Finished Deathly Hallows? SPOILERS WILL PROBABLY ABOUND.
Finished Deathly Hallows? SPOILERS WILL PROBABLY ABOUND.
#1Finished Deathly Hallows? SPOILERS WILL PROBABLY ABOUND.
Posted: 7/20/07 at 11:42pm
I finished the book at 4.30am British summer time. I'm not commenting any further at this time, but I am going to have to read the last page again because once I realised which page it was, I started sobbing and probably missed most of it. I'm SUCH a nerd. XP
So anyone else who's a massive nerd, feel free to post your finishing times and reactions and anything else you just need to get out there once you've finished the book.
#2re: Finished Deathly Hallows? SPOILERS WILL PROBABLY ABOUND.
Posted: 7/20/07 at 11:44pm
JasonM12480
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#2re: Finished Deathly Hallows? SPOILERS WILL PROBABLY ABOUND.
Posted: 7/21/07 at 12:01am
Why? So you can post it on other websites to claim you actually read it for yourself and blow it for others?
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.
#3re: Finished Deathly Hallows? SPOILERS WILL PROBABLY ABOUND.
Posted: 7/21/07 at 12:08am
#4re: Finished Deathly Hallows? SPOILERS WILL PROBABLY ABOUND.
Posted: 7/21/07 at 4:51amI didn't open this thread earlier, so I don't know why ww11 deleted his posts, but I'm comfortably ensconced in the book and look forward to being able to discuss it here when I am finished. So much has happened, and I'm only a quarter of the way in!
#5re: Finished Deathly Hallows? SPOILERS WILL PROBABLY ABOUND.
Posted: 7/21/07 at 6:02amFinished at 4:30 am US Eastern time (if we're getting technical, heh), and I definitely cried my way through the last bit as well. It was probably mostly because of the fact that I knew it was the end, rather than the book itself, but still. I'm not sure I quite bought the last few pages, they seemed a little too... well, nicely wrapped up with a bow on top, so to speak, but overall I still loved the book.
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#6re: Finished Deathly Hallows? SPOILERS WILL PROBABLY ABOUND.
Posted: 7/21/07 at 7:10am
Te book went on sale at midnight, and you finished it four hours later???
Okay, pardon my incredulity, but either you skimmed every fourth page or you just needed to post something in a now-trendy thread. If it's the former, you should be ashamed that Rowling would work on something that long and you treat it like a McBook.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#7re: Finished Deathly Hallows? SPOILERS WILL PROBABLY ABOUND.
Posted: 7/21/07 at 7:45amWell I'm ready to hear the ending, if anyone wants to PM me.
#8re: Finished Deathly Hallows? SPOILERS WILL PROBABLY ABOUND.
Posted: 7/21/07 at 9:01amAs am I. There is no way I'm going to read the book so a PM would be greatly appreciated.
#9finished deathly hallows? spoiled
Posted: 7/21/07 at 9:19amhermione marries voldemort to get him to spare harry's life. because of this, ron kills harry. hagrid is revealed to be voldemort's brother darryl. when voldemort tries to consummate the marriage to hermione, she's put a withering death curse on her own hoo hah which kills voldemort, but not before he impregnates her with baby voldy. the baaby immediately takes over her body and soul and she kills ron and marries draco who is killed by snape who ends up performing a partial birth abortion on voldy and hermione's evil baby. hermione, being the only survivor, becomes a nun and dedicates herself to exposing the wizard's world. harry and ron become lovers in the afterlife.
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#10finished deathly hallows? spoiled
Posted: 7/21/07 at 9:43am
As sadas it is, papa, there's probably a decent amount of fanfiction that ffollows thaa story exactly.
I'm not going to be reading the book for probably another week at least, so I know I'm going to be reading spoilers by then. I don't even really care anymore--it's a kid's book, for god's sake, I'll live.
So, what happens?
JustAGuy
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#11finished deathly hallows? spoiled
Posted: 7/21/07 at 9:45amDamn you, Papa. I was just starting the final chapter after being up all night reading. So, I decide to take a little break and go to BBW...and YOU...YOU ruin it for me. I hope your wand is forever limp!
#12finished deathly hallows? spoiled
Posted: 7/21/07 at 9:47amIt turns out that Darth is Luke's father.
#13finished deathly hallows? spoiled
Posted: 7/21/07 at 9:47ami knew there was a reason i put an opposites curse on you, jag. well, i've reversed it now, but, heh. thanks.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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#14finished deathly hallows? spoiled
Posted: 7/21/07 at 9:48amThere are just too many books I have to read right now, so I won't get to the book for a while. So, seriously, just PM me and tell what happens.
#15finished deathly hallows? spoiled
Posted: 7/21/07 at 11:34am
You have more pressing books to have read than the biggest literary event of the last fifty years?
I just finished it. It was amazing. You're doing yourselves a disservice asking for spoilers because the suspense is the best part. It's a beautiful end to a great series. I also thought the epilogue was very pat but I'll admit it's exactly how I wanted it to end.
I'm totally riding high right now... it was amazing.
joey
#16finished deathly hallows? spoiled
Posted: 7/21/07 at 11:50am
Why is anyone surprised that a Potter book can be finished so quickly? My very first temp job in New York afforded me so much time that I read the first four books in a week...and that was reading them while hiding them under my desk. It's not like you're trying to untangle a paragraph by Hawthorne.
I used to read those Star Wars (don't laugh) books in a night.
#17finished deathly hallows? spoiled
Posted: 7/21/07 at 12:06pm
>> Why is anyone surprised that a Potter book can be finished so quickly?
Well, gee, let's see.
Eight hundred pages, more or less.
Four hours speed reading time.
That comes to two hundred pages an hour, assuming no bathroom breaks. That's about three and a quarter pages a minute.
That's not reading.
#18finished deathly hallows? spoiled
Posted: 7/21/07 at 12:08pm
I'd completely have to disagree with you. IT's a large book, but it's not small type. I finished the Goblet of Fire in a day and I didn't skim.
#19finished deathly hallows? spoiled
Posted: 7/21/07 at 12:14pm
600 pages, four and a quarter hours solid reading, and the book came on bathroom breaks with me. More than easily done!
If I were a lesser person, I'd say SeanMartin is so bitter about being a slow reader that he's convinced himself people LIE about their reading ability so he doesn't have to feel jealous. 
#20finished deathly hallows? spoiled
Posted: 7/21/07 at 12:43pmI am also a very quick reader, but I am really forcing myself to slooooooooooow down. HP #'s 5&6 I was able to read in one night apiece.
#21finished deathly hallows? spoiled
Posted: 7/21/07 at 12:55pm
4 hours IS a lot for 750 pages. There's no way I could read that quickly and still absorb everything I wanted to.
That said, I finished the book early this morning -- but that's after getting a 300-page head start before getting the book at midnight. And I loved it. Every instant I was reading that book was pure joy, and what seemed like it could only be a huge disappointment after all the buildup ended in the most satisfying way possible.
#22finished deathly hallows? spoiled
Posted: 7/21/07 at 1:17pm
I just finished the book about 5 minutes ago. I was a sobbing mess for the last 100 or so pages, but it was more of an emotional cleansing if anything, if that makes sense. I have come to care for these characters even more strongly than I realized; their journey wasn't easy, but it was always satisfying.
I am pleased that I guessed a few of the secrets of Deathly Hallows, and even more pleased that I didn't give in to the temptation of spoilers. JK Rowling has always been able to go far above and beyond my expectations, and Deathly Hallows was no exception. Do I wish that some characters who were lost had survived? Of course. But the ending was so perfect, I wouldn't have had it any other way.
Thus after 8 years of bliss, my experience with Harry Potter is at an end. Who knew that the insomnia I suffered during my freshman year of high school that led me to borrow my brother's copy of Sorcerer's Stone would've had such insane results? Not I, not I.
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#23finished deathly hallows? spoiled
Posted: 7/21/07 at 1:26pmI don't see why so many people seem to have a problem with people reading the book quickly. Now, I've never once read a Harry Potter book, but I've read many a monster-long book and if the book is good enough, you can read anything incredibly quickly without even noticing it.
#24finished deathly hallows? spoiled
Posted: 7/21/07 at 1:31pmMy father went out and bought it this morning. I have it sitting right here next to me and, amazing, I have pretty much no temptation whatsoever to pick it up and read it. I'm not that interested in working my way through 800 pages--all I really wanna know is what happens at the end, so that I can have some closure to the whole Potter experience. I haven't been that interested in getting through a book since the fourth one came out when I was in the fifth grade.
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