I found myself with a free afternoon and nothing pressing to do, so I was able to grab a book and have a nice long stretch of reading. Instead of starting a new book that I would have to put on hold the next day, I decided to just pick up Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and flip to the middle and dig in to it. Since we're going to see the final movie installment next week, I thought it would be the perfect thing to flip through so that I could reacquaint myself with some of the finer details. This is one of my favorites from the entire Harry Potter series. I thought it was quite daring to introduce an entirely new element, the Deathly Hallows, to the final stage of the book. If not done correctly, it could feel like she was making it up just to find a way to solve a story that she didn't have an ending for. But, the way she intertwined it with the horcruxes that were introduced specifically in book 6 and the invisibility cloak that was in the first book, made it feel like a natural progression of the story. Something that has always bothered me about the Harry Potter series is how Voldemort essentially takes the summers off in hunting for Harry. That never seemed terribly believable to me. But, the more detailed information about the protective spells on his family's home helped to give that more validity. This book also had a lot of loss. Everything did not end happily ever after, it ended well enough. People died, children were orphaned and lots of bad things happened. If that had not been the case, these books would not have held the interest of most of the readers.
7/4/11 - 180 minutes
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