Finally it is done. Harry Potter is finished… well… not quite… but you get the drift dont you? 
I have completed the 7th and final Harry Potter book. Ultimately, I quite liked the book, even though I had previously referred to it as boring. Of course, I still will not deny that the first half of the book was very dry and I think JKR could have done better there.
Lets get on with some things about the book that I like and dont like. Of course these would be spoilers so lets keep them behind a cut.
Lets face it. JKR has lost her magic. She doesn’t write the way she used to do before. Her writing is not captivating enough. But she still has managed to churn out a good ending without screwing up the series big time.
Somehow, I was expecting this ending book to be something like the ending of Matrix, with bits and pieces of philosophy thrown in and I was damn right. My god, she really didn’t have to rip the train station scene out of Matrix. She could have very well done that in her own words, but no. The Kings Cross station, drenched in white(I’m not sure now if she wrote that but I sure well imagined it to be that), serene and with one bench. The place where the soul separated from the body goes to decide what it wants to do next. God. Even the line were ripped off. HP: “So, how do I go back?”. AD: “You can take a train…”. Sheesh.
Anyway, most of the story did make sense to me unlike some people I know who thought that there wree some gaps and loopholes in the book after they had finished the full book. Of course many characters’ stories were left dangling but there were no gaps. Open ends yes, but no gaps and that could be all what JKR could have done. I think somehow she was pushed into writing this book and releasing it in June 2007 and hence did a hotchpotch job.
Another thing that I think could be improved was the last scene where HP finishes off Voldemort. Somehow, the scene did not evoke any sense of passion or feelings as I would have expected it to. Especially after what chandrahasa wrote in his entry. I expected a fierce HP but the words didn’t really reflect the emotions. Damp Squib IMHO.
And now to the last chapter. Almost everyone I heard from felt it sucks. I too felt it was so sucky when I heard what would happen. But now I feel differently. I did very much like it, if not love it. It gives you the feeling that alls well that ends well. It shows that the evil has been finished off and now everything is at peace and life is going on as usual. It shows the next generation coming up. The kids still fear Slytherin though Harry tried his best to being Slytherin in good light. Kids of best friends and hated enemies are almost the same age and are now and are going to school together. They are going to live and spend their lives together in the wake of what their parents left for them. If you put yourself into the shoes of the actors then you will see the beauty in that chapter. I loved it. Of course I would have preferred the first kid to be named Albus Severus and the more Harry-lookalike kid to be named James(but that debatable. Who came first, who should have been named what first, who that looks like whom should have been named what, etc etc etc). But I would definitely have preferred Ron’s kid Hugo to be named Fred instead. That would have been more fitting. What the hell is Hugo and Rose??? Some pun on the Titanic movie, what?
PS: I found this information on another site. If there was anything pricking me, it was who is Victorie. This answers it beautifully.
Victoire is most likely Fleur and Bill’s daughter. She would be the right age (at maximum 18, especially since James reports Teddy has come to see her off, making him finished with school at 19 or 20) and Lily notes that if Teddy marries Victoire then he would really be a member of the family since Victoire would be her cousin.
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JKR’s post Deathly Hallows interview -> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19959323/
JKR’s post Deathly Hallows interview -> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19959323/
cool. thanks. hope it makes for some good reading. I tried looking up some xtra stuff on her site, but there is really nothing interesting there… or its too hard to find in that mess.
cool. thanks. hope it makes for some good reading. I tried looking up some xtra stuff on her site, but there is really nothing interesting there… or its too hard to find in that mess.