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No I haven't read it yet!   I thought a separate thread for those that have might be useful. I am in a dilemma I don't know whether to crash into the book when it arrives in the morning or to wait for the audio and spend a few  brilliant hours listening to Stephan Fry narrate the tale.  I'm inclined towards Stephan at the moment.


Anyway see you later...much much later...enjoy.......

I'm going to have to try and avoid all HP threads until I've grabbed my mates copy on Monday and it will take me a week at best to finish it.

Going to  put my fingers in my ears and go la la la la i can't hear you !!!!

;D

I finished it before 10 this morning.  ;D   Got it from Tesco and read from 12:30 - 2:30 then from 7 - 10.

Thank God we did go to Tesco as my Amazon copy STILL hasn't arrived!!!!!!!

Oh got a copy from Morrisons for £4.99.

Mine arrived this morning but I haven't even looked at it. I have immense will power..she says trying to convince herself  :D

Please when you begin to chat about the plot can you put

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at the top of your post so  we know you are about to chat about the deathly hallows story line.

Thanks mateys

Got my copy from Amazon at 07.30 yesterday morning..........just finished it! 8)

I won't put any spoiler info, it took all my willpower not to look at the back whilst reading it, and I'm really glad I didn't now.

Suffice to say I really enjoyed it, best of all the books I think, quite a few loose ends tied up, and a few suprises too.......I even came over a bit teary at a few points.....must be my cold and sleep deprivation from just finishing nights! ;D

I bet the audio version will be fab, I'm sorely tempted......

Yay!!! Finished it at 3.35am. C'mon you lot!!!!
Heldi - I just love Stephen Fry - I think I may have to buy audio book too as Maya only 8 and although a big reader I think the last few are beyond her.

Thoroughly recommend them Emmy.  Fabulous in the car...my four year old even keeps quiet lol!

See I can't help but look in this thread...I'm going to stop now because I'll upset myself if I read about the plot.  ::)  :D

I loved the book.  Like you Deb I had a few tears.

Hmm - audiobooks would be a great idea for christmas pressies......

Alison

Hi everyone

I finished on Sunday, and so did my OH, but I am just dying for everyone else to hurry up so we can talk about it!

It really made the book so much better, not knowing how things were going to pan out. Just a few hints from JKR on Jonathan Ross, saying there was a "bloodbath" and about how she cried for a day after writing the death of one character - so everytime a character was in danger my heart was pounding.

All the other HP fans I know are being really careful about what they are saying to each other so as not to spoil it - it's killing me!

i found this site which breaks the book down into a high level synopisis

http://msnukentertainment.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3C09FD3E7B34CEFB!2487.entry?action=post&ppud=0&wa=wsignin1.0

I finished it this lunch time, and have just leant my copy to my mum - she was texting me every day since i bought it to see if i'd finished it yet  ::)

Suffice to say I loved it, it was very suspenseful (is that even a word???  :D ) and kept me hanging by a thread til the last chapter.  I LOVE the ending  ;)  ;D  ;D  ;D

 ;D ;D ;D ;D@ Kitten. I love the suspensefulness of this thread!! Can't wait to get full on discussion going.  ;D

i finished it this morning :D iread the 6th one last week to remind me what was what!! i thought it was brill. just getting back to living with muggles again
feel pleased i was right about snape all along :-X
marg

i would have liked maybe 3 pages less on the 'camping' bit and instead more on how lupin and his wife faired.

yes it did go a bit dead in the middle ,i think that was done to show how depressed they were feeling !!
marg

yep but my gut feeling is that the last book is going to be hard to film and that dead bit will not be 1/2 the film more like 10-15 min which will allow some more time for the battles :) so we might get more !!

Eventually...I listened to the whole thing last week.  Blimey I took me time didn't I !  Got through a stack of ironing though.

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I thoroughly enjoyed the book. Really great...even had a few tears welling up. Poor Dobby! Wonder if it was his death JKR sobbed about? It was so sad.

Prof. Snape eh?  I always thought he would come good until he flew out of the window at Hogwarts..then I thought I was wrong...but I wasn't lol!

The only thing I'm not really sure about is the "nineteen years later"  Thought that was a bit naff.  I would've preferred an ending mopping up the aftermath , Fred, Lupin and Tonk's funeral.  What did they do with Voldermorts body after stuffing it in the side room? (Am I just weird?) How did Hogwarts recover? How Harry felt about Snape after all the years of hating him. That sort of thing.

Hi Heldi, the audio book sounds fascinating, i might just put it on my christmas list  ;)

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I know what you mean, it didn't ring entirely true to me either the nineteen years later bit, i was thinking they must've been together a while before having the kids, etc lol  :D

I was also a bit disappointed that we didn't really get any closure on Lupin and Tonks, even tho she referred to Ted in the last chapter as I remember

I was welling up about poor Hedwig  :'(

Overall I was quite pleased with it, just a little bit unsure about the last chapter I suppose

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It took me half the night to get over Hedwig!  I thought he was less dispensable than Harry personally.  After all Hedwig was useful, Harry just had to rely on his pals all the time.

and wasn't Dumbledore a complete b*******d !

Have put the box set on the chrissy list.  Need to get my head around some of the plots again.