DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK HERE IF YOU HAVEN’T READ THE LAST BOOK YET!
OKAY??
Okay. Is it really true that NO ONE has input about the question I asked in the last paragraph of my post here?
Someone just tell me. Something. Anything. I need an answer! Please, smartypants-es!
Daughter and I agree that it’s the V-mort soul part that was in Harry the horcrux.
Yeah, that’s what I thought — in the middle of the night. Why is it a child, I wonder? Maybe I’m asking too many questions. I was completely freaked out by the description, so I keep thinking about it.
It’s very similar to the description of V-mort in GoF, before his re-embodiment. See the graveyard scene.
Because he had to re-grow? I don’t know- sometimes her symbolism misses the mark. And sometimes she overdoes it, like with the names. I howled (no pun intended) at NF’s remark about Lupin. But I thought they were a lot of fun, at the same time. Old Classics major.
I can’t be too hard on the last book- she did, after all, have to make up this whole world and figure out its magical rules and then conform events to their complexity. I think the whole thing kind of got away from her, in a way, in spite of all the pre-planning she did.
Yeah, I enjoyed the book, Sal. I really did. I was just already going different ways in my own head. Which maybe isn’t fair to her. But there it is.
It’s probably a baby, because that’s the age Harry was when Voldemort accidentally made Harry a Horcrux.
I was going to agree with your Theory, Tracey, but since Sal already has, I guess there is no need for me to pile on. I too would have liked some kind of explanation for that, though.
I loved the last book…I think just because I had made my mind up to love it. I agree it wasn’t the best of the seven. And despite that fact that it got away from her a bit, when taken as a whole, I think the series was remarkable. As I said before, I love her flawed characters. For a completely fantastical world with magical powers, her characters are amazingly human and real.
I haven’t read the book yet…my husband refuses to buy it till it reaches $5…I may never have an answer to your question!!!