Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
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I just finished it. Started it last night around 11, read until 3, woke up at 10:30, and now is all done. And I'm sad the series is done and yet so glad that the ending was happy.
The death that hit me the hardest was actual Fred's. Don't know why--they all stung, but that one especially.
Yes, it dragged in parts, but honestly? How much can I complain about dragging when I couldn't stop reading? Loved it.
I'm evil in that I'm kind of pleased one of the twins got it, because I despise practical jokers and they got away with too darned much that was cruel and hurtful.
Jilli - it's "One Big Happy Weasley Family", it basically means an ending with Harry/Ginny and Ron/Hermione.
I did think giving Draco a receding hairline at thirty-six was a little spiteful.
Heh. But I have friends (shit, *I'm* 36, and I haven't learned one single spell!) that age who already have receding hairlines. Not, like, slightly, but rapidly fleeing.
Just finished. Am spent. I cried when all the dead were laid in the Great Hall, and the Weasleys were around Fred, and then Harry noticed Lupin and Tonks. But then I pulled myself together, but then Harry left, and asked Neville to kill Nagini if no one else was able to, and I started up again, and then when Harry used the Resurrection Stone, I pretty much sobbed until not!dead naked Harry woke up in...well, in his own brain, I suppose.
And I got teary again at the very end, just because....it's over.
More to say later.
Jilli - it's "One Big Happy Weasley Family", it basically means an ending with Harry/Ginny and Ron/Hermione.
Huh. Go fandom and its acronyms for everything, then! I'm okay with the notion of OBHWF, because it satisfies my not-so-secret addictions to happy endings.
I was thinking about Snape's death, and it dawned on me that his asking Harry to look at him as he died was so he could see Lily's eyes one last time. Oh Sev, you poor poor thing.
it dawned on me that his asking Harry to look at him as he died was so he could see Lily's eyes one last time.
I just replied to your comment about this in Fay's LJ -- that didn't even occur to me when I read it, but OF COURSE.
And the thing is, Snape felt all betrayed when he found out that he was helping keep Harry safe *seemingly* to be sacrificed, and then Harry got to pull an Aslan and come back, and Snape never even knew that Lily's son made it after all.
Poor Snape.
But I have friends (shit, *I'm* 36, and I haven't learned one single spell!) that age who already have receding hairlines.
Oh, me too. But, you know, Ron didn't have a receding hairline, Ginny didn't have extra baby weight left over. Or maybe they did, but Rowling didn't find it worth mentioning. I'm not really upset about it, just thought it was a bit mean. Funny, but mean.
Poor Snape.
See? This is what I'm saying! He doesn't even get to know they won, or anything! Dammit.
Well, presumably in whatever afterlife we get to see Dumbledore et al in, Snape gets to find out that it did all work out OK.
I liked the observation that Draco had a receding hairline. The story is still being told from Harry's point of view, and that's exactly the kind of detail Harry would notice and feel smug about. There are aspects of being in high school that you never quite recover from.