Well this is it! Last book now... Is anyone still with us on the reread??
Well this is the thread for the last book. Anything you want to say, complain about, or express love for can be done here!!

You know, I used to think that this book was just a big information dump about Dumbledore. But reading it again...I like it much better this time around. I just love where the characters have ended up (minus the dead ones) and how everything worked out in the end. Even though I'm not quite to the end. Maybe I'll understand the King's Cross chapter this time around...

Well, I'll post...

I did enjoy the re-read of DH. This was my 4th time through it. Whenever I think about DH, for some reason I always look at it as one huge camping trip, but then when I read it I realize there is so much more to it than that.

The two things in the book that I find hard to believe relate to Ron-Harry-Hermione and their camping trip. First, I can't believe in 4 months neither Harry nor Hermione ever said Ron's name once he had left the group. And second, I can't believe that in those 4 months neither Harry nor Hermione ever said "Voldemort". I mean, if they had gotten used to always saying "you-know-who" then Harry shouldn't have said it when they got caught. I'm just sayin'.

Well now that I've finished it...I still didn't quite get the point of the King's Cross chapter. Oh well.

It kind of bugs me when people say it's just a big camping trip and all Ron does is complain the whole time. I swear there's so many different interpretations of these books that sometimes I swear everyone has a different version...

You know...I think that Ron was such a touchy subject, Harry avoided it with a little too much effort. Course, I don't really get how you can go 4 months (was it really that long?) without mentioning one of your best friends/crush even as an accident. Wait...did Ron only hear them talking once and then figure out it was the Deluminator? (sp?) Or did he hear them a couple of times? Good thing I just read this...

I think I'm wrong in guessing it was 4 months... I had put Ron's leaving at sometime in late fall (since he was not there at Christmas, and he had been gone for a while by then) and thought he had come back during Easter break, but that was when they were captured, so perhaps it was just 2 or 3 months... but still, that's a long time to not say someone's name. I think when Hermione mentioned Ron's name in talking about the broken wand was the first time it was mentioned that we knew about.

Yes, I too am guilty of referring to DH as the never-ending camping trip. But when I do my re-reads I realize how much more is in the story. Granted, they are on the run from early September until when they get caught at Easter break, so that's 6 or 7 months that they are "camping". The book is so long, you tend to imagine that all it's about is the camping trip, but there ARE so many other parts to it and it's important to remember that.

I think the "Kings Cross" part is, as DD told Harry, what Harry thought it was, as it was Harry's images. Harry thought it reminded him of a train station, like Kings Cross. I think, because of Harry and LV having a bit of each other living within the other (Harry's scar containing parts of LV and LV having Harry's blood from the spell in GoF) that it tied them together and thus Harry wasn't able to be killed by the AK. I think the Kings Cross was the "in between" place of the afterlife. Harry could choose to go on (and die) or go back (and live), it's just how Harry pictured it in his mind. I'm sure he could have pictured it as the Great Hall or the Gryffindor Common Room or any other place, but to him it was Kings Cross.

And the ugly baby at Kings Cross is the maimed part of LV's soul. In my opinion, that part of the soul would have died whatever Harry had chosen to do (return to life or go on to death), since the AK had been used, it was probably powerful enough to kill it.

This is officially my new favorite book in the series. Many questions were answered (Was Snape good or bad? Why was Petunia so anti-magic?), but there were a lot of questions I still had that went unanswered. That's a whole different thread, but all in all, I'd have to say, after reading it again, it's definitely my favorite (although it's also the one that brings me to tears the most often!)

I liked it when i first started to read it, but then I felt a little disappointed at my first re-read.

I don't know why but I was confused about all the things at DoM, isn't that going to play a bigger part? Second of all, i liked the atomsphere of 'school' at Hogwarts more. Third of all... i don't know but the camping seemed a little too much. And I didn't see Hallows coming in the last book. I guess Jo could have left a little more clues about the Hallows...

Anyway, that's my two cents.