Lets just get it over with and say that the Audiobook read by Stephen Fry? SO WORTH EVERY SECOND!

The guy reads wonderfully, he makes the entire experience of the book new again and i loved every second that i spend listening to this book!

If you are someone that normally doesn't listen to Audiobooks? Give Stephen Fry's audios a chance and see if he does it in a way that you enjoy, because i was not sold on this at all until i gave it a try and fell in love with how he reads them! He deserves all the hype he gets for the job he has done with this series!


And now on to the actual review of this book....

Be prepared for a rant!


I love a lot about this book.

I love harry and Hermione in this book.

I love how they work together, how they never give up even if it gets really, really hard.

And i love how we finally get to see this side of Dumbledore that we all know is there but never got to see before.

I love that Rowling doesn't shy away from killing beloved characters yet again in this book because they are at war!
people sadly die when that happens! I wish it would have been ron that got killed instead of fred... but i am in the minority there so there is that!

I love so much about it, i love how scared and real Hermione and harry and even Ron are in this book because they know what they have to do and do it but they are scared to death to do it, but they are good and brave and do it anyways!

I love those moments between them when they leave for the hunt.

I even love the Dursley moment in the beginning! Its such a nice little scene that really shows how those two boys we meet in the first book as little babies are all grown up and are now capable and willing to make up their own minds on how to treat others!

I love how brave harry is when he learns he has to die and what Dumbledore did to him!

I love how Harry walks right to Voldemort and lets himself be killed because he know its the right thing, even though he is scared and doesn't want to do it but that is how harry is throughout all the books so its perfect!
I love how his parents and sirius are with him for it because that is so right as well! That is so perfect!

I love the Narcissa moment!

I love how Harry reacts to the Deathly Hallows!



But i also have a huge amount of issues with this book.

The more milder ones are:

- why the heck didn't those three kids let an adult help them find those stupid soul pieces? What the heck is wrong with them AND Dumbledore?
Yes fine, Harry had to die and why not send him out on the quest to find those pieces since he clearly was already living on borrowed time. I understand. But why the heck not give them an adult person to help them with the search?
Why didn't Dumbledore tell a teacher our member at they should help the kids? Like McGonagall, because we all have to see that plot gold behind that idea! Just think about it for a second!
But just an adult that knows a bit more about it all, about spells, curses, help them figure out where the stuff is or who they might trust to ask helpful questions to?... and hey someone like Bill might have been perfect? I am sure we can all find at least three people without thinking o hard about it that would have been a perfect choice to go with them and be very helpful with that specific quest and still get to the end result of this book!

But to only trust three teenagers to figure all those things out that Dumbledore spend years on and never could get right is just... stupid!

Yes i know that would have thrown this whole golden trio thing off... but still that always, always bothered me.

Not sure why exactly to be honest since i know other books in this series have very similar if not bigger problems with involving adults to help them but still.... this time it really bothered me, especially from Dumbledores point.


- the little bit before the epilogue, where we kind of get a view into what might happen immediately after the battle, but not really.
I wish we would have gotten at least one more chapter, a chapter where we see the Weasley family and harry and Hermione unite together, where we see Neville talk with his grandmother who tells him utterly proud she is of him and always know that he would be even braver than his parents! I want to know how George is doing, if he is in complete shock or if he is happy that his brother died protecting his other brother.
I want to know who of the old Quidditch team survived!
how Percy is feeling!
If Fred decides to become a poltergeist at hogwarts to cause never ending mayhem there... (just a suggestion!)
I just wanted a bit more of all the hogwarts characters we all got to know through all those books and than just don't get a real ending for.
And sadly we didn't get that. And i would have loved to get that.


What i HATE about the book:

- Snape.
Because COME ON PEOPLE!
Lets put harry aside, snape is a horrendous person! He never tried to be a good teacher to anybody, he always, always made Hermione's and Nevilles lives horrible for no reason other than that he just could! And those two are just the one that we saw happen throughout the other books! Can you imagine what kind of torture for example, luna had to go through with Snape?

I mean sure how stupid is Lily that she takes one stupid slip up of an apparently life long friend to completely cut him out of her life, something is clearly wrong with her, if she doesn't even try to see his side of the story... but how can someone be apparently so in love with a person and than clearly hate her child that she so clearly loved?
Does that make no sense to anybody else?
I mean if you love a person so much as snape apparently loved lily, love her freaking child! that is the only thing left of her!

He did not redeem himself at all, AT ALL! He was a horrible person, a horrible teacher, a horrible, horrible friend! And just because he was not actually Evil and really on Voldemorts side does not make up for what else he did throughout his life!

Snape is not good, snape does not deserve forgiveness, Snape deserved to die!

Rant over!


- That very end fight scene...

I am sorry but can we say clique?
I love Rowling, i love how unique and special she made this entire series.
And than we get that? Really?

After that unexpected death, after Neville's heroic fight, and than we get that end scene? The clique monologue? The over the top "we circle each other until death... or one of us gets tired out or dizzy by all that circling"thing? REALLY? COME ON ROWLING!

- The wand fixing... because really? Nobody can repair that kind of damaged wand.... BUT THE ELDER WAND CAN! I mean... just come on!!


- and lastly... the epilogue

Because again, Rowling, really? What is the next level that follows after overused Clique? Because that is needed to describe that Epilogue!
Can we try again but once more with feeling and a bit more uniqueness and more rowling-ness story telling please?




All in all this is a great last book.

But sadly i just missed a lot of the complete and utter uniqueness that normally made out all those other books.

And i don't know if that is because it is the last book, the seventh book and maybe even someone as fantastically magically wonderful as Rowling runs out of remarkable, unequaled and distinct story ideas at that point.
Or maybe i missed my childhood reading glow with my first read and can't un-see all the issues... not sure.

But to me this last book is defiantly the weakest one.


Its still Harry Potter.

Its still always, ALWAYS!
, worth the re-read!

and i do love that she actually finished the series in a real and good way, and most of this book is great and clearly most people love most of what she did in this book.