I finally finished reading the Harry Potter series

[Lucas-Rio]

rocketpig said:

Lucas-Rio said:

I disagree. I thought it was great.

The only thing I did not like with the Deathly Hallows is that when you have the three, you are the master of death. But in fact it change nothing to be master of death. No special powers or ability. It is just owning the 3 hallows not more. I thought Rowling took an easy shortcut.

it would have been more epic if Harry had special powers with that.

The superior wand plot was a good find as it was the perfect way to organize the ending. The only thing not logical with that Wand was Dumbledore able to crush Grindelwald when the dark wizard had the Wand.

How was that possible? We will never know. But the powerful Wand was the perfect link from Dumbledore to Harry.

The "master of death" bit was nothing more than fable. It was called as such when Dumbledore said it was more likely that three very powerful wizards created the items, not that there was an actual battle with death. Voldemort's folly was believing in the mythology of the devices as a cure-all for his problems (an anti-deus ex machina, if anything).

I also wondered about how Dumbledore defeated Grindelwald when he had the Elder Wand. But given the rest of the book's theme about how the pursuit for power and objects is nothing more than folly, I'll give Rowling the benefit of the doubt and just say the point is that nothing is "all powerful", even the Elder Wand. It's just a really, really good wand.

Even if it was not "all powerful", it was still a very very powerfull wand as we have seen. Grindelwald was no slouch and was close to Dumbledore abilities. im losing with the wand was illogical for me but we accept it as no indications at how the fight went is given.