I read it. It was better than the abysmal 6th volume but it didn't quite pull off the triumphal ending the series deserved. The author really needed to get Harry off stage for a while and show us the rest of her wider cast. Instead we get three chapters of Harry, Ron and Hermione whining in a tent and the revolution at Hogwarts led by Ginny and the adventures of the order of the Phoenix reported in three paragraphs afterwards. in fact Rowlins appears to forget about Ginny altogehter a third of the way through the book and does nothing to set up the [spoiler blacked out] "ten years later" epilogue of "Oh, and here's Harry and Ginny's kid going to Hogwarts".




I thought movie 6 did a reasonable job in finding an actual plot with an actual resolution from the 600-page setup for volume 7 that was volume 6.







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