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Well, okay, I can buy this... but then why was it such a big deal to "lose" it to Griphook, if they knew they could get it back again when "needed?"

I agree with Elphaba that the later books were rather dark, but I liked that about them... even for kids, these are good lessons to learn about how "good" people go bad, and death in general. Much better than glossing everything over all the time.

And damn, I love that Rowling used words like "sychophantic" in the 7th book. Yay for children's writers who don't stray away from tough vocabulary... I hope all the kids who didn't know that word, stopped to look it up in the dictionary!! (It was an SAT word when I took the test 12 years ago.)

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