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   Message 27,180 of 28,343   
   Tim Bruening to All   
   Re: Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly   
   01 Aug 16 03:48:45   
   
   From: tsbrueni@dcn.davis.ca.us   
      
   Great moments: Harry being shown to the Sword of Gryffindor by a doe   
   Patronus.  Harry and Ron retrieving the sword.   
      
   Ron destroying the locket Horcrux.   
      
   Ron using the Deluminator to rejoin Harry and Hermione.   
      
   Dobby rescuing Harry et al from the Malfoy mansion, giving his life in the   
   process.   
      
   Griphook demanding the Sword of Gryffindor as the price for helping Harry et   
   al raid the vault of Bellitrix Lestrange.  Would it do any good to tell   
   Griphook that they need the sword to destroy Voldemort?   
      
      
   The goblins getting all bureaucratic with the fake Lestrange, demanding to see   
   her wand.   
      
   The wild tram ride in the Gringotts underground.   
      
   The multiplying objects in Lestrange's vault.   
      
   Harry, Ron, and Hermione riding a dragon out of Gringotts.   
      
   Harry seeing into Voldemort's mind and discovering that Voldemort knows that   
   his Horcruxes are in danger and that there is one at Hogwarts, connected to   
   Ravenclaw.   
      
   Harry et al entering Hogwarts via a tunnel connecting the Room of Requirement   
   to Alberforth's pub, to the cheers of the Hogwarts resistance movement led by   
   Neville Longbottom.   
      
   The ouster of Headmaster Snape.   
      
   The teachers erecting a forcefield over Hogwarts.   
      
   McGonagal ordering the statues to defend the castle.   
      
   Filch attempting to lock up the Slytherin students in the dungeon, but they   
   quickly escape.   
      
   Ron and Hermione getting into the Chamber of Secrets to fetch some basilisk   
   fangs o use on the cup Horcrux.  Ron and Hermione hugging.   
      
   Neville destroying a bridge to dump a bunch of DEs in a chasm.   
      
   Harry finding the Ravenclaw Diadem/Horcrux in the Room of Requirement, only to   
   be attacked by Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle.  The Room of Requirement catching on   
   fire, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione rescuing Draco and Goyle on their way out.   
      
   The Battle of Hogwarts, with DEs, Dementors, giant spiders, giants, etc.   
      
   Harry receiving Snape's memories as he dies and viewing them in the Penseive.    
   This changes Harry's whole perspective.   
      
   He discovers that Snape had been Dumbledore's man in the Death Eaters   
   organization all along!  Snape had been in love with Harry's mother Lilly, so   
   turned against Voldemort when Voldemort decided to go after the Potters.    
   Snape went to great lengths to    
   curry favor with Voldemort, even killing Dumbledore (at Dumbledore's own   
   request) and telling Voldemort when Harry would be moved from his aunt's house.   
      
   Harry learning that HE has part of Voldemort's soul in him, so must die at   
   Voldemort's hands to destroy that portion. Voldemort killing Harry, and   
   Harry's soul waking up in King's Cross Station, where he meets Dumbledore.   
   Harry   
      
   Neville Longbottom defying Voldemort. Molly Weasley killing Belitrix   
   Lestrange. Neville pulling the Sword of Gryffindor out of the Sorting Hat and   
   beheading the snake. Harry and Voldemort flying through the air in the form of   
      
   Great moments: Harry disintegrating Voldemort. Harry proving that the Elder   
   Wand is his. The Elder Wand had belongd to Dumbledore, then Draco disarmed   
   Dumbledore and thus won the want, then Harry disarmed Draco and won the wand.   
      
   Harry breaking the Elder Wand and throwing the pieces away.  In the book,   
   Harry used the Elder wand to repair his own, then placed it back in   
   Dumbledore's tomb.  Why didn't he repair his own wand in the movie?   
      
   Epilogue 19 years later. Harry's son Albus Severus is deathly afraid that   
   he'll be sorted into Slytherin! Harry tells Albus that he's named after two   
   Hogwarts headmasters, one of them being a Slytherin, and one of the bravest   
   men Harry ever   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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