To River: I was thinking the exact same thing... I wonder why she put it in there though... she didn’t really need to... I don’t know. Maybe I am wrong. But I guess we are supposed to draw our own conclusions for alot of things... thik how they all ended uo together and what happened during those 19 years... It is all up to the reader I guess...   posted Jul 25, 2007 at 2:21PM

I was (surprisingly) happy that Snape was a "good" but seriously misled character in the end. I liked the memories that showed Harry that not everyone was perfect (his dad and Dumbledore for example) and you just have to be able to accept what they became and not what they had done... I thought that it was a good thing to see the "bad" daring side of dumbledore so that you knew that he wasn’t this perfect genious and that even though he was intoxicated and obsessed with power, he knew that he couldn’t weild power and do good. I have been thinking about the epilogue and have realized that even though it really is what I wanted and still like... I almost think that they are too happy and that life is soo good that it just doesn’t seem real (even if it is a book about magic). In a way it kind of spoiled it. But... maybe not. Who knows, I will read it a few more times and then really decide. Hope that you all enjoyed the the series as much as I did.   posted Jul 23, 2007 at 2:23PM