Finished book

[dumbledoresman7]

I was kind of dissappointed to find out that Dumbledore, who i thought was this benevolent ideal mentor with a penchant for sweets as his only flaw, was indeed a troubled individual who was power-hungry and once considered muggles to be inferior.
I understand that this is to make his character more human-like and rounded, but the fact that he was taking advantage of Harry's orphan predicament to motivate him to take down Voldemort and die in the process was hard for me to accept.
Although, in the fourth book when Rowling says that Dumbledore had a look of triumph in his eyes when Harry came back from the graveyard, this might mean that he knew Harry didnt have to die in the end.
I also always thought that perhaps the Dursleys wouldnt remain so naive and cruel right up through the end of the series. At least Dudley attemped to make up for all those years of torture, but his aunt and uncle? unnecessarily horrible people. I am glad thought that they were forced to move out of their house, uproot their lives, and never bother harry again.
All in all, i thoroughly enjoyed the book.

[Hodster]

The reason that JKR didn't go into detail about Lupin and Tonk's death is because Harry didn't see how they died.

[mizzPotter]

Im sure Bellatrix didn't die, she ran away.

I was upset over Snape dying, I always knew he was a goodie, and I was sad about Lupin, Tonks and Fred died too

mrs weasley killed belatrix

[mizzPotter]

did any one notice that tonks and lupin's son, teddy, was still going to hogwarts when he was 19, i thought that they finished at 17.

no! they come of age at 17 but they stay at school that's why in the last battle those of age stil stayed.

[mizzPotter]

Questions:

How did Dumbledore defeat Grindewald in a duel and take his wand when Grindewald was in possession of the elder wand that can never be defeated in a duel?

If Harry was the godfather of Ted Tonks, and both of Ted's parents died, why did Harry not care for the baby? We know that Ted did not live with Harry because in the last chapter of the book Harry says "He already comes round for dinner about four times a week. Why don't we just invite him to live with us and have done with it?"

If house elves can perform side-along apparation, and they can apparate into and out of Hogwarts, why has nobody ever used house elves to get into hogwarts? And, since house elves are known to have powerful magic abilities, why do they only attack the death eaters by stabbing their ankles?

What happened when Neville pulled Godric Griffindor's sword out of the sorting hat? Did it just disappear from the Goblin who thought that he owned it? I don't think a goblin would be too happy about that. AND, does anyone else think that it was a strange urge for Voldemort to go get that hat, and put it on Neville's head only to set him and the hat on fire? Why did he need the hat to do that?

This is not a question. But In my opinion, Ron and Hermione's trip to the chamber of secrets should have been left out. It is silly that Ron could suddenly speak Parslemouth, and the whole trip could have been avoided if the diadem and the cup had been destroyed by the fire instead of using a basilisk fang on the cup.

I understand that Malfoy unknowingly took possession of the elder wand when he disarmed Dumbledore in the sixth book. When Harry disarmed Malfoy, the wand became Harry's. But, it seems like a stretch that both of the wands that belonged to Malfoy would be Harry's and not just the wand that Malfoy had been carrying at the time he was disarmed.

What happened to the death eater's giants after the battle at Hogwarts? Was the out of control population of breeding dementors just rounded up and sent back to guard Azkaban even though dumbledore disapproved of using them in that way? Who became the permanent new minister of magic and headmaster at Hogwarts? What happened to Luna? Dursley's? Hermione's parents? Crookshanks? The Room of Requirement? The Weasley's Wizard Weezes???

It was cheesy that Harry, Ron, and Hermione flew out of Gringots on a dragon and landed safely in a pool, and Harry's out of body decision between life or death was made at kings cross station.

The sequel:::: :P

The goblin Griphook is angered because he believes that Harry stole back the sword that now belonged to him. He starts a revolt with other goblins who already dislike wizards for similar reasons. They steal Harry's wand (the elder wand) as payback for their stolen treasure. Well, there is the conflict anyway. I don't want to sort out a resolution. But... neither did JK Rowling! oOOooo. Just kidding I liked the book, but i was disappointed in the hasty way she resolved some of the problems.



oooh yea. The cover of the book. What is going on? My guess is that it is depicting the duel between voldemort and harry. Voldemort is falling to the ground, and harry is reaching to catch the elder wand.

teddy stayed with his grandmother which was tonks's mum as he wsa in her care during the battle.

[mizzPotter]

i was disappointed when dumbledore came to harry at charing cross. that was abith pathetic and i also think one of the malfoys should have been killed instead of fred.

[mizzPotter]

all the bits about dumbledores sister were irrelevant and confusing.

[Raach.16]

to most of these threads above, its all been answered previously...

[thetruemastermind]

here's a question that i have not quite been able to figure out by myself, so hopefully you all can help me...

Harry had become a 7th horcrux to voldemort, without either of their knowledge when voldemort tried killing him as a baby because his soul was already so weak and torn from before it easily broke again without his awareness...

but, as Harry and dumbledore and the rest of the gang found out, their are only a few ways of destroying a horcrux properly, and a killing curse was never mentioned as one of them.

how come then, voldemort was able to destroy his own horcrux in harry (that he did not even know existed) by hitting it with a killing curse???

was it because the curse was extended from the elder wand? but even still that doesnt seem logical because it was still voldemort issuing teh spell and not the wands rightful inherited owner harry...

anyways, if a simply killing curse could destroy a horcrux in a living being.... why did neville have to pull the sword of gryffindor randomly out of the sorting hat to kill Nagini... he could have just used a killing curse and spared us the dramatics and the mystery of how the hat had the sword from the goblin in the first place...

[TheKingsDaddy]

I believe that Harry was not a horcrux in the sense that all the other horcruxes were. The others most likely had very strong enchantments and curses placed on them by voldemort. And the way to destroy a horcrux is to destroy the physical object that encases it. By using the killing curse on Harry that is what voldemort did.