<p>i think they could get away with a PG-13 movie...</p>
<p>...but yeah, it would have to be really long, which means they'll probably leave a lot of stuff out.</p>
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<p>i actually enjoyed it. You have to be familiar with the Bible's story of Kane and Able though, i think.</p>
<p>and besides, if that's what you got from post 17, you don't have much to brag about for having good comprehension of reading tastes.</p>
<p>I thought some of the scenes in the tent were getting a bit monotonous... constantly bickering.. i just wanted them to move on. but overall i loved it and now i have nothing to live for.</p>
<p>The best book by far. Sooooooo good, I loved the Horcrux hunt. I thought there would be a lot more revelations, but that's how it always feels with series like this. </p>
<p>It's too bad I had dismissed the Harry is a Horcrux theory (making it a lot harder to believe the real book now haha, kind of sad), and the Snape loving Lily thing was pretty predictable (that's why it was so important Harry had Lily's eyes??? I was expecting something huge.)</p>
<p>Did anybody else notice all the unanswered questions/promises: Someone manages to perform magic late in life (it wasn't Ron, because he wasn't speaking Parseltongue, he was imitating Harry), the Potter parents' jobs are important, she definitely hinted that there was a type of magic that you could only do with your eyes! The lies...</p>
<p>Oh, and she definitely once said that once a secret keeper dies that secret dies with them. And now she contradicted herself very much. </p>
<p>By the way, JK Rowling, you don't kill one twin and you don't kill a little camera-wielding disciple who had no reason to die. Shame on you.</p>
<p>Setting aside the little disappointments, I loved it.</p>
<p>W00T? What happened? Harry used Expelliaramus and Voldy just croaked? :D Did V's spell rebound or something?</p>
<p>Yeah, Voldemort's spell rebounded off of Harry's spell.</p>
<p>How anticlimactic. :D I was expecting a storm of AKs and Cruciuses; a bit more dramatic battle. Shouldn't Voldy's AK be much more powerful than Harry's Expelliaramus? If both spells struck each other, then shouldn't the AK have been able to withstand the force of H's E? The greatest dark wizard of all time, vanquished with a simple Expelliaramus? </p>
<p>Also, when V died, shouldn't Harry have felt [excruciating] pain?</p>
<p>Voldemort's AK wasn't very strong because he cast it with a wand that belonged to Harry...</p>
<p>...And Harry felt no pain because he and Voldemort are no longer connected because Voldemort killed the part of him that was in Harry.</p>
<p>Harry had the Elder wand so he would've won anyways because the elder wand was Malfoy's wand which he won from him</p>
<p>^he didn't have the elder wand until after the AK and expelliarmus. The elder wand BELONGED to harry, but voldy was using it. harry had malfoy's wand, but he'd taken it, so the wand worked for him.</p>
<p>Hm... </p>
<p>I was sad about Voldemort death. :D</p>
<p>Cause you ugly, you ugly, yo mama says you ugly.</p>
<p>Wow... When you read these posts, it's obvious that a lot of people totally missed the most important parts of the book.</p>
<p>Malfoy's wand was the Elder Wand.</p>
<p>No wonder everyone read it in one day.</p>
<p>No... Dumbledore's wand was the Elder Wand. Wasn't it?</p>
<p>^page 742 says "the elder wand recognized a new master before dumbledore died, someone who never even laid a hand on it. the newer mast... [is] Draco Malfoy"
so Draco NEVER had the elder wand, so how could the wand Harry took from Draco be the elder wand? :confused:</p>
<p>okay what happened is that whenever anyone defeats a wizard (through murder, duel, etc) they also take that wizard's wand. Even though Snape killed Dumbledore, Malfoy had been the one to defeat Dumbledore in their duel (Malfoy disarmed him). Therefore, even though Malfoy never actually took Dumbledore's wand, it was rightfully his. And then, in the seventh book, at Malfoy Manor, Harry disarmed Malfoy, thus Malfoy's wands (his blackthorn wand and his Elder wand) became rightfully Harry's. Which is why they didn't work when Voldemort used it.</p>
<p>"sigh" Voldemort did indeed take the Elder wand from Dumbledore. However, the wand had already recognized Malfoy as its true master (b/c Draco was the one who subdued Dumbledore, thereby gaining mastery over Dumbledore, even though Snape later did the actual killing) and thus never seemed to work properly for Voldemort. Once Harry overcame Draco at the Malfoys' house, the Elder wand then recognized Harry as its true master. Then, when Voldemort tried to kill Harry at the end, the wand backfired on him b/c it wouldn't harm what it considered its current true master which was Harry.</p>
<p>Haha, between the two of us, everyone should now understand!!!</p>
<p>hopefully!!!</p>
<p>i guess in everyone's haste to finish the book, some things were quickly grazed over...</p>
<p>disarm = win</p>