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While I enjoyed a lot of it (Grindelwald backstory! Dobby represents! Neville the Barbarian!), we're definitely in the land of Harry Potter and the Land of Enforced Heteronormativity, where you're damned well either married or dead (or both.) (Neville, McGonagall, and Hagrid- and a few students, obviously- are the only exceptions among major characters that I can think of.) She works so hard at bowtie-ing so many plott and character arcs, most of the plot twists and deaths don't have anything like proper weight (Lupin's marriage and his death occur offstage? Does she stick pins into a Lupin voodoo doll at night?)- although when she does work a scene up properly (Dobby), it can be incredibly wrenching.

I don't know what to say about Snape's death; he shaped his own life so relentlessly, I really thought that his end would follow suit- his choosing to break an Unbreakable Vow to Voldemort, or some such. I felt very strongly that she wrote this book specifically to close the door on fandom- not in any sort of a meanspirited way, but this book does feel- preplanned plot or no- like a deliberate attempt to close the door.

So, when *does* he wake up to find himself married to Suzanne Pleshette...?

...and suddenly, I find myself wondering if Phish ever covered this. Bat Out of Hell for one of the Halloween costume shows, perhaps?

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