Ianna wrote: But I liked the DH ending better.

Are you serious? I thought the DH ending was one of the worst I had ever read. It was completely unbelievable, and pointless.

It was just a way for JKR to show how Harry respects Snape.

Not the epilogue. The living thing...the last chapter chapter.

Ah. Yeah, agree with you there.

Bleh...I felt it was too easy...He was thinking of food! It was like "meh, the Boy Lived Again"

The HBP ending invoked more emotion in the reader.

Edit: and I don't know about you, but I always remember books more, if the main character dies.

Well, that's cause the deaths got more notice.

I remember the books that I like. Whatever feels right for the story at the end, is what I like.

That's true.

But if there's no death, the story usually can still continue. A death closes it off so well.

But if he would have died, they'd probably continue it with Hermione and Ron's children or something random like that.

What if all three died?

The epilouge ruined the closure.

The Neville or Ginny or Luna....

Who says Neville gets married? He doesn't have much chance. ;)

Well, if Luna finds true love, Book 7 Neville will have no problem.

Ianna wrote: Well, if Luna finds true love, Book 7 Neville will have no problem.

Neville gets better in the later books, I find. Too much comic relief in the first few books.

He was pretty good in the first book. He stood up to the Golden Trio.

then he got petrified for it.

And he almost got burnt alive when he stood up to Lord V. ;)

But seriously, in the first few books he couldn't do anything, he needed Harry's help in the DA to actually manage to do some spells.

But he was using his father's wand. If he had his own wand from the beginning, who knows how good he could have been?


Anyway, about the poll, I chose Ptolemy's Gate. The only reason it wasn't an easy choice was because of the chapters THE PRINCE'S TALE and THE FOREST AGAIN in Deathly Hallows. After that, it felt slightly anti-climatic and the epilogue was downright icky. Everything else didn't really stand out in my mind.

PG was brilliant throughout and I loved the way the ending was structured: climax, the implied action of Nat and Bart, brief denouement (love all the loose and open ends), back to what actually happened, Bart's concise conclusion. So very spectacular.

Lucky Potion wrote: But he was using his father's wand. If he had his own wand from the beginning, who knows how good he could have been?

It was stated that wands worked better when handed down through families than new wands.

No, that's incorrect. It was stated that wands handed down through families have more of a connection than other wands that a person doesn't have allegiance to.