Yes!

Went this morning to buy it, was there slightly after 8:00. They had a midnight sale, here in cologne, but I didn't want to have the book last night, I would have had to read it, then! So I rather slept, though only from around 2 to 7:30.
There were some others in the otherwise deserted city, one with a bag of bread rolls in his arms, and every single one of them bought two exemplars of the book.
Then I proceeded to eat cake, drink cappuccino and coke, slouch on my bed with Elia and readreadreadread, with some breaks for more cake, coke or the loo (and one for feeding the boycat who *loved* the fact that there were his two favourite humans on the bed with him, apparently doing nothing, too. XD).

13 hours solid reading (and I would have been faster, but it was a joint venture and thusly more fun) and I'm through. Pointing to my last entry I may repeat: GAH!


And now, off to the spoilers:
(Warning: Makani-isms ahead. She showed me squeeing embarassingly is okay in fandom.)

ARGH NOOOOO! SNAPEYPOOO!!!!
But hey, he got to be headmaster and aaaaalll suffering hero like. Though, come on, "Look at me..." that was a low blow, J.K. Loooowwww. *wail*
Perfect, of course, but still... Snapeypoo....


Things I loved:
On the topic of one R.A.B.: YES!! Isn't it a marvelous thing how all those intelligent brains of fandom came up with nearly all the answers? I loved the two adjoining rooms, and Kreacher fighting under his banner...
Kreacher was an unexpected bit I loved to pieces, anyway.

And YAY for character realism. Ron *does* stupid things, Malfoy *is* a spineless ferret and Snape is not a nice man and quite futureless anyhow.
And of course it takes a lot to let Harry grow into heroism. He doesn't crave to be a hero, he doesn't want power.
Both Remus and Albus seen from their most human and de-idolized side, beautifully done!
Hermine was nearly too cool and kickass and everything, but yeah, those brainless griffindor fools would have been dead on day one without her.

May nobody tell me J.K. didn't use some personal experience with the press, here. I am glad not to be famous at all.

YAY for Grimmauld place all shiny and homey and with steak and pie on top! Old house love!

Things that hurt:
Remus, Tonks and Fred, Snape (yes, ALTHOUGH it makes sense, still...), all those shiny secret hidden things in the Room of Requirement and Snape.
Nearly all of the frustrating middle part of the book, where they just had no *plan*. Damn those griffindor main characters!

Things I missed:
What about the veil, woman?! And thestrals, huh? I see a large new fanfiction looming there, I just should write it before someone is quicker. I won't write anything when somebody already did a great job with an idea.
How George is coping, well, maybe, *if* he is.

So, fandom, I dare you to make some Snape/Harry out of THAT canon. *sniffle* ... Can't think of anything anymore. Canon grew to be too strong, here. Daaamn. ;D

EDIT: On the whole I shouldn't have been but was very much surprised at the level of hurting realism in the book. I mean, she let Harry be the annoying teenager before, and she killed Sirius. But this feeling of helplesness, because you don't have all the information and therefore can't really plan... gosh. And all this death. Peter and Snape not *really* being able to change... just ouch.
No wonder her world is so intruiging. It fits neatly into reality. No, nothing can actually beat death. And yes, it's not fair. No, the adults don't always know better, and yes, all your actions have consequences.
Although, I really could have done without the no-plan-angst. I suffer from that in real life plentysome enough.

EDIT2: And another YAY for wartime illegal radio shows! Potterwatch!

Another EDIT: And: Albino peacocks. AHAHAAAAA!

Oh! Oh! Oh! And the Ravenclaw common room! Waaaah, so beautiful, and WHAT a cool way to open it up.



Allright, dear nearly totally empty flist, what do you guys think? :D

EDIT2: Dear God, fandom asplodes. I wish there were ways to ensure that one doesn't miss too much in ones little corner of fandom...