I finally finished reading the Harry Potter series

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themanwithnoname said:

rocketpig said:

themanwithnoname said:

Meh, Deathly Hallows is just bad. Elder Wand lore that comes from nowhere, makes no sense and is just typical lazy deus ex machina meant to drive the plot. That and the final battle is pretty anti-climactic and the epilogue is just atrociously "and they lived happily ever after." I would be happier with the series if I had never read the last book.

You can dislike the Elder Wand storyline (and I'm not crazy about it) but it's definitely not a deus ex machina. Nothing is solved through the Elder Wand. The Elder Wand doesn't fix or really even change anything. It's an item to pursue that Voldemort thinks will fix his problem when the point is that, ultimately, his failure is pursuit of objects in the first place.

With or without the Elder Wand, Voldemort loses. I think it was a mistake to make such a fuss over the Disarming of Malfoy/Snape but that's really just me quibbling over details.

Perhaps not in the strictest sense of the word, but it's still an incredibly convenient thing to invent just to give Voldemort something to try to attain. If it was mentioned in earlier books, I wouldn't be as down on it as I am, but if you consider the implications the events of the book have on wand ownership, there is a fundamental logic breakdown with how the Elder Wand is handled in the book. I just think that there was a better solution than inventing a whole new lore in the last book of the series because she couldn't think of something better for Voldemort to do. That's always been the way I've felt. It just comes off as incredibly convenient and clear signs that she had no plan for how this series was going to end from the start. Some people may not have a problem with that, but I do.

The Wand gave Harry the opportunity to kill a superior wizard.

But this is clearly not the most important. The most important was bringing Voldemort back to a mortal state. It is the first mystery of the serie. Why Voldemort can't die?  And I think it's very clear that Roowling knew from the beginning what's going on with that and the answer was completelly logic.

This was the most important point for me. The motivation to kill Harry was there too.

The Wand was a mean justified by the fact that Harry's wand was protected against his own Wand. It is mainly a mean. Rowling could have said that Harry sniped Voldemort through a window with a Avada Kedavra but I guess that she wanted to show that Voldermort was too powerful and that he had to die by its own hand.