Finished!

[lydamorehouse]

By this, I mean that Mason and I finished reading DEATHLY HALLOWS. As predicted (once again by naomikritzer) Neville Longbottom rocks my world. Though I don't think the image of him pulling the sword of Gryffindor from the Sorting Hat was quite as awesome for me because I was at least partly expecting it, thanks to the Wikipedia Death List which we had to keep close at hand. I can't imagine the shock for those of you who read it as it happened.

I wasn't prepared for Neville coming out of the portrait at the Hog's Head and his tale of the continued resistance of Dumbeldore's Army, which made me deeply, deeply happy. And absolutely everything about his grandmother from the letter she wrote on the run (and the fact that she herself sent a Deatheater to St. Mungo's) telling him to keep fighting and the fact that her response when she shows up at the battle of Hogwarts when told Neville is in the thick of the fight, "Naturally."

Though the two things that I wasn't expecting that made me choke up? Professor McGonagall transfiguring the desks into a make-shift army and the sound of her broken voice when she thought Harry was dead.

Awesome book.

Comments

[joncwriter.livejournal.com]

Yes! And I'm particularly amused that nearly every character made at least a passing cameo. I think the only thing missing was the Weasleys' flying car. ;)

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

The Deathly Hallows reminds me of what critics said about Brecht's Galileo where in the end the myth of the great man/hero gives way to a democratic proletariat revolution where everyone gets a chance to fight for their future with Harry being the focal point but not the only hero available.

Neville is particularly awesome, though.