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voldermort comes bak 2 life after 3 yrs, umbridge and lucius bring him bak. then he dusnt come 2 power but mangaes 2 kill ron b4 proffessor mcgonagal kills him with the killing curse. then a few yrs later, all the death eaters are dead and hermione ends up finding the ressurection stone.

I think it is a shame that J K R did not put Harry Ron's and Hermoine's jobs in the ending. I thought the saddest part was the death of Lupin and his wife after the birth of their baby boy. Wonder who the baby Teddy's girlfried Victoire was at the end, perhaps Bill's daughter (therefore niece of Ron and Ginny) don't remember the exact explaination of who she was and/or her birth.

By the way did anyone else notice when Harry visits his parents grave/s how young they were when they were killed (when Harry was 1 year old). As I think Harry was supposed to be about 17 or 18 at that stage, the story would have occurred in the late 1990,s according to my calculations but maybe I am wrong.

Happy Monday, everyone. I spent part (ok, most) of the weekend rereading the book. Anyone who can read the "King's Cross" chapter towards the end and think that JK Rowling isn't religious really isn't paying attention. I really liked the symbolism of the "abandoned infant" which was what Voldemort actually was from the start.

An unloved abandoned baby. More thoughts about Snape. He was a neglected child, and to me, it is obvious that his interest in "the Dark Arts" was to compensate for his feelings of inadequacy by dreams of power. The difference is that Snape had one connection to life through his friendship and love for Lily and that made all the difference. He was still an unhappy and miserable person, but he managed to make choices that were for the good because he had one experience of being loved.

Rereading the book, what occured to me was that JK Rowling was just trying to keep too many balls in the air at once, in terms of all the plot elements. The Horcruxes were enough without throwing in the Hallows. There were too many pages of explanations (or exposition) in the midst of the action which basically felt to me like she was dropping the balls she was juggling and then picking them up while dropping new ones, and it definitely detracted from the forward momentum of the book. But, her flaws as a writer don't prevent this from being a wonderful series.