The Boy Who Lived

Consider this your warning: If you have not yet read, or finished reading Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows stop reading this blog immediately! I don't want to be held responsible for ruining the ending for an unsuspecting reader :) Now on to my post....

Things that surprised me, the loyal Harry Potter series fan:

• Snape? Really? He was on our side after all?
  
• Narcissa Malfoy not giving up the real "status" of Harry Potter's life
  
• Fred... why Fred? He was such a funny young lad
  
• George losing an ear. Only because I can't stop trying to picture what that would look like. Rowling keeps describing it as a hole on the side of his head, but really how could a person live like that?
  
• Hedwig dying so early in the book
  
• Harry being the 7th Horcrux
  
• Not one main character lost their life in the final book. Rowling, you couldn't bring yourself to do it now could you?
  
• Dumbledore was really dead after all
  

Things that surprisingly didn't surprise me... lol

• Harry marries Ginny and Ron, Hermoine... like duh
  
• Harry names his children after his parents, and Dumbledore
  
• The "heaven" scene where Dumbledore and Harry reunite and everything is "explained" and tied up into neat little Boy Scout-like knots.
  
• Harry lives
  
• Tears were shed, yes tears were shed
  

Now don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVED this book. There were just some things about it I found corny, cheesy, and come on -- predictable. I am a huge Harry Potter fan, but I have to admit a little ounce of disappointment (especially with the last chapter). I like happy endings of course, but the last few pages were hard to follow and I found myself rereading them several times -- wait, who the hell is Rosie? -- someone's snogging Teddy, and that would be? -- oh right, the werewolf's kid. Yikes!