Too much random chance, near misses, close calls, and unexpected successes. Too much random lucky breaks for the "good guys."

Agree with you about Lupin. He should've lived to see his "happy end" in the wizarding world.

And the Snape's Motivation was really lame. He had better fan theories going all around him at the start of the series, than what it all amounted to.

No Snape and Harry closure. They don't talk it out (after first throwing hexes), don't come to anything. He just lies there bleeding and Harry tries to save him. (Well. he should have. Always loved the "saving people thing." As does Ginny.)

Voldemort's death was really lame. Poor Voldy.

The Epilogue. I'd rather just imagine how it all ends.

Too much random chance, near misses, close calls, and unexpected successes. Too much random lucky breaks for the "good guys."

Agree with you about Lupin. He should've lived to see his "happy end" in the wizarding world.

And the Snape's Motivation was really lame. He had better fan theories going all around him at the start of the series, than what it all amounted to.

No Snape and Harry closure. They don't talk it out (after first throwing hexes), don't come to anything. He just lies there bleeding and Harry tries to save him. (Well. he should have. Always loved the "saving people thing." As does Ginny.)

Voldemort's final end was really lame. This one is the worst of the lot.

The Epilogue. I'd rather just imagine how it all ends.

Hahaha! Yes I hated the 7th book too, soo much buildup without delivery. So many characters shafted, I HATED how Ginny had no role in the final book, "docile, completely unimportant Ginny." That made me soo mad, how do you introduce a wicked brave feisty character in one book then mute her in another?

Neville getting the sword and killing the snake made me raise my eyebrows, and Snape dying from a bite that Ron's dad survived x 4? Lame.

No dueling, just running, and crying and camping for 3/4 of the book.

But whatever made me discount this book from my mind was the deathly hallows. 6 books, SIX BOOKS of "love will be the power you know not" and she whips out a magical trio of objects that will cause the Dark Lord to kill himself? I was sooo mad.

Thanks for the read.

The 7th book DEFINITELY did not stink! It was really well written. All the things you've listed are just minor errors. That does not mean the whole book was bad. I enjoyed reading it. And also, the reason Ginny does not name her kid Fred, is because George name's his kid Fred, after his twin brother.

Couldn't agree more about practically everything on this list. It's been how many years now since the book came out-7 I think? And I'm still too scarred and disappointed to give it a second read. #62 is one of the biggest problems I had (among others, really. So many bad choices!). Ginny so powerful but does NOTHING the entire book. So unsatisfying to have non-Auror, non-battle hardened Molly killing Bellatrix. Not saying Neville would have been super qualified either but he did have that whole revenge thing going for him, and arguably more practice with dueling spells from the DA.

Ugh! Hate this book!

Bilbo?
What the fuck?
Yeah i know that some things in the 7th
book suck and all, but the things like Tonks and Remus having a baby in the middle of a war, YOU'RE not a published writer, are you, you bitch. So shut your fucking mouth its freaking hard to write SEVEN books, JK Rowling didn't write those books for annoying little bitches like you.

I'm so grateful for this, because I seem to be the only one here in my tiny little social circle who doesn't remember jck sht about the last book and could even care less about the movies.

I can agree with almost everything you mentioned. The way the three main characters (yawn) were just sent on a 'camping trip' to solve stuff while Hogwarts (the one thing/place everyone has the most attachment to) is used as a Deus ex Machina at the end, like Boom, and serves as nothing but a battle ground for the INTERESTING characters to die on. And thank you so much for mentioning the ridiculous Lupin's child thing. Made me laugh in mysery - why would anyone come up with something like that if they were going to make it into a ridiculous plot-filling point? That's just insulting. It's like the kid is there to make us go 'Awww.' Not me, nu-uh. I know for a fact he's going to be socially disturbed and traumatized practically growing up in foster care with both real parents DEAD, but for some reason someone neglected to mention that. Or maybe when the fangirls squeal it's all good.
Plus the 'everyone gets kids and becomes happy' thing, not convincing at all indeed. In fact it's very embarrassing and corny. I think Rowling let the fanbase go to her head yet again. Why oh why, didn't she used to write good fantasy?

I dislike Ginny for the very reason that in the last (2?) books, she becomes a total Mary Sue. All of a sudden she's extremely popular, talented and cool? Didn't she use to be shy and cute? Plus, who ever gets away with acting as bitchy and (pardon the French) slutty - with all the boy hunting - as she did without getting flamed? Look at the popular girls in high school, they get hate. Ginny was a little too 'perfect' for my taste. I liked her well enough in the first books, though. Then again if she'd gotten the chance to prove herself, things might've been different, but as you so colourfully mentioned she didn't. Crap writing. And the 'radiant smile' or whatever? Ridiculous.

Conclusion, I agree. Your points are grounded and totally valid.

"I guess Ginny's real greatest contribution to the forces of good was satisfying Harry's lust"

Priceless...

"Bill's real name shouldn't be William; it should be Bilius"

I agree, it would fit nicely in Weasley's naming habits (Ginevra anyone?)

"If he was so terrified of having a freakish wolf-child, why did he screw Tonks in the first place?"

Apparently wizards don't use protection. Fanon disagrees.

"So basically, the OOTP and all of the Trio's friends are going to be used as cannon fodder so the Trio can finish the job and get all the glory."

It was apparent since the fourth book

"Not knocking Dean, I'm sure he's a great wizard, but still, he only has a sixth-year education, while Moody and Lupin were adults who had many years of training."

Come on, and Ginny and Luna held their own against Bellatrix. It's just stupid.

"Dumbledore's plan. It shouldn't have worked. It was pure freakin' luck."

True. I don't know why Snape went along with it, he seemed smart to me.

"The rebounding spell killing Voldemort. Boring."

Yeah, Voldemort tried to AK Harry three times and fails. Then he - what? - tries to use the same curse again?

Why would you call Snape a jerk? What did he do? And I'm pretty sure being mauled by Voldemort's snake isn't 'anticlimactic'. Anyway, what is up with you about Ginny? What did she do to get all this attention from you? And Harry's kids aren't predictably named. Sure, they may be about late heroes and mothers, but Albus Severus? Thats one I did NOT expect. Besides, the whole thing about Lily being important? She was just the mother of Harry. I mean, no offense, but since she's dead, and Harry doesn't even remember her, it wasn't that significant. And what do you mean, seeing history repeat itself? Albus (Potter, I assume) just didn't want to be in Slytherin. There's not a whole lot of people that do. And still, Snape wasn't worthy of death at all. Why are you being so mean about it? I know in your author's note you said that you were obsessed with Ginny, so why'd you pick up so many things you didn't like about her? And WHY wouldn't Harry, Hermione, and Ron not be parents? They all have fiancées. And most of the reasons were just the same things, but differently worded. And just why couldn't Molly handle Bellatrix? After all, Bellatrix went after her daughter. Plus, Neville had snakes to murder. The fact that the nickname 'Sev' is used is because it is too cute. It would therefore annoy Snape. And, (I know I sound like you with Ginny, but I think Snape was an okay character, if not a pretty damn great one, and I think you shouldn't beat down on him so much.) the fact that Snape DID change sides for love was interesting, just because everyone thought he was incapable of love. About you not being very happy about Harry's coming back to life, and Dumbledore's plan working. What, do you WANT Voldemort to win the war? Because wouldn't things be just damn PEACHY if he did! Peter Pettigrew did not, I repeat, did NOT kill himself. When he sacrificed his real hand and got the silver one, he said his loyalty to Voldemort would never waver. Yet it did when he loosened his grip on Harry's neck when he was trying to choke him, and so, the silver hand instead choked him to death. Don't you know that there is a spell called 'Lumos' that I'm pretty sure they had the common sense to use during the final battle, so Ginny did not kill Lupin. Why wouldn't Ron's spattergroit plan work? Since it's extremely contagious, the death eaters wouldn't even want to step into the room. And Teddy wasn't worthless. They probably wanted a baby, but the war happened, and they knew something might happen to them (which sadly did) and did not want their name to be cut off, or whatever. But seriously, why would a BABY be worthless? I mean, fictitious or not, it's just cruel to say that. So Ginny didn't get a whole scene during the battle. She's not exactly a main character. Not to be mean though, I'm not hating on her. Also, you said that the seventh BOOK was like a, and I quote,"bad, cliché fanfiction". Well, it can't really be a fanfiction if it was the book. Ted Tonks only got one page or so, and he's suddenly 'DA BOMB'? Only a few select people deserve that title, Mister. (Or Missy, which ever one you prefer.) At which point in the book was Ginny "this powerful witch who everyone's always been underestimating", hmm? I don't remember reading about that. She was good at the bat bogey hex, but she's not suddenly the female Dumbledore! Also, Neville was not 'on steroids or something'. He just killed a goddamn snake and stood up to a few teachers. He hasn't instantaneously turned into the new Hercules. And, about Harry having 'lucky shots'. He's the Boy-Who-Lived, for God's sake! HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE FUCKING LUCKY!... That is all.

With Hate For Your Typical Stupidity,
Yet Another Girl

I totally see where your coming from! It defiantly could have been better. And about the poly juice thing, it would have copied the tattoo, because it duplicates the person exactly. The voice, hair, face, tattoos, scars. Though not piercings or clothing. Lol, sorry but I had to say that! Lol :)

I don't want to be rude, and this is just my opinion like this story/book review is yours, but I just need to point out some things:
One, Peter didn't kill himself. In GOF Voldemort gave him a silver hand as a replacement for the one he cut off (I think he cut it off, but he lost a hand, I know that) and he said something about may your loyalties never waver again, so when he paused that one instant when Harry reminded him he spared him, the hand strangled him for his loyalty to Voldemort wavering.
Two, if most all the good people lived and most all the evil people died, it wouldn't be realistic. In a huge, major battle against skilled Death Eaters, LOTS of good people will die, and plenty of evil people won't. It's sad, but true, and I liked how realistic JKR was about killings in the book.
Three, it was realistic that Neville didn't get to kill Bellatrix, because although it would be great if he did, in a real battle, people don't just go, "That guy's parents were tortured to the point of insanity by this woman - let's let him kill her!"
Four, for the epilogue, I think it was supposed to show life went on, without being depressing (because there was a whole bunch of depressing stuff in all the books, and most of DH).
Five, Harry's kids names were sort of predictable, I guess, but I don't get what's wrong with that. He named them after his dead parents, and headmaster and people like that, and I think it would've been sort of predictable too if one of them was named Fred.
Six, just because one of their kids isn't named Fred doesn't mean Ginny's docile. Nothing in the book suggests that. Maybe Ginny just didn't want to name her kid Fred. Some people don't, not for any bad reason, just because it would bring back memories of the death or something.
Seven, Harry and Ginny's reunion was fine. They were sort of in a battle, and I don't know what sort of lovely reunion one can have in those circumstances. There wasn't really time for that.
Eight, Harry and the others WERE upset people died for them. Remember the chapter where Harry found the resurrection stone? That was where they grieved. And they probably grieved after the fact, too, but they were also celebrating the death of Voldemort. People don't have to be so obvious about grief.
Nine, I already said something about good people/evil people's deaths (see point 2) but there's another thing. Again, this is a battle. Fred and George got separated. What were they supposed to do, stop fighting whomever they were and letting them get away just to stick together?
There are other things too, but those really got to me. Again, these are just my opinions.

Some mistakes I've seen if you've actually read and nitpicked at every single detail like I've had.

9.) I still don't understand why, if people knew Thicknesse was under the Imperius Curse, nothing was done about it.

I'm pretty sure that the only way to break someone from the Imperius Curse is for that person to have a strong enough will to break it off on their own or stunning/killing the person who did the spell at the first place. Since it could have been anyone, they couldn't really start stunning/killing everyone in the ministry, could they?

15.) I suppose this isn't really chronologically accurate, but why did Tonks and Lupin have a baby in the middle of a war, especially a war that they were actively participating in? I'm sure they could have done something to prevent it. The whole Teddy thing was pretty much pointless as far as I could tell.

The same thing could be said of James and Lily, having Harry during the middle of the First War. If you didn't know, babies make everyone extremely happy. Just hearing about a baby being born could stop all potential worries of the war. Or, at least, that's my interpretation of it.

17.) Harry starts having visions again. I thought Voldemort was using Occlumency against him, and it worked perfectly during the sixth book. No good reason (that I can think of) why it shouldn't now.

There is a lot of speculation about this, especially since J.K. has referenced a few clues about this for quite some time now. Severus mentioned in the fifth book that one can only occlude if they have a sound and calm mind. When Harry is seeing Voldemort again, Voldemort in a rage. There are other theories that because he lost the ring, it is harder for him to control his Occlumency.

38.) The whole Bathilda Bagshot thing. Why didn't Hermione tell Harry the woman was speaking Parseltongue? You'd think she would have recognized it, or at least been more suspicious! Speaking of which, why was there a trap there in the first place? I'm not listing this as a complaint, because maybe I just don't remember, after my trying-to-block-out-the-7th-book-phase.

Bagshot/Nagini didn't speak until Hermione was downstairs and Harry was upstairs with her/it.

43.) Peter's death. Yeah, of course I wanted it to happen, but the way it was done was lousy. He kills himself, after Harry reminds him that he has a life debt? I suppose he really was a moron.

Ah, but see, he DOESN'T kill himself. The silver hand kills him; he had Harry in his grasp, he could have killed Harry, but by allowing the grasp to weaken, by purposefully allowing Harry to live, that was seen as being a traitor and the silver hand killed Peter. Remember how hard Ron and Harry tried to save Peter? Plus, it had been mentioned about how if Wormtail turned against Voldemort, than something unpleasant would happen.

52.) The untimely death of Fred Weasley. It should've been either both, or neither of them. And we have no idea how George took it. By the way, why weren't the twins fighting together?

The twins weren't together because they needed to take a group of people to guard the secret passageways. There are a few that still work, so they are going to separate the two so that they can cover more ground.

67.) Harry's kids, very cute, oh-so-predictably named. Yet another sign of the docile Ginny, none of them were named Fred or anything.

I'm pretty sure that Ginny would let George have a son named Fred like he does.

Things I agree with you:

31.) We were told Umbridge was going to be "tortured a little more", which I was really looking forward to seeing. Instead, all that happens is Harry stuns her and steals Moody's eye. Pretty poor comeuppance, if you ask me. She should've been put under the Cruciatus or something, the bitch.

Damn. Fucking. Straight.

53.) Lupin's and Tonks' deaths. Really, they should have been allowed to live, especially since JKR (for no reason I can fathom) spared all of the Malfoys, plus Umbridge, not to mention Fenrir Greyback. Sorry, I'm rambling again. They were such good characters; if they had to die, their deaths could have at least been more purposeful. And really, Tonks and Lupin should have been allowed to live happily together. I thought the goal of this thing was to prove that a werewolf could live in peace in the wizarding world. Lupin's death screws up the message. At least that's how I see it. And on a side note, I also don't understand how Dean could stand up to Dolohov in a duel, when Dolohov killed Lupin, and defeated Moody in the fifth book. Not knocking Dean, I'm sure he's a great wizard, but still, he only has a sixth-year education, while Moody and Lupin were adults who had many years of training.

Agreed.

I also agree that Neville (or even Tonks's mother) should have been the one to kill Bellatrix.

Have fun seeing all of the flames!

Wow. You're in college, huh? Well, I sure hope you aren't majoring in English, cause your grammar was TERRIBLE.

The whole "the 7th book stunk" thing? Honestly, only 10/20 of them didn't have anything to do with Ginny. The other 50/60 were all about her- alebit, some in very nit-picky ways- and were just another way of being able to make J.K.R. look like an incompetent author. J.K.R is awesome, and there is no reason for you to be picking on her.

Oh, and the other 10/20 reasons that weren't about Ginny were the actually understandable- as in, why you would complain- ones. The only one I kind of sort of agree with is the wandlore one- yeah, it was boring. But it wasn't pointless, it helped explain a lot of the magic. Oh, and I definetly wanted to see more fighting.

Otherwise, congratulations! Not only did you suceed in making people hate the 7th book, you made yourself- a college student, you claim- look like a whiny five year old baby. I hope you feel proud of yourself.

And if the book bothered you that much, then re-write it! Or is that to difficult for you? Oh, and just so you know, lists aren't allowed on this site. AND - this is a FANfiction site, not a haters site... Still, I hope this makes you feel REALLY accomplished. You must be soooooo proud!

To tell you the truth i found this completely useless.

1)i agree

2)yeah but voldy is too strong

3)it had happened wid a reason. Snape had given harry his memories. If his loyalty was to be found out be4 thn voldy would have killed him then n thr.

4)it makes complete sense.

5)i agree

6)i mean its not out of d blue. If u stay wid anyone ur full lyf u get kind of attached wid thm. He was suprised of why harry wasnt coming wid thm.

7)it is important.

8)but it was interesting to know it. It shows tht every human has a dark side how much good they r.

9)the complete ministry was infiltered.

10)is it even a reason?

11)agree

12)agree

13)who cares?

14) r u obessed wid ginny?

15)i dont think they planned it.

16)i am getting iritated

17)i agree

18)what type of reason is "because it happened in 7th book?

19)not ginny again

20) who cares?

N d others r also stupid. D only thing i agree is the epilouge.

No offense, but this is Horrible. Most of your reasons are really stupid. First of all:

-The Ginny thing. I mean, wtf? She's a minor character, and even though you don't get to see everything she does, it doesn't mean she doesn't do it!

-The trace was not invented randomly, it was mentioned since like Cos- It's not exactly called the trace but it's the fact that the ministry knows when he has done underage magic.

-JK answered in an interview that Dudley was starting to fear and hate what he had become (makes sense.) Therefore, it is suitable that he makes up (sort of) with Harry.

-Lily played a big part. I mean, it explained was Snape was good and therefore why he protected Harry and why he killed Dumbledore.

-The Dumbledore controversy was interesting, because even though he was dead, it affected Harry deeply.

-Most people in the Ministry were Death Eaters by then, they weren't going to do anything about Thicknesse being imperiused.

-Dromeda sounds completely stupid? You call that a reason?

-Like Molly explained in a previous book, when a war occurs people get married left and right, they also do stuff quickly, like have babies. Plus Remus and Tonks wanted a baby, Remus has led a horrible life, give him a break!

-Ginny does say something when Harry announces to leave, (even though though this is in book 6) but she stays strong. Because she is strong.

-The ghoul idea was genious.

-The Dumbledore will was genious.

-The polyjuice thing in Bill's wedding was geni- Look! You're pointing out all these stupid flaws which aren't flaws at all! And it was pretty clear (to me at least) when the polyjuice wore off.

-So you're saying that this book sucks because Bill is called William? :/

-The ghoul thing was quite believable, so it was no surprise the Death Eaters believed it.

-I do wonder why Voldy didn't just kill the Weasleys.

-Why did he "screw" Tonks? Because even werewolfs have sexual urges. And she is his wife.

-I do wish Umbridge would have been tortured abit, but we can't always get what we want.

-It would have made NO sense if the doe had been Ginny's!

-It wasn't really a coincidence that Ron saved Harry's life. I mean, they had said his name, and he was waiting out there. Then the patronus came along and when Ron saw Harry drowning, he went to help.

-Godrics Hollow helped in so many ways:

1. Harry found out who the blond guy who had the elder wand was (grindelwald).

2. He saw his parent's graves, and his old house(let's face it, he Had to do that before the end of the books.)

3. Hermione saw the Hallow's mark on the grave of the Peverells.

(Can't remember if there was more reasons)

- *Sigh* Hermione didn't know the woman was speaking in parseltongue because she didn't speak until she led Harry to a separate room for this very reason.

-Luna is AWESOME! She is one of the best characters in the books! (Haters gone hate)

-The legend of the deathly hallows was the whole point to the book! It's the name of the book! And it wasn't that hard to understand .

-Peter's death showed the deep bond between Harry and him because Harry had saved him earlier on. It wasn't great but it made perfect sense.

-Harry protecting Minerva's dignity is pure AWESOME! Gryffindors are chivalrous!

-The new Neville was AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME!

-Once again, I'm sure Ginny did do something in the battle, just because they don't tell you about it doesn't mean it's not there.

-Maybe Lupin and Tonks should be allowed to live, but this is a war! Not everyone is going to live just because it would be better for them to.

-I find the fact that Severus was good because he loved Lily quite interesting.

-The nickname "Sev" should not be a reason why the book is bad.

-This is the only thing I completely agree with you on- Dumbledore's plan was just luck.

-Harry did not die and come back to life, the piece of Voldy's soul in him was destroyed.

-The attack of house-elves was PURE FRIGGIN AWESOME! It finally showed them standing up for themselves!

-You do know it's would make absolutely no sense if Neville killed Bellatrix, Remus killed Greyback, and everyone killed exactly the person who made their lifes hell. It would just be too unrealistic.

-It's not sexist that the three girls were fighting Bellatrix without winning, after all, Bellatrix is also a woman, and she is just a really really really good fighter. I mean, she IS Voldy's right hand woman.

-What is your obsession with Ginny? She's only 16, it's not that terrible that her mother has to save her from a murderous, evil witch who was a brilliant dueller and who was trying to kill her.

-If you didn't like Voldy's curse rebounding and killing him, what would you have prefered? I thought it was perfect, as it meant Harry didn't actually have to become a murderer to defeat Voldy.

-I think Harry's come to terms with the fact that the people weren't dying for him, they were dying for a better future. Plus, the deaths haven't probably sunk in yet, and shouldn't they be happy that they are to expect a happy future?

-I hated Harry's children's names too.

Well that's all I guess. Oh, and lists like these aren't actually aloud by the way. It says so in the guidelines. I'm not going to report it, but you should have read the guidelines. After all it's called FANfiction, it's for fans, not haters.