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Finally finished reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Some of you might say: "What a load of old rubbish. Who reads sh!t like that?" like Grandpa does or perhaps even claim it's evil because it talks about witchcraft and wizardry like the Catholics (not all, this is a generalization). The new pope redeemed himself slightly when he said that Harry Potter wasn't that bad after all, since some of the main themes are friendship, loyalty and good vs evil. He was on such a good path that I thought that he would apologize for what the Catholic church did to all those who maintained the earth were round. Of course he quickly assumed his prior "form" when he proclaimed that abortion should be made illegal. What people forget is, is that the witchcraft is not important. It's a façade. Voldemort's ideas are like Hitlers: both wanted something they did not have; Hitler: a pure, intelligent, beautiful race. He himself did not correspond to his own ideal of tall, blond and blue-eyed. He was also part-Jewish. Furthermore he was not even German, but Austrian AND possibly infertile! Voldemort: Pure race. He was a Half-Blood. In fact both wanted something more: Hitler wanted a race to dominate all (so basically world-domination) and Voldemort wanted immortality. Both had an army to do their bidding. Hitler: SS (Schutzstaffel) and Nazis; Voldemort: Death Eaters and SS who in this case is ONE person. It would have been difficult to explain Harry's survival and Voldemort's destruction without introducing magic. Harry could have been Jewish and Hitler came to kill him, but how would his mother's sacrifice have saved him in real life? If Hitler had tried to shoot him and the bullet somehow missed Harry and rebounded on him, he would have been killed or gravely injured. People have to see past the magic and look at the messages the book gives: love thy neighbour, fight for what you believe in, have faith, friendship, trust, good vs evil, etc... It was intended to be a children's book and can hardly qualify as a fairy story since there are only about two mentions of fairies in the whole book. There are however dragons, elves, giants, Kneazles and other fictional figures. Even though the book may lack the quality and writing style of the great authors it is however binding and JKR deserves a lot of credit because she achieved all her fame through the power of imagination and creativity. Also her book is one of the rare ones, in which the characters grow and change. That is very rare in children's books such as the "Famous Five" or "Secret Seven" the characters remain immortally young. Also she killed some of her characters off, which gives the story realism. Her characters aren't fully good or bad, which gives them more depth.

Some of the theories about Snape and Harry were true: Harry WAS a Horcrux and he marries Ginny (and doesn't die) and Snape DID love Lily and was kinda good.
I must say I was skeptical about Harry being a Horcrux, because I didn't know how he could destroy himself and that would mean that he would have to die and that JKR would never dare kill Harry unless she was suicidal.
Snape: I was a big supporter of that theory and there were many clues: for one his worst memory wasn't THAT bad. Shouldn't his worst have been his first murder? Betraying the Potters? Living with his parents? I mean sure he was humiliated in front of the some class mates, but there is worse than that. Lily was there and tried to defend him and he insulted her rather badly and she was very offended. The reason for which he hated Harry so much was because: he looked like his father, but had his mother's eyes. It must have been hell seeing someone who resembled a person he loathed profoundly and looking into those eyes, which were not unlike the ones he had looked into so many times and would nevermore look into again. He blamed Harry for Lily's death. He couldn't look past the physical appearance and so with couldn't let go of his hatred.
The theory that Snape killed Dumbledore on the latter's orders is also true. The look of "hatred and revulsion that were etched into the harsh lines of his face" were indeed self-hatred and self-revulsion as we had previously seen on Harry's face as he was forcing Dumbledore to drink that green jelly. Someone watching would not know whether he hated Dumblie or himself and since the reader sees everything from Harry's point of view and we were made to believe that Snape was bad, we were led to believe that he really did hate Dumblie. He would never plead for his life, that is below Dumblie; he was asking Snape to kill him as he had promised. Of course he was not ENTIRELY good, but nobody is. Look at Sirius. Saying that one has to let go of hatred and such, but he himself did nothing of the sort.
She killed Snape off, but he did deserve it.
The bit were Harry goes to a kind of heaven (he's naked in the beginning, that's probably why Dan R took on that role on stage [where he was naked]; he was practicing :-P for this scene) is slightly weird. Lupin and Tonk's death is sad. Their son will have to be raised by his grandmother like Neville was. Talking of Neville: wonder who he married. Luna? Lavender? Maybe Dean married Luna. What happened to Neville's grandmother? Did she make it? What happened to Trelawny? I still would like to know whether the predictions Trelawny made about Hermione leaving and Lavender's rabbit dying were luck or whether she actually predicted them. What other things apart from food can't you magic? Probably money and housing. Something to drink (unless that goes in the same category as food) and possibly a spouse, love, friendship and such; you'd need a potion or whatever. What happened to Fleur and Bill? Do they have kids? It would be nice to know what happened to the other characters. Did Ron, Hermione and Harry finish their education? If so, what jobs do they have now? Could Harry have become and auror or are they no longer needed? Where does HP live? London? Godrick's Hollow? How was Hogwarts re-built?
The story was good, but relatively long and sort of repetitive especially about how they were stuck, hungry, lost and Harry's feelings towards Ginny etc... The ending was good and the story really did play in the past, which means the film makers slightly screwed up, 'cos it plays in the early '90s, so they should have used more of a '90 style haircut and cars etc... Oh well. Sad it's finished, but it ended well. What do y'all think?