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One thing I love about living right next to the District is that I can read on my way to work. It only gets tricky when I nearly miss my stop.
I got all emotional at the end of this one, which I hadn't expected. Then I remembered that I hadn't read this one as recently as the others in the series. My Spanish copy of Book 6 went missing when I'd only read half, so it's been several years since I read the final chapters. The corpses under water were suitably creepy, but I do wonder if JK conciously stole them from Tolkein. I also wonder why she didn't just call them "zombies." English (by way of African languages) has a perfectly good word for reanimated corpses, so why make up a new one? Maybe because "real" zombies operate of their own "free will," so to speak, while these were totally under Voldemorts control?
Harry irritated me for almost half of this book. I can understand why, in order to give him more dramatic growth, JK needed him to stay a bit immature here, but holy cow is he full of himself sometimes. He really needs the learn the hard way in Book 7 that he's just not always right about lots of things, before he stops and listens to people. Honestly, I skimmed over most of the "stalking Draco" parts, because it just gets so old. At this point in re-reading the series, if he and Draco aren't having sex, I don't really care to read about the obsession.
The Ron/Hermione romance works perfectly here. Hermione annoys me sometimes in the same way Harry does - she just won't let things go, but she and Ron work so well together. Their relationship is far from perfect, but the portrayal is. They see the worst in each other, and still love and forgive in the end. Harry/Ginny, on the other hand... well, it works okay here. She's a great, strong character, and I love reading her. Which is one reason I don't see her and Harry working long term. She just deserves better. She hated it when Dean kept trying to help her, which is exactly what Harry does all the time - he's constantly trying to protect her, "forbidding" her from getting involved. She would never stand for all that for long.
At first I couldn't figure out why Dumbledore didn't tell anyone else why he trusted Snape, or at least give them a clue as to what the two of them had worked out. But of course, if any of them were captured, the whole ruse would be up, and Snape's purpose blown. For a moment, I almost feel sorry for Snape. Then I remember that he's an asshole.
I got all emotional at the end of this one, which I hadn't expected. Then I remembered that I hadn't read this one as recently as the others in the series. My Spanish copy of Book 6 went missing when I'd only read half, so it's been several years since I read the final chapters. The corpses under water were suitably creepy, but I do wonder if JK conciously stole them from Tolkein. I also wonder why she didn't just call them "zombies." English (by way of African languages) has a perfectly good word for reanimated corpses, so why make up a new one? Maybe because "real" zombies operate of their own "free will," so to speak, while these were totally under Voldemorts control?
Harry irritated me for almost half of this book. I can understand why, in order to give him more dramatic growth, JK needed him to stay a bit immature here, but holy cow is he full of himself sometimes. He really needs the learn the hard way in Book 7 that he's just not always right about lots of things, before he stops and listens to people. Honestly, I skimmed over most of the "stalking Draco" parts, because it just gets so old. At this point in re-reading the series, if he and Draco aren't having sex, I don't really care to read about the obsession.
The Ron/Hermione romance works perfectly here. Hermione annoys me sometimes in the same way Harry does - she just won't let things go, but she and Ron work so well together. Their relationship is far from perfect, but the portrayal is. They see the worst in each other, and still love and forgive in the end. Harry/Ginny, on the other hand... well, it works okay here. She's a great, strong character, and I love reading her. Which is one reason I don't see her and Harry working long term. She just deserves better. She hated it when Dean kept trying to help her, which is exactly what Harry does all the time - he's constantly trying to protect her, "forbidding" her from getting involved. She would never stand for all that for long.
At first I couldn't figure out why Dumbledore didn't tell anyone else why he trusted Snape, or at least give them a clue as to what the two of them had worked out. But of course, if any of them were captured, the whole ruse would be up, and Snape's purpose blown. For a moment, I almost feel sorry for Snape. Then I remember that he's an asshole.
