Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

I'm sorry. I LOVED the ending of Half-Blood Prince. Loved it. Great background into Tom Riddle, Snape, and what I thought was a good set up to the final fight.

While I appreciate that they didn't go back to Hogwarts as students in this book, I still was very disappointed that it followed the same structure as the others books. I thought this would start up ramped up but instead we followed the same formula of meeting the Dudley's, going to Ron's, and hundreds and hundreds of pages of a wedding, Dumbledore's backstory, and other plot lines that didn't really advance the plot at all.

Even when they were searching for Horcruxes and finally started their quest....nothing happened???

I don't get the Snape “redemption.” I don't think his obsession with Lily was “love.” The epilogue was kinda ridiculous. Malfoy's character was completely thrown away when I really feel like so much more could've been done with him (although I guess it's kinda history repeating itself for the Weasleys and Malfoy's with the kids).

Ultimately, after Half Blood Prince, I had very different expectations for this last one and am not happy with how it unfolded. I was bored way too often.