that related more to the book, instead of the dusty old thing she'd written months ago


message 22: by Gunjari (new)

1153321 what the heckia are you talking about? who mentioned an oborist?

is it true that luna married rufus scamander, grandson of newt scamander (i'm not certain if it's mentioned in the epilouge)


message 21: by ♥LadyLau♥ (new)

1158616 What'a an oborist? I thought he was an auror?


message 20: by ♥LadyLau♥ (new)

1158616 I think she wrote it pretty well, actully. But I don't like sad endings. :_(


message 19: by ♥LadyLau♥ (new)

1158616 It did. Harry turned into an auror.


message 18: by Snowsong (new)

1022413 *sigh* ya know guys, with the epilogue as lousy as it was, she left PLENTY of room for a spin-off series!


message 17: by Gunjari (new)

1153321 the epilouge was kinda pointless, i must agree.
and scorpio sucks, but albus severus sucks more.
is it true that jo is writing more harry potter books? i mean not like extensions on the actual series, but like companion books from other characters' points of veiw???


message 16: by Michael (new)

1190764 The epilogue was a nightmare... I mean really it was vague and short... I wanted to know what became of these great characters...


I and the kids names... I mean my god what was she thinking...

As for the ending of the book... I loved it.. I thought it was excellent way to end the book...

I will just not read the epilogue anymore when I reread these books.... for years to come...


message 15: by Nikki (new)

575042 LOL...Oh Gunjari, just look at some of the other names though. Draco's kid is named Scorpio! I vote that name as worse than Albus Severus....


message 14: by Gunjari (new)

1153321 liked it, even the epilouge... although i absolutely despise the name ALBUS SEVERUS!!!!!!! i mean, what were they thinking?!?! that little kid will be teased about his name for the rest of his life!


message 13: by Kanika (new)

1142744 i thought the ending was really not thought over because
1. harry and voldemort hardly had a fight and i thought that part shuld have been more dramatic
2. they only told us abt a few characters not all and personally i wuld love 2 noe wat happned to the weasley brothers and tons of others.


message 12: by Snowsong (new)

1022413 i thought harry sould have died, and stayed dead. give rowling something to write about. ron and hermione want revenge and go kill voldemort themselves!


message 11: by Steph (new)

427755 The ending was alright, but I thought it was kind of cheesy. It just seemed like a throw on to the rest of the book. Although I loved the seventh book, don't get me wrong. I would've likec to have more of an ending, like what has happened in the seventeen years that passed in between?


message 10: by Kathy (new)

681853 I didn't thing there was anything cheesy about the last book! I thought it was great! Sure, I would've liked some more information at the end, but thats not my call, is it? I think it still leaves room for our imagination to wander a bit!


message 9: by Angie (new)

86285 I liked the ending. I liked how Harry and Draco acknowledged each other but yet you could tell they still weren't "friends". I like the fact we knew they were at a good point in their lives... and who knows, leaving the ending like that might open up a chance for more books (ok.. wishful thinking).


message 8: by Edith (new)

903706 If you all want to know so much about every little detail about the answers. Go to www.mugglenet.com, then join the mugglenet interactive.... it picks apart everything from all the books, in some places on mugglenet they show you the area where someone missed bad spots when they were proof reading...
Just to go mugglenet and check it out.



message 7: by Edith (new)

903706 I beleive if you read the last chapter again, where The parents were sending the kids off to Hogwarts... I does say something about what they are doing now.
Harry is an aborist, as he had aways wanted. And everyone else is what they wanted to be also. But in my mind I beleive nevelle has the best job of all... He is a teacher at Hogworts, teaching about the plants and what they do.

Does this help?


message 6: by Cliff (new)

746639 I thought the ending was well done. Of course we don't know what's happened to Harry & Crew after the final confrontation. But you know authors are great at coming back to what's made them famous. I think there will be more Harry books-hopefully!


message 5: by Nikki (new)

575042 I thought the epilogue was bad. Not that there was too much stuff left out, I just didn't think it was very well written. To me, it didn't sound like JK's voice.

Other than the epilogue however, I adored the last few chapters. Starting with the walk in the forbidden forest with his parents, Sirius and Lupin up to the final page was some of the best reading I remember doing in a LONG time. Listening to Jim Dale read those last few chapters on the audio recording is especially moving.


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