Blog Post #3

I really enjoyed the ending of the series. Strong moments in this book for me were things such as Harry’s friends disguising themselves as Harry with the high likelihood of them getting killed, Ron leaving Harry and Hermione in the woods, and the major moment of finding out the truth about Snape.  The true commitment and companionship that was exhibited when Harry’s friends took the Polyjuice potion just for him was truly inspiring, selfless even. The only thing that everybody wanted was just for Harry to be safe and camouflaged. The next moment that really stuck out to me was when Ron left Harry and Hermione in the woods. First, Ron had done things like this before, but when the trio was in such grave danger, it was not a very smart thing to do, especially if the reasoning was only because Ron was getting “bored” and was not getting the results like he had wanted. Harry needs time to think to come up with his action plans, which seemingly have always worked out before, or a version of them at least.  Ron leaving the group was a very selfish thing to do, but at least his true heroism came out in the end when he showed up to save Harry from the lake while the horocrux locket was trying to strangle and choke him. I think the most shocking moment that stuck out to me was when Snape finally showed his true colors, and they weren't bad at all! The entire series, I had grown to hate Snape, and his mind games that he seemed to be playing with Harry, in actuality, he was protecting Harry all along. Snape, in a sense, even died for Harry, which I would have never guessed if you said that at the beginning of the series. I also thought it was very honorable of Snape to show Harry all of his most important memories, it was if it were an apology showing Harry why he had been so mean to him for all of his years at Hogwarts. Knowing that Snape killed Dumbledore might have made me a tad salty, because who doesn’t love Dumbledore, but in the end, it showed courage that Snape did was Dumbledore wanted him to do all along and fulfill the prophecy.

All in all, the seventh book was definitely a different approach to the series, but I was very pleased with how the story turned out and I enjoyed that Ginny and Harry got married and Hermione and Ron also got married and had children. It leaves your imagination to run wild knowing that their children were attending Hogwarts at the end of the epilogue. 

-Alexandra Stevenson