Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows question

One thing: don't kill Sirius.

Not a single word.

I would change Dobby's death. It is sooo sad and Dobby he deserved more than that! It was sorta planned..because he was so determined to be "faithful" to Harry..Poor guy :'(

I would have the abilities and limitations of the magic established a little better. And I would probably completely get rid of the Time Turner for that reason. How many things would be different if they'd held onto it?
Don't get me wrong, I LOVED book 3 and wouldn't want to change it. But there is no excuse (not to mention how flimsy the one in the book is) not to make better use of it. That item on its own is powerful enough to be a major component of the entire series. Even one of the hallows.

Likewise I would tidy up the plot of Goblet for exactly that reason. Far too many plot devices. Why does Voldemorte choose to get at Harry that way? Why does it take exactly a school year? Too inconsistent.

Otherwise I adore everything. Maybe at the end of book 7 I'd rename the chapter "The Forest Again" as "The Close" but that might ruin the reading experience since you get to come to the same conclusion with Harry as the thoughts pass through his mind. That slow build is what makes the chapter so good to so tip off the reader with the name of the chapter would be cruel. So yeah, I guess I probably wouldn't even change that.

Here me rant!
I would change basically all the deaths. I know they are important to the story, but I grew up with them. When they were ripped away from me, I felt as if I had lost my best friends, because I remember growing up, and being the same age as the twins, and I would go to school, pretending I had just pranked Flich with them. And, Dumbledore, when ever I went to my counselor, I pretended she was Dumbledore, and I was telling him all my problems. Dobby. . .I pretended that my cleaning lady/maid/whatever you would call her was Dobby. I remember giving her a pair of pants that I had outgrown and said, "Be free! I give you clothes." I pretended I helped Snape with Professor Lupin's potion, and I felt Lupin was my godfather, too. Tonks, I didn't know her much, but Lupin was happy with her, and that is what mattered to me. And, Sirius. I pretended that I was there with Harry, helping save him from the Dementors. I pretended that I was there when he was meeting up with "Wormtail". And Snape, with his monotone voice, and (my now favorite number) 394. Snape was never a bad guy, and should have never died. In my heart, he is still the potions master at Hogwarts.

So, in conclusion, I would have preferred the deaths differently.

What I wold like to change is that snape ended up with liley but the intire story wold be deferent so I am a bit mixed up

I'd keep either Lupin, Tonks, or Fred alive.

The relationship between Harry and Ginny (yuck), especially when you saw her in the movie (played by Bonnie Wright). Harry deserves better!

I'd like to change the end of the movie. It was too childish for me. I mean after all the things that Harry went through just to escape death! And every time Harry got older, the challenges became harder. That's why it was kinda disappointing to have it end like that. So simple.

Dumbledor (I think thats how you spell it) would live! ;(

Keep Fred alive!!!

Poor Sirius wouldn't die. He would lead a great adventurous life helping the order of the Phoenix save the world from voldermort and then he would settle down and be able to live the last half of his life happily. The poor man just had shit his whole life!!! His whole existance was I pleasant except for when he had either James or harry potter. I have never felt worse than when he died. I literally through the book across the room and proceeded to bawl.... why why!!!!
Anyway that is what I would change, ever other death made sense except for that one.

I can safely say I wouldn't change a single word of those books. JKR is one of the very few writers I can say that about. The series is sacred as far as I'm concerned and it would be an absolute travisty to change anything. I know it can be hard when your favorite characters die, and I too was devastated about Fred, but to keep them all alive would just be playing it safe and that would make for a really boring series indeed.


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I would let Dobby survive. I sobbed! That was just so hard and cruel.

I would make it more obvious that Sirius and Remus were a couple.

I did love the books as they were. However, I still would have preferred that Sirus did not die. Harry had already lost his parents, all his blood family (Dursley's do not count), he would loose Lupin, Dumbledor, Tonks, Fred, Dolby, and countless of others. I think he deserve to at least have Sirus, someone who was tied to all that he had lost.

- I wish Fred and Sirius were still alive
- Nevil and Luna should have married each other
- I wish the series didn't end :(

My first instinct when I read this was to mention about twenty of the deaths that happened, but then I realized...no. I mean, it simply wouldn't be realistic. There has to be some grief, some way to relate. I think I would Have Harry and Ginny become great friends. I feel like they would've had such a great relationship: They were both touched by Voldemort's evil, they have a lot of similarities personality-wise...Also, Ginny was just sort of shunted aside after CoS, with no mention of how the Chamber affected her. It bothered me a great deal, honestly... I also would have wanted Harry to take control of his life more - train, research, leave those damn Dursleys, and put a stop to all the people who were manipulating him.

I truly loved the Harry Potter series, but don't tell me its not fun to imagine what might have happened. :)

I was never able to figure out Gilderoy Lockhart. Surely Dumbledore knew he was a fraud, so why bring him to the school? Every other professor served a purpose toward the defeat of Voldemorte even if it was not immediately apparent (Trelawney). I would have given some purpose to him.

If I could only change one thing, then I would keep Hedwig alive. I thought that part was SO mean, she never did anything wrong, and she was so loyal.

I really wouldn't change a thing, because the Harry Potter series is a work of art. But if I had to, I would change it so that Fred, Tonks and Lupin all survived.

The Harry-Ginny relationship. It just seemed like it was tacked on as an afterthought -- as if Harry *had* to have a girlfriend, and well, it might as well be Ginny.

The Ron-Hermione relationship is a very close second. Talk about awkward.

The ending. It's incredible that Rowling has gone too far with killing many characters and in the end she spared the main characters' lives. Either Harry or Neville would have died.

Even I felt that some facts like Harry marrying Ginny were things proposed by fans.

-Fred's death
-Luna and Harry together
-Malfoys acting more heroic (ok, I know Narcissa lied to V. about Harry being death, and at M. manor Draco knew he was it, but they could be more action, you know)
-NO epilog. maybe somebody's wedding after a year, but hell, no 20 years, god....
-Harry and Ginny kiss never happening. that was soo awkward.
-about a milion little things.


But if only ONE, then Fred!!

It would be better if Draco do something different and brave. I'm so sick to see how coward he is until the end. I mean, i love Draco! JK Rowling should develop his character better. And i think Draco-Hermione would make a better couple than Ron-Hermione. In real life, things so much more complicated.

And i absolutely agree that 19 years later part shouldn't be exist. It would be better if we could use our imagination to end that story.

I WOULDN'T CHANGE A THING! J.K. Rowling has great reasoning for every little death, every little life, every little detail. Its all so perfect. If these things were changed that you guys would all be complaining that they should be back to normal. Every death was there for a reason. War is about losing loved ones in the process and it all ends. If Harry would have died, that would have been awful. Good always prevails over evil and it did so. This series was absolutely perfect and I would NEVER even dream of changing one little word of it. Never. Ever. Thank you so much J.K Rowling for creating our childhoods.

1. Reduced body count. I get that it's war and you couldn't have everyone survive, but some deaths were gratuitous. Lupin and Tonks were major characters, and killing them "off-screen," so to speak, was uncalled for. They deserved better. And I understand Harry didn't need the owl anymore, but THAT was just too cruel.
2. Malfoys should have done more to deserve their redemption, esp. Draco.

I didn't have a problem with an epilogue. When you stick with the characters for this long, you deserve to know what happened to everyone in the long run.

No Fred dying. :(

Nothing. Just nothing. Yeah, people died, but would it really be interesting if they didn't? Its part of what makes Harry Potter the phenomenon that it is.

I would change the few things in Sorcerers Stone that don't really match up with the internal logic/chronology of the story laid out in latter books. Like the comments about Professor Quirrel having had the Defense about the Dark Arts job for more than one year

Snape would live.

don't let sirius die

Harry's obnoxious mood swings. I understand that his life was extremely complicated, but he reminded me of a teenage girl at times.

Snape dying and the whole hermoine-ron thing...somehow it never felt right... and it got pretty annoying especially in the fourth and sixth books where they pretty much hated on each other...

Keep Fred alive!!!!

nothing to change, but i wished that Snape could have got a decent burial.

The ending, i felt it was too happy and i hated the 19 years later part. I wanted Harry and Voldermort to kill each other.

No friggin' Horcruxes.