Aah...the final book in the series--number 7. Harry and the Hogwarts crew are 17 and missing their final year at school because He-Who-Cannot-Be-Named is back with a full army of death eaters, spiders, giants, and other forces of evil--and will stop at nothing to kill Harry and take over the entire (wizarding and muggle) world. We all waited for the finale and it is definitely worth reading, but it is my LEAST favorite of the bunch; it feels both rushed and overfull of detail--complex and convoluted plot twists and back story explanations that are kept for the final book clearly to prevent anyone from foreseeing the storyline; the price for this is a book over full of new details and characters and secrets that remind me a lot of a Sherlock Holmes movie mystery where no one but Sherlock could EVER have figured out the case. --Don't get me wrong--I love Harry and have read every book. I really like a lot of the characters and have enjoyed the series immensely. But this one was clearly not up to the standards of the first books. The love plots make Ron and Harry and especially Hermione and Ginny much more boring. Ron is inexplicably much more reasonable and heroic. Hermione is dull when he is around. Almost every character we have EVER met makes a brief appearance (including dead ones) and to be perfectly honest, i still can't explain everything that happened that led to the happy ending.
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