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So many thoughts and nowhere coherent to begin, so let's just start with the whole shippiness of it all...

Harry and Ginny have been very much my secondary ship from the get-go, with Ron and Hermione being my first love. So you can imagine how I felt about developments here! I really want to know what else Hermione could smell in the love potion, and when Harry realised that the smell from the Burrow was Ginny, I did squeal... I thought the first kiss was great, and loved how the relationship progressed... and the break-up at the end killed me dead, all the more so for the fact that it was perfectly in character for each of them. And, assuming they both survive to the end of book 7, it's not left the door closed for them.

Speaking of doors not being closed, I resolutely believe that Ron and Hermione will be together by the end of the series, always assuming that Ron doesn't sacrifice himself to save Harry/Hermione, as I've been doomsaying for the last few years. The scene where he admits that he wouldn't prefer it if she went off with Cormac, while Harry does his best not to listen made me grin like a fool, and when he mumbled her name in the hospital wing, that sealed it for me. Bit of gittish behaviour over the whole thing with Lavendar, but, like Josh and Donna in season three of West Wing it needed someone else, a third party, to realistically keep them apart for a while longer, otherwise it was all going to be a bit one-notey. But with her crying on his shoulder at the funeral, I have not yet abandoned ship!

Remus/Tonks - came out of nowhere, but I am not adverse to it at all! Sorry demon_faith, I'm sure you're grinding your teeth at that one...

Fleur - annoyed me at the start, and like Mrs Weasley I was expecting her to run the other way when she saw what had happened to Bill. But I loved her reaction and the hug from Mrs Weasley was adorable.

Mrs Weasley's reaction to seeing Bill like that? Made me cry.

I can't believe that Snape killed Dumbledore. And I'm a mess of confusion, because I'm like, I can't believe Dumbledore was so wrong about him. Has Snape really been playing them for fools all this time, really supporting Voldemort? Because there must be something more that he told Dumbledore to make Dumbledore believe that he'd switched sides in the first place, more so than just remorse over what happened to Lily and James... because I just can't believe that Dumbledore was so wrong about him. And the actual scene where Snape comes out onto the roof and Dumbledore sees him and says "Severus...please..." ... I don't know, there's just something about it... I can't help thinking that he's not saying "Severus, please don't," but nearly that he's asking Snape to do it... which makes as little sense to me as it does to any of you, but I don't know, it's something that came into my head... or did Dumbledore know about the Unbreakable Vow, and what Snape was about to do?

This was a great book for Draco - for the first time, I'm feeling honestly sorry for the little bastard... the scene where he was in the bathroom with Moaning Myrtle was heart-breaking. Also, that fact that he couldn't go through with killing Dumbledore, that he dropped his wand... he's in over his head, no doubt about it.

The Horcruxes were a good touch, also nice way of setting up Book7. Like half the world, I don't care that we don't have a middle initial for Regulus Black;what with the way they kept dropping his name in there, if the R.A.B. of the note is not him, I'll... well, I don't know what I'll do but it'll be the last thing I ever thought I'd do! (Answers on a postcard!) And on that note, I wonder about the scene in OoTP where Harry sees the family tree for the first time and Sirius is telling him all about the family...there's a list of the things that they find in the room, and one of them is a locket that couldn't be opened by anyone. Coincidence? I don't think so! And the fact that Mundungus was being light-fingered... interesting.

Harry going to Godric's Hollow??? Oh dear God, bring it on!

Snape being made DADA teacher was a shock, but not as much as the fact that after him wanting it for so long, after it being announced with great pomp and fanfare, all we get to see of it is one lesson and then nothing else. I'd've liked to have seen more of what he was like as a teacher of that subject, it's one of the reasons I wouldn't have minded the book being a couple of pages longer; that and the fact that I'd've liked to have seen more of Remus and Tonks.

I'm sure I have more to say. But that'll do for the moment.