** spoiler alert ** 
 Hmmm...so initial reaction: good and satisfying. Probably won't end up being my favorite of the 7, but it'll be up there. It was quite the page turner. And while I sped read through HP5, it wasn't because it was compelling, more that I wanted to finish it. And maybe I'm exaggerating when I say it was a page turner, nearer the end it was more of a page turner. I took a quick look at the chapter titles when I had finished the first few chapters, and I was surprised that Godric's Hollow was so far in. Anyways, I liked how very early on there was an immediate action scene with ramifications (Mad-Eye and Hedwig and George come to mind...I actually yelled "not Hedwig!"). 
 The "searching" for Horcruxes dragged a little in the middle. Oh! I almost forgot about Ron's desertion thing! I totally thought that he had just done it as part of some inside plan and was secretly watching them the whole time to protect them...I was kinda, not really right. And the whole Hallows thing was sprung on kind of oddly, but it was done interestingly enough by tying it into Dumbledore's whole "mysterious past". And OMG, I couldn't believe how affected I was by Dobby's death. And I loved Kreacher! Although, the first thing I thought of when he appeared was this little kid who was sitting close to me when I went to see the Order of the Phoenix movie and when Kreacher came on screen he was like "is that Dobby's grandpa?!". Ha! Awesome! (That kid in general was awesome, he made that movie hi-larious.) 
 I was on the fence about Harry being a Horcrux, so when I read that part, I was a little, well not surprised, but something like it. I figured he would die then, but then he didn't and I was happy. And oh! I totally had Hagrid down as set to die, and for a few chapters I thought I'd won, but he persisted and I don't get to win. Poor Lupin and Tonks whose death was nowhere near as emotional as Dobby's. And poor Fred :( Hmmm...what else had I suspected? Well I was totally on about Snape loving Lily, didn't suspect that backstory there, though. And I still think it was Lily who wrote in Snape's potions book! OMG, this is like the second time I've come back to edit something I remembered I wanted to say (why can't I just go to bed!). So how did the whole sword of Gryffindor work? How'd Neville get it back from the hat after the goblin had took it? 
 The happy ending seemed kind of lame and treacly, but i guess it was either that or be like J.R.R Tolkien and write like a billion appendices to your own universe...