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[astralis]

Well, I liked it for the most part, but I read it so quickly there's probably a lot I didn't take in.

Lupin and Tonks. Oh. I so much wanted them to be okay. I knew a Weasley would go and suspected it would be one of the twins so that I don't mind so much. At least it wasn't George.

I love Neville and Luna so much. And Luna's father, so desperate to get her back. And Neville's grandmother!

I'm glad Katie came back to fight at Hogwarts. I have a ridiculous crush on her.

And the epilogue? Total fanfic, honestly. I wrote a kids leave for Hogwarts epilogue to "Under the Stars" about four years ago. There's so many people I would have liked to have seen instead of kids. I suppose it was something to do with hope and the future, but really. She had Ted Lupin for that: Harry all over again, his parents killed by Voldemort when he was too young to remember them... I can understand the happy ending impulse, but what happened to the Dursleys? Kreacher? Katie, Alicia, Angelina, Oliver? Lavender?

I would have liked Neville to kill Bellatrix, but it's kind of cool that it was Molly.

Oh, the Harmonians are going to go nuts. This is going to be so much fun.

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[profshallowness.livejournal.com]

Word on Neville and Luna. I don't think I wanted to believe that a Weasley would be going, I was hoping that one wouldn't. The realisation of the loss of Fred has been hitting me (I shipped Fred/Angelina) since closing the book. Mostly, I enjoyed it though, and I can live with fic and fanon for the bits we didn't get.

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Yeah, there's heaps of room for fic and fanon with all the loose ends. I'm looking forward to that, actually.

I didn't want to believe she was going to kill a Weasley, but with the Woes of Mrs Weasley in OotP and the sheer number of them I figured they were unlikely to all get through alive. I was hoping for Bill/Charlie/Percy to go but had a horrible feeling it would be a twin. The enormity of losing Fred keeps growing on me.

And Neville and Luna. I love them.