I finished it last night and now I’m sad. :-(

Sunday when I finally got home, I realized that the book was NOT at my doorstep.  I was PISSED!  So angry that I took it out on my mom and said some mean things to her.  🙁  I suck.  I called UPS and they at first said that since it doesn’t require signatures, they leave it at the doorstep and if I don’t have it, I need to contact the shipper.  I was so pissed and knowing that Amazon had guranteed release date delivery, I figured I would get my money back so I was ready to head out to Walmart to get the book.  Then the UPS guy tells me that though Amazon shipped it through UPS, UPS sent it to me through USPS!!  WHAT?  So I ran to my mail box and found that the book was indeed in there.  I was too exhausted Sunday night to read too long, but I did stay up until 1 AM reading.  Then I had Monday off and I read off and on all day but wasn’t in a hurry to finish it because I didn’t want it to end!  Tuesday, my flight was delayed at the ATL airport for 3 hours, so I read there and then read the whole 2 hour flight.  The guy next to me must have thought I was CRAZY because I has in tears the whole time.  I had the last two or three chapters left as the plane landed and it was the first thing I picked up as soon as I got to my hotel.  It only took a little while to finish it and when I was done, I didn’t know what to think.  It’s like losing a best friend.  It’s OVER!  How can it be over?  What book do I have to look forward to now??

Spoilers coming up so if you haven’t finished reading it don’t go any further…..

My thoughts on the book is still scattered.  I need to read it again.  And I need it to all absorb.

Things I liked:

• Everything pretty much happened as I expected.  I was right on when it came to certain things. 
• Harry DIDN’T die!  YAY!
• Hermione and Ron were finally together
• I got my one big happy Weasley family at the end
• Neville kicked some major ASS!  I loved him killing Nagini.
• The Deathly Hallows
• Harry accepting the fact that he is a horcrux and facing his fate
• Voldy dying
• Bellatrix dying
• Luna and her pictures!
• The afterlife at King’s Cross with Dumbledoor.  King’s Cross is a train station, right?  So it totally reminded me of The Matrix…the third one I think….where Neo is kinda dead and at a train station. 
• Molly killing Belatrix

Things I didn’t like:

• Fred DIED!!  WHAT THE FUCK!!  She killed a Weasley for no reason and then never followed up to let us know how George was doing.
• Lupin AND Tonks died AFTER having a kid.  What was the point?
• Snape loved Lily and that’s the only reason he helped Dumbledore.  He still hated Harry because he was James’s son.  He was still a dick.  But he died in the end and was kinda redeemed I guess.  Still doesn’t make him any less of an ass in my book.  I did feel sorry for him during the flashback scenes though.  And James sounded like an ass as well so why in the world did Lily marry him?  I called the Snape loved Lily tbhing a long time ago. 
• No Quidditch or Hogwarts.  So the trio pretty much dropped out of school and in my book that’s not cool.  They didn’t take their NEWTS?  They didn’t pass so what happens?  There is no wizarding university so their education is over?  Yeah…not liking that.  I guess I’ve had education ingrained in my mind since I was a kid and have a hard time understanding how you become better at magic if you don’t keep learning.
• Dumbledore having too many flaws.  No man is perfect, but in stories like this, having a mentor like that needs to be near perfect.  Can you imagine if Obi-Wan or Yoda had been so flawed?  Or Gandalf?  I liked that he was made human, but I didn’t like the way they did it and the way they made it seem like he was just using Harry.
• Everything pretty much happened as I expected and there were no surprises.
• Neville not getting to kill Bella
• Lupin not getting to kill Greyback
• Petunia wanted to go to Hogwarts?  That’s why she hated Harry?  That’s it?  Too many people hated him for all the wrong reasons including Petunia and Snape.

I know I’m missing stuff.  I loved the book though.  It was a pretty good ending to it all.  I loved the Epilogue even if it was super cheesy.  But I wanted to know more.  What happened to Luna in 19 years?  What happened to George?  How were the Weasleys?  Who was headmaster at Hogwarts?  Who did Draco marry and what…all of a sudden everything with them is cool?  Still…overall, a good read and I’m truly sad that it’s over.  I’ve looked forward to a new book all along and now it’s over.  All the questions have been answered.  I don’t know what book I’ll look forward to now.  I hope there is some author out there who will keep me this enchanted and keep me this interested for so many years.  I guess at least I have two more movies to look forward to.