oooh, I'm replying to myself again.

I have fallen for a friend (my partner actually, and very sidden it was too). I don't know anyone that has fallen for a relation of their best friend that they have known since they were tiny little people - that is just odd. Harry and Ginny are just wrong!

I'm just gonna say this to the people so outraged about the Harry/Ginny deal: you mean to tell me that you have never started feeling something else for a friend you've known for a long time? That one day you looked at them with other eyes and went, "Oh, wow! How come I didn't see him/her before? What was I thinking?" It happens, people. It happened to me a couple of times, and it happened to Harry too. Get over it.

Yep, I know I am replying to myself but I had to say YES, Luna and Neville got screwed. Excellent way of putting it, thanks ThatWeirdGirl!

Ron should just stay away from girls. Luna and Nelville got the screwed in this book. Luna is better than a pity date and Nelville is a good steady friend.

Snape is a killer, Malfoy (as much as I hate to say) could be redeemed, Ginny/Potter is ok, the fact that they were all whiney teenagers in this book. . .realistic. That's pretty much all my thoughts. Oh yeah DD is dead, Sirius is dead, and Voldi is dying soon. . .

It was a good read, but too short really for all it needed to cover (again this is my inexpert opinion) and I look forward to the next one.

I'm not pleased w/the Harry/Ginny thing either. Or the Hermione/Lavender thing.

I think Dumbledore and Snape saved Draco by their actions. I'm not sure how Draco will take to the saving, but he isn't a killer. I've trusted Snape since his introduction in B1...some may call me naive.

I think if Anybody comes back from the dead it will be a cop-out, and Rowling isn't that kind of author. The reason this book was so moving was because it didn't sugar coat anything. Diggory died, Sirius died, Dumbledore died. Even in the world of magic, when people die, they die. Because that's life. If dead can be overturned, the story loses its edge. Harry loses his drive. It's not as good.

Dumbledore was not infallible. He trusted Snape, and that trust cost him his life. Malfoy had the opportunity to be saved and lost it. Dumbledore couldn't save either one of them because they made their own decisons. Everybody expected Dumbledore to always be perfect and make the right decisions, but he's only human. Still, he could save Harry.

I wouldn't have the story any other way.