Lupin and Tonks were the last minute kills and Hagrid (maybe Malfoy) was the last minute save

Hagrid have so many near-death experiences because a lot of people have always kind of expected that he'd bite it.

Can't you see the camera, on ground level, slowly rise while circling Harry, who stands up with both hands, the sun rising behind him in the final battle?

Mrs. Weasley calls Bellatrix a BITCH and kills her

wanted to join Hogwart's, but couldn't.

I did think it a bit much that practically every member of the Order of the Phoenix got killed by the end of the book.

It was nowhere near that many. Arthur, Molly, Bill, Charlie, George, Mundungus, Kingsley, Ron, Harry, Hermoine, Hagrid, McGonagall, Fleur, and a bunch of minor characters (Doge, Diggle, Figg, Sturgis, etc) all survived. Only seven members died during the series.

1. Colin was a member of the D.A. So even if he wasn't at the school he could have received the signal and come. It seems a lot of the D.A. members were poised to respond when Harry returned.

2. That occurred over the summer, when there were no students at Hogwarts and presumably staffing and security were low. Since Dumbledore's death did not exactly go as planned it seems Snape sneaked into the office to receive further instructions.

Mrs. Weasley take charge and show her stuff. Better than having Harry, or even Ron and Hermione, deal with Bellatrix.

And that bit about Petunia finally explains her profound resentment against the wizarding world. Nice touch.

Although it was predictable by this time in the series, I was pleased that Harry and Ginny finally got together. I had been rooting for Ginny since The Chamber of Secrets. Like Hermione, she had spunk.

The biggest letdown by far was how Voldemort was killed off in just one measly paragraph. We spent 7 books dreading this man and he goes in just a few sentences. The whole way it was handled was very clumsy. It was unbelievable to me and disappointing. Harry just appears dead and the man doesn't even go to confirm anything. He doesn't even look at him, get near him, and never notices the umpteen times Harry is opening his eyes and looking around. Then he trusts the whole thing to of all people the bumbling Malfoys who had botched things up before. No way. And he lets Harry's good friend cradle and carry the body instead of placing it in a state of humiliation like the rest of his victims. There were so many problems with it it could take paragraphs just to point them all out. At best, it was farcical. And seeing as to how the whole series was based on this plotline, it was handled very carelessly by JK who I felt got caught up in the semantics of everything else (like trying to find a paragraph for everything single character Harry ever had a run-in with in every book) and totally blew off the main premise of the entire series.

Next, we have the same problem as I have seen in all of the books. Harry never really does anything amazing. Everything that happens seem by luck. This book did not fail to prove the point. Gringott's and Hogsmeade were the worst examples. When JK can't think of a way out, just have something or someone suddenly appear to help to take them all away to safety. It was so predictable and happened so many times that frankly, it got old for me.

This book still left alot of loose ends open. We never found out what Harry's parents did and unlike JK stated, I guess it didn't matter to the plot line. We don't really know what became of alot of folks, and for the main ones, all we know if that they were able to have kids. For me, it wasn't much better than the Sopranos. What does it mean to the reader to know that Harry married Ginny and had 3 kids? That doesn't tell them much. Why include it?

There were a few redeeming qualities (the whole episode with Snape was the only part of the book that really affected me) but overall, I did feel somewhat letdown and had to remind myself that it was just a children's book. I am certainly glad that this series is over but sad because it could have been done somewhat better. I am amazed at the critics who are declaring this a "literary classic". I guess it doesn't take much these days.

Why would Teddy Lupin be going to Hogwarts? Wouldn't he have graduated by then (being 19 years old)?

He wasn't going to Hogwarts, he was seeing Victoire off, you can guess that she is like 16 or so.

Why would you expect a huge long drawn-out duel between Harry and Voldemort? How could Harry possibly win something like that against Voldemort? He's certainly not going to be able to cast spells faster than Voldemort or know more spells than Voldemort. We're talking about a wizard who can't even apparate or do non-verbal spells consistently yet.

It was the way he inspired people to do things for him and his willingness to sacrifice himself for them that did the trick.

For me, it was the fact that he bravely sought out Voldemort, knowing he had to die. I didn't really care that he wasn't some amazing wizard.

They got out of Gringotts by taking advantage of the dragon, which was already there ostensibly as an obstacle. It didn't just appear out of nowhere. As for Hogsmeade, it's been foreshadowed for most of the series that the barman was Aberforth Dumbledore, and it's entirely plausible that he would help them.