I am eager to get my hands on the seventh Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I am on a list at the library to be one of the first to borrow the book on Sat. It depends if the library gets the entire order or even half of it.
I have read all of the books in the past few years. This is the first time that I am waiting with all the fanatics to be the an early reader. I want to know how it ends, that is the point of reading all the books, right? To get to the finale and have all the answers?
Life isn’t really like that is it? We don’t ever get all the answers or we don’t always understand the answers life gives us as I stated in my blog yesterday.
A writer like J.K. Rowling gets that. Her story is not a happy, little princess story (and they lived happily ever after). It is a story about real life in a fantasy world. I expect the characters will grow and they will have understanding of life but they will not be unscathed.
I am eager to see where J.K. Rowling ends the story. What will the message be? I like to think that Harry will live and overcome evil but be changed forever, much like Frodo in Lord of the Rings. I do anticipate this book to be darker than all the others. I am always surprised, often what I think will happen does not.
I will know in a few days until then if you have a guess on how you think the series will end please share!
Do you love to read? I love to read. This is something fairly new to me because when I had to read in school I hated it. I would try to read an assignment in college and when I finished not one word sunk into my head. I would wait for the teacher’s discussion in class. Later in my college career I wouldn’t even attempt the reading assignments because I already told myself it wouldn’t sink in (more of that negative self talk).
I don’t know what changed but about four years ago I started devouring books. I felt like I was at a point in my life where I needed to do something to advance myself but I didn’t have the money or resources to go to college. The public library popped into my head and I headed there right away. My motto became, “If I have a question the answer is at the library.”
I would think of a topic and search it. I found so many wonderful books that helped me when I didn’t know which way to turn. I found the library consoling when I lost my dad. When you go through loss you have so many questions and most people don’t want you to talk about your loss. They think they are doing you a favor. I was able to find strength and answers at the library.
I have a great library only a few minutes from my home. If a book I am looking for is not at my library then it usually is somewhere in the district, which consists of 10 or 15 smaller libraries. I can request a book from a district library and within a couple days (usually one or two) I can pick the book up at my library.
I got my husband into reading about three years ago. He hurt his back and reading was the one thing he could do while laying a crossed the bed in pain. Now we both visit the library weekly. We can be spotted at the library at least twice a week, sometimes three times a week.
I have 23 books checked out right now. I have one fiction book, a couple books on home improvement ideas, a blogging book, a website promotion book, a few self help books, an autobiography, a book on spiritual connections and a few others.
And, I have to admit some of those 23 items are movies. We borrow DVDs and VHS tapes from the library too. We don’t always get the latest releases. We have to put those on hold and wait but it is free and we borrow the movies for 7 days. You can’t beat that. We used to spend a lot of money renting movies because we tend to watch movies more then television.
I have been able to read so many books that I probably would not have read if I was purchasing them.
The library is an adventure. If you haven’t visited your local library lately get there soon. You will discover the library is not the library you grew up with!
I am looking forward to it. I am almost on the edge of my seat so I hope it is better than the Sopranos finale.
How will J.K. Rowling end the series?
What is going to happen? I am sure every Harry Potter fan has a guess as to what might happen in the final book. Of course, there will be surprises. Rowling has surprised me with every book so far so I really have no clue what to expect.
I wouldn’t be surprised if either Sirius (Harry’s Godfather who “died” in book five) or Dumbledore (the Head Wizard of Hogwarts who died in book six) will come back. When Sirius died he went into a mysterious archway in the Ministry of Magic and never came back?? Why can’t he come back? Where did he go?
As for Dumbledore, was it really Dumbledore that died? I am not so sure. Rowling has done the old switcheroo before. I think of Gandalf in Lord of the Rings, he was left for dead early on in the series and he showed up later alive and well - maybe even better. It is hard to believe than an old, wise wizard like Dumbledore could be killed so easily.
How about Snape? What is going on there? Dumbledore trusted Snape even though he once was a Death Eater for the Dark Lord. Dumbledore supported Snape over and over when Harry didn’t trust Snape. Was Dumbledore double-crossed by Snape or is Snape and Dumbledore double-crossing the Dark Lord?
My vote in the later. Probably because I love Dumbledore, I can’t imagine the grandfatherly, wise wizard not being in the final book. He is the bridge between wizarding (is that a word?) generations. He knew Voldemort as a young man, when he was Tom Riddle, and he fought him when he became the Dark Lord was gaining power years earlier. How could be so easily eliminated? I just don’t buy it.
(I just went to www.harrypotter.warnerbros.com to view the trailer for the new movie based on book five coming out in July, it looks pretty cool.)
I know the last book will be entertaining and hopefully revealing. This book will be different than the others, where the first six books have always followed the same pattern - opening in the summer near Harry’s birthday, then on to Hogwarts at the end of summer, through the school year and usually ending with Harry and friends heading home for summer holiday - Harry and friends will not be going to Hogwarts in the seventh year. At least that is what Harry said at the end of book six.
I will be counting the days until I have the book in my hand. Despite each book getting bigger I usually whip right through it within a few days (if I have the time to spare and I usually make time) and I plan to share my opinion here.
Feel free to share with me what you think is going to happen in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
