I'm currently in the middle of rereading it for the second time (it's my 3rd time reading it total, and certainly not anywhere near my last). #7 is my personal favorite out of the whole series. It's also the one that made me cry the most :).

WARNING: those who haven't read it and don't want it spoiled, stop reading this comment and quickly move on to something else. :)

I don't think JKR could have done the last battle any better. That's my favorite part - from the time Harry returns from King's Cross Station with Dumbledore to the end. I could barely stop crying throughout that scene - the happy parts and the sad parts. At the part where Dobby died, I had to put the book down for a good five minutes because I couldn't see the words through my tears. And the happy and sad tears just flowed at the part where Kreacher leads the house elves out of the kitchen and says "Fight! Fight! Fight for my Master, defender of house-elves! Fight the Dark Lord, in the name of brave Regulus! Fight!" Occasionally, I'll just pull the book off my shelve, turn to the end, and just read that scene without reading any other. JKR had so many loose ends to tie up, and she managed to tie them them all up and do it in a masterful way.

#7 also holds fond memories for me: it was the first (and last) time my mom allowed me to go to one of those midnight publishing parties at a bookstore. My at-the-time best friend, a fellow H.P. fanatic, and I dressed up as Luna Lovegood and Professor Trelawney (I was Trelawney) and ran around the bookstore for several hours with other friends we met there, talking, eating up cafe food, playing games, and having a blast. After that, due to my friend's very tolerant mom (who held our place in line for those hours we were jumping all over the place), my friend, her mom, her brother, and I were about the fifth in the store to get our books. We were having a sleepover that night, but her mom wouldn't let us open the books until we got in the house. We went straight to her bed (which we'd beforehand set up with cushy reading pillows) and opened it immediatly. We always made sure to stay within the same two pages of each other, so we could momentarily exclaim, talk, laugh, or cry about the same thing, before delving back into the story. Then her H.P. reading mom (acting as only a parent can *sigh*) made us go to bed at only 2:00 am; and then her mom stayed up all night reading! Humph. We read through breakfast, but when my dad came to pick me up from her house, he was shocked about how little sleep we'd had and took away my book until I'd taken a nap. Parents. I still managed to finish it late that day, luckily. :)

Wow.....that's a lot of writing. You don't have to read it all, I apologize for my ranting.

But I love Deathly Hallows!

Actually DH was my least favorite of the series, maybe because all of my favorite characters died and Harry failed to stay dead. I found the epilogue unrealistic and rather too rosy-cheeked for my liking.

I'll admit Snape's memories were perfect, if predictable, and made me cry for a good ten minutes. On the other hand, the Dumbledore-Has-A-Past thing was too sudden and out of the blue, although not entirely unexpected.

She didn't kill half the people I though she was going to; I was sure that either Ron or Hermione would get the chop.

Of course I was very pleased that she didn't kill Draco, as he was up in my top ten list...

However she killed Snape, killed Bellatrix, killed Voldy, killed Fred...

Harry's coming back made absolutely no sense at all. I was not happy.

And there were hundreds of pages of aimless wandering that, while vital to the plot, were achingly boring to read.

Though... I did immensely enjoy the scenes involving Bellatrix. :)