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Originally Posted by lizziness
I was however totally shocked about the Doe being Snape's Patronus... I was entirely convinced until the end that the Doe belonged to Ginny...to go with Harry's Stag.
I thought that it might have been Snape helping him find the sword, but I was a little hesitant...
I thought about Harry's patronus being a stag because his memory (from what I guessed) was of seeing his parents in the mirror from book 1. When Lupin told him to think of a happy memory to produce a patronus, he sortof hinted that it wasn't really a memory, but it was all he had. His was a stag because it involved thinking about his father. Lily's was a doe to go with James' stag...and Snape's was a doe because he was thinking about memories with her.
Before the book came out, I fully expected Snape's patronus to be something to do with alliegance to Lily and Dumbledore, so I was actually expecting a phoenix holding a lily, or something along those lines. But, before book 7, we never knew what Lily's patronus was...just James'.
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Originally Posted by Mummy_Tummy
I figure Victoire was Fleur and Bill's daughter cos it's a French name.
That is exactly what I concluded as well.
Honestly, the only part of the book that I was disappointed in at all, was the epilogue. Rather than having it play out in a scene showing the trio with their kids and names...I would have rather had it sorta like the end of the movie "Can't Hardly Wait", where it might have said "Neville became the Herbology professor at Hogwarts, Minerva McGonagall was headmistress for such-and-such years there, Lucius Malfoy went to Azkaban, etc.
Rather than a full chapter on the trio and their kids, I would have rather known a sentence or two about most of the remaining characters-where they ended up.