marcmagus | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Reply)

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Well, I'm done. Everything else below the cut.

Interesting how all my thoughts are about Slytherins...

Snape! He did it, all of it, to honor Lily's dying wish? That's it? The whole thing was basically just a giant guilt-trip laid by Dumbledore? And then he just . . . dies, with a whimper. He doesn't really do much of anything all book.
I'm also disappointed in Draco. I was hoping we might be set up for some kind of moment of redemption, but I think the best we got was that he didn't actually do anything actively evil after he was pretty much defeated and powerless.
And finally, the whole of Slytherin House?! Not a single one of them makes any gesture to take a stand for what's right, or to protect the school, or anything? What's with that crap? It seems what we're left with, at the end of the day, is that nobody sorted into Slytherin can ever become a real hero. It's so hollow.

Yeah, that's the bottom line. Being Slytherin might not make you automatically evil, but apparently it prevents you from being actively good. At best, you can be some sort of reluctant hero, guilted into it because someone died. I wanted something both more and less interesting, where House wasn't such a determinant of both personality and path. Oh, well.

And I really enjoyed reading it. I just wanted more from it.

Oh, wait, one more. Why has nobody who was alive back then ever made any mention of, passing reference to, or even obvious omission of the apparently well-known friendship between Lily and Snape. Since she apparently did know he existed, after all, and people were aware enough of their friendship to give her a hard time about it, why does it feel like it, well, never existed until this book got written?