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Yeah, but it's the Deluminator. It takes away light. It should make you LOST. Heh.
Actually - it seems to store light until you put it back... so maybe it is all kinds of light?
I've been going with the basic assumption that the books are targetted at a readership basically Harry's age
I think a little younger, but I'll be honest, I found that I felt the same way about the romance novels that I read that I did about fairy tales. I wanted to know what happened to them after happily ever after. thinking about it a little more - I think 12- 14 is the idea age for book 7.
I was all "Happy? Check. Where's the next book?" The details of said happiness and the names of their bundles of joy interested me not one whit.
I liked the HEA epilogue just because it demonstrated that life goes on, even for heroes who save the world. It reminded me a lot of the end of LotR, which gave Sam that happy ending. But, it left a lot of open questions, which I liked better than having a bow tied around the finale and gift-wrapped for the reader.
Then again, I was a fan of the "what happened to Hester Prynne" ending of The Scarlet Letter, so at least I'm consistent!
I didn't much care for the epilouge. Would have cared more if it had answered the burning question of where Luna ended up.
I sort of hope that Luna is the Care of Magical Creatures professor, and that she's telling the students all about how to avoid nargles.
It makes sense to me that he was the easier target for the Horcrux.
Then too, his sister Ginny already fell before a previous horcrux, so it could be something that runs through the Weasley family that makes them more likely to be targets than not.
All told, I did expect WORSE from the deaths.
I think in the end, the bodycount was 50, which seemed rather low, considering the Deatheaters were flinging about killing curses (or maybe I'm just assuming they were).
wonders outloud
Whatever happened to Fawkes?
