After Harry decided on sacrificing himself, I accepted his death but I was so glad when he came back. I was really happy that no one from the trio died, because that would ruin the chance of a happy ending
Yes but I though the whole point of the book, or at least one of its central theme, was to show that death is not a sad ending, merely the next adventure as
Dumbledore put it.
Let me take the example of
Neo for the
Matrix series. I do not mean to compare the trilogy and the books qualitatively (the two last movies were steaming piles of poo), but think of the ending.
Neo is prepped in the two previous movie to understand he has to sacrifice himself to save those he love. At the end he dies but that still an happy ending because he triumphed (from death, because he accepted it, and from
Agent Smith, because of, not technical superiority (he was beaten), but his knowledge of love which allowed his own sacrifice).
I thought Harry might suffer a similar fate, that would have been so great a message.
I always loved how JK wasn't too cutesy and included strong themes in a child book. To me it made it less silly than other child books and that's what made it successful with adults too, imo.
She kept banging on about
'there are things much worst than death' but at the end, there was apparently not.
Did Harry defeat Voldemort purely by luck? The only reason he won was because the Elder wand recognized him as the master and rebounded the Avada curse to Voldemort.
If Voldy and Harry actually dueled properly, like two different wands, I'm sure Harry would've gotten his butt handed to him.
I just feel that Harry won by fluke.
Harry answered your question in
The Plan in the Flaw and
Albus give further details in
King's Cross. I suggest you read this chapters carefully.
It was never about skill.
Harry was never a greatly skilled wizard, he would never have beaten
Voldy or any death eater really, would he have to duel them in fair fights. He was an average wizard (even compared with his classmates) with limited skills (expelliarmus and expecto patronum were about the only charms he was remarkably good about, none of wich could harm or kill -which tells us something about him, BTW).
The whole point in that
Voldy was killed by his own fear of death, which brought him to do foolish choices. He basically signed his death warrant the day he chose to act on the prophecy. It's all explained in the books.
I loved his death because he was killed
exactly like the first time seven years ago, by his own curse, which show that the most greatly skilled wizard never
ever learned a thing (or at least the only thing that mattered), he his the only character to never evolves, it's poetic justice. It's fit for him.
Great death.
But Hagrid's done magic before. He even attended Hogwarts...for a couple of years, anyway.
The
Dudley thing was, I think, the first time he had done magic after Hogwards. Do we have examples of
Hagrid doing magic at Hogwards (during harry time, that is)? JK never said the character never done it before no?
One question I had was... how did Neville pull the Gryffindor Sword from the Sorting Hat to kill Nagini if the goblin Griphook stole it back at Gringotts? Am I missing something? I thought that was a major plot hole.
Contrary to what
Griphook though, the sword was of
Godrick ownership since it was magically bonded to the hat. Any true Griffendor would always be able to retrieve the sword in retribution for a act of great bravery, regardless of were the sword is/was. Or at least that's my take. Thought I would love to have seen
Griphook face when it disappeared...
) suggests that Luna do it instead.
It sounds a bit important to me though 
so I'm hoping she'll be in the 7th movie. well Ginny damn her 
And the part about James giving Harry & Ginny's love to him was cute...
