I cant believe the series is over! It was particularly a dramatic finish… nope not coz of the events in the book(we shall get to that) but the amazing fun it was running around and getting my hands on the book :) (More on that later… if I get time and the mood to talk about it)
Lets just dive into my review of the book
The book ends finally the 7 year journey of Harry Potter through school, friends and foes, memories, victories, defeats, freedom and the hunt for the killer of his parents. Parts of the book were brilliantly engrossing… The conversations and the fights were very well portrayed and were well above my expectations. The Darkness in the book was terribly depressing… I had a few smiles, a fewer laughs and unfortunately a bit more gasps than the other books.
The fact that JKR brought back so many of the items, people and situations from the previous six books back into focus was brilliant. They fitted in like the perfect pieces of a puzzle but sadly that meant that there were sacrifices elsewhere :( I shall visit them one by one…
Great:
* Dobby… I love that elf *sniff*
* Kretcher’s story of RAB… Had me totally engrossed!
* The Price’s Tale… The story of the man everyone had learnt to hate :)
* Harry and Ginny… The chemistry was brilliant. Even in words it was awesomely shown!
* Neville Longbottom finally got his due…
* The finale between Harry and Voldemort was spectacular… The moment Harry called him ‘Tom’ Adrenaline just flooded my body
Good:
* Bellatrix’s parts… They stood up and took notice for some reason. I was like ‘something is gonna happen for sure now… She is in this part of the book’ :P
* Ron and Hermoine… Blimey that was awesome ;)
* The Hallows themselves were an amazing direction for the story
* Dumbeldore-Snape understanding was well put.
* Subtle comedy in Fred and George, PotterWatch and few Ron based smart cracks… Neville added to the fun
Acceptable:
* King’s Cross… For a sec I was the wtf but then it all just slowly made sense
* The whole Elder Wand business… Felt it was being pushed down our throats… But the finale made up for all the Wand talk.
Bad:
* Dumbeldore’s past… I wanted to know about the man but half a book on it!!! I felt most parts were a drag in the first half
* Hedwig’s death… Extra luggage! lets get rid of the pet first.
* Lupin and Tonk’s death… This was almost sidelined like they were nobody… I would not have minded Cho/Patil sisters/Dean or someone knocked off like that but not these two :(
JKR how could you…
* Write an Epilogue like that! That was IMHO the worst chapter you have penned in the seven books!
In the end this book was probably worth all the hoopla :P I still feel 6th was my most favorite but considering that this was the last of the series, it served its purpose.