Thank god this is over, the final book in the Harry Potter series was the worst of the lot, up until this point I was able to read each book without hitting any walls, but this one was full of so much filler that I struggled to the end. I guess they call it a slow burner?

Harry Potter is on the run, he won't let anybody help him, which he says is because he doesn't know who to trust but I think it is because he just doesn't know what he is doing. There are huge chunks of pages where nothing happens, the kids are just siting in a tent....at one point they read another book. The end battle scenes are good, would have been spectacular if Rowling had shown it from different peoples perspectives, but she refused to move away from the focus on Harry, which was a real shame cos the battle was big enough to have left you out of breath. She does a good job of tying up loose ends, answering all those questions about Dumbles and revealing whether Snape was actually good or evil, to me he'll always be the hero of this series. As for the epilogue??? this was one of the most sickening sweet things I've ever read, almost threw up, I would have loved Rowling to make one last little twist.

For the series as a whole it gets 2 stars from me. I am impressed that Rowling got millions of kids around the world reading some pretty hefty books, what I don't get is the adults and why they love it so much, there are better books out there...obviously not To The Lighthouse cos that is still the worst book ever!