I finished this book on Saturday night and I did really enjoy it. It was a much darker book than the previous ones.. the words "Blood bath" spring to mind.
Killing off Mad Eye Moody at the start was a bit of a shock. he's what I would call the "military" wing of the Order of the Phoenix. The bit with Harry's wand automatically defending itself.. it wasn't fully explained .. well ok it WAS .. sort of ... as a side effect of the bond between Harry and Voldermort.
I did find the end.. the final battle between Harry and Voldermort passed a little quickly. Sure there was the huge pitched battle at Hogwarts and all the notable deaths there. But the actual battle between good and evil.. seemed to pass very quickly. in the space of one or two lines of text actually.
I actually missed the bit where Voldermorts spell backfired.. One second they have wands drawn and the next Voldy's gone Moldy! What? what did I miss.. since when did the disarming spell kill??
That was a little "odd" as well. Using a disarming spell when he knew this was the last and most important battle? Surely he didn't know it would cause the unforgivable curse to rebound. So what was he going to do.. "I've got the elder wand now b*gger off and leave us alone?" Of course, it would never do for Harry to use the killing curse now would it?
all in all a good read.. even if at times it read more like a camping book than a harry potter novel.
"Five go mad with wands"
