Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
Not a Destination, but a Journey…
The End of an Era.
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A Journey - Not A Destination....
Advantages: Fast paced, intelligent, twists and turns and revelations like you wouldn't believe... Disadvantages: None, actually. Not even that it;s the last book. Nothing. It was perfect!
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
Not a Destination, but a Journey…
The End of an Era.
For some time now I have had the date of the 21st July circled in my diary. Not another midwife appointment, or a reminder to myself of how many weeks to go till my baby puts in an appearance. No. The golden day that the final instalment of Harry Potter was due to hit the bookshelves of bookshops and music shops and ... ...of piles and piles of Harry Potter books. If you were a visitor from Mars, I’d take a guess that you’d be seriously thinking that the human translation for WHSmiths was, in fact, Harry Potter Book Store. Apparently, 15 Harry Potter books every second were sold by WHSmiths alone on Saturday 21st July 2007. Wonder if that’s a world record on book sales…?
We trotted over to the nearest pile of said books and stood beside an older couple ... more
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
Not a Destination, but a Journey…
The End of an Era.
For some time now I have had the date of the 21st July circled in my diary. Not another midwife appointment, or a reminder to myself of how many weeks to go till my baby puts in an appearance. No. The golden day that the final instalment of Harry Potter was due to hit the bookshelves of bookshops and music shops and green grocers (yes…green grocers…) the world over. My plan was to get into town early, but having stayed up half the night reading a baby book (Stand and Deliver, review to follow!), I snored my way past 11 o’clock, and so we had a bit of a late start. Himself came with me, to carry the brolly and the bags (books are heavy, after all!), and in the spitting rain we bused it into town and made our way straight to WHSmiths. To be fair, I’ve never seen anything quite like it in my life.
The shop was full not just of people, but of piles and piles of Harry Potter books. If you were a visitor from Mars, I’d take a guess that you’d be seriously thinking that the human translation for WHSmiths was, in fact, Harry Potter Book Store. Apparently, 15 Harry Potter books every second were sold by WHSmiths alone on Saturday 21st July 2007. Wonder if that’s a world record on book sales…?
We trotted over to the nearest pile of said books and stood beside an older couple who were curiously examining the cover of one of the children’s editions – the lady was querying with her husband as to what the difference was between the two books. I explained that the scary cover was for grown ups, and the colourful cover was the children’s edition – same book, different cover. She seemed relieved not to have to work out which one to buy, and went off with one to find a queue. I couldn’t help hoping she had read all the others first, or she’d be terribly confused by this one!
I picked up my copy (grown up cover, very stylish!) and a few other bits and bobs, and Himself wandered off with them to find a queue and pay the pennies. £10.99 for the book, though we’d seen it elsewhere for a couple of pounds cheaper.
At Home, with My Book.
As soon as we arrived back home, I plonked myself down on the sofa in the front room, while Himself put the kettle on. I found myself quite restless, and ended up going upstairs to change, into the kitchen to get coffee and sustenance, and just generally wandering round, unwilling to start reading. It was very strange, knowing that this was the end, and that once I had finished the book, there would be no more. I ended up with my feet in a foot bath and a baby magazine in front of me, which I read cover to cover before I picked up Harry, so it was early evening before I got past the first page. I wonder if other people have been feeling that same sense of wishing to put off the inevitable. It came as quite a surprise, considering I’ve been waiting for the book with sweated brows since the moment I finished the last one!
Eventually, curled up on the sofa, and then later, propped up in bed with a thousand pillows, I immersed myself in this magical world I’ve been visiting, off and on for years, and began to learn Harry’s final task, his final development, his final days and weeks and months.
Did JK Write a Good One?
Did she ever. I have to say, and I know I said this about the last one, but this book is by far and away the best of all the Harry books. It moves so fast, it keeps you on your toes, and it keeps you guessing, right until the very last page. Usually in a book review, I would include a little plot detail. A kind of “he does this, she does that, wonder if that will happen, well read for yourself,” kind of thing. But I’m not going to do that here. There is too much to give away and the last thing I want is for any of you who have not read Harry’s final instalment to be pipped to the post and informed of the ending before you travel the journey yourself. And it is a journey worth travelling. In all my years of being a bookworm, a devourer of printed pages, I have always read the last page first, wondering what the end will be and spending glorious moments throughout the book trying to work out how it will reach the conclusion I know to be true. Not with this one. This is the first book I can ever remember reading where I didn’t skip to the end first. It seemed very important to me to take it a page at a time and to follow the journey, to follow the clues and to let the story tell itself, instead of trying to second guess it. Somehow I think I enjoyed it all the more for that.
Does Harry Die?
Well if you think I’m going to answer that question, you’ve got another thing coming! There are deaths in the book, shocking ones, sad ones, right from the beginning of the book. So don’t think you’ll be waiting till the very last page to be touched by death. There are characters too- both good ones and bad ones, who you think you know so well, who change as the story progresses, and these too, in a way, are small deaths. There has always been that struggle between good and evil, light and dark, in JK’s stories, and this one is no less a collection of opposites – life and death, good and bad, love and hate, or simply love, and lack of love. Death is part of life, and it is the only constant, but so is darkness and so is evil. I have no idea who said it, but someone very wise once said that it is by the shadows that we see the sun. There will always be bad people in the world, but if we seek to see the good in people, we are more likely to see it because it is there. Everyone is good and bad, both at the same time, and it is the knowledge of that, and the rejection of one or the other that makes us who we are. And somehow, I think this is what the message is. For me, anyway.
Will JK write Another Book?
Well you know what, I don’t really know. I think she could, if she wanted too. But I don’t know if I would want to read them. That will probably sound very strange, I know, coming from a self confessed Harry Potter Fan. But the story has finished. The tale has been told. The journey has come full circle in every sense of the word, and if there is more, if there are more stories to tell, it feels somehow like I would be ear wigging to hear them, and there’s something not quite right about that. There were stories in the news this past week about how Potter Fans would be distraught, bereft, bereaved after finishing this last book - as much because there would be no more as because of what happens within the pages. But I didn’t feel that. I felt it BEFORE I read the book, that whole no-going-back-this – is-it kind of feeling you maybe get before falling into a bungee jump or something. But not afterwards. There were tears, I’ll not deny that, but there was this peaceful sense of completion, of acceptance, and of graceful acknowledgement – a sort of honourable nod to the characters and their journey and to the author who gave them life and let them live for a while. I say three cheers for JK Rowling, who has united so many people, all over the world, with the story of a boy wizard and his journey to fight dark forces.
My Opinion
Do you need it? My guess is that whatever I think doesn’t really matter, as you’ll have the book already and be itching to get reading it. My only advise is to read every page as it comes, to pay attention, and enjoy it. I did, and I can’t imagine anyone being anywhere close to disappointed by it’s pace, the way it keeps you on your toes, the way it has you guessing. If I had to pick my favourite book from all the Potter fare we’ve had over the years, this would be it, without question. It reminded me that there is always good to be seen in people, that we should only every second guess our own motivations for our own actions, and not everybody else’s’, and that finding truth and joy and peace in life, with all it’s glorious mystery, is a journey, not a destination.
If you do nothing else this year, read this book. Just make sure you’ve read all the others first or it won’t be quite the same…
Thank you for reading, Kate x
Final Instalment of Harry Potter finished at 21.30 hours, 22nd July 2007.
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Review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
Advantages: Everything! Disadvantages: You may just become addicted!
Harry Potter Deathly Hallows
The hype of the messy black haired boy masked with unfashionable rounded glasses and cursed with a lightning shaped scar has long since hit the hearts and minds of not only those young enough to love the fun adventures of the trio, but also the hearts and minds of us slightly older people who were once perhaps too embarrassed to admit we loved the adventures that JK. Rowling brought to the wondrous pages of her books. ... ...long awaited release date of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I know this date had been on countdown in my mind from the moment we were informed of it. It was also around the time that my sister was about to give birth and jokes that she would be reading this final book whilst in labour was well in the air (Luckily her little boy arrives well in time!). By this time I was already part way through my pregnancy and feeling too tired to go to any ...
elfbwillow 14.09.2007
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Advantages: A thumping final chapter in the greatest story of our time Disadvantages: Like the death of a close friend, there is no more
...a review of the final Harry Potter book. This is for two reasons. One, this is the first review I have written on Ciao for nearly a year and a half, meaning that most of the people who used to read my reviews have now either left Ciao or forgotten who the hell I am. Secondly, my first ever Ciao review back in 2002 was on the first Harry Potter book, The Philosophers Stone. Therefore writing this review feels a little like closing the door on that ... ...life in general, of which Harry Potter has been such a huge part for the last 6 years.
I don’t want to talk too much about anything that doesn’t directly relate to the book itself. This is the thing that annoys me the most about reviews. I know all you want to know is if the book is any good and how much it will cost to you. I will attempt to give you a clear picture of this in the following review.
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS
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Gryffindor 07.08.2007
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Advantages: The usual rip-roaring magical adventure Disadvantages: None - not even the fact that it is the end
...given half a chance. Harry Potter, ok, possibly, given a good enough reason. But Hermione Grainger? Not returning to complete the final year. Is this the end of civilisation as we know it? Not exactly. It is merely the end of a seven year odyssey through the life and times of Hogwarts and all associated with it. In this final episode Rowling has quite rightly acknowledged that the kids have grown up, if not quite old enough to vote or to drink, certainly ... ...or the twin-cored wands of Harry & Voldemort…and the whole book asks you time and again, who do YOU believe? Who would you trust? If the answers are ultimately as predictable as the elements of the whole series are derivative, I still don't care. I have loved all of the Potters and now that there will be no more; I have no doubt that I'll find time to read them over. Not because Rowling has produced a literary canon of great value. Frankly she hasn't. ...
hiker 11.09.2007
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Advantages: Excellent story, lots of plot twists, excellent characters, Disadvantages: Some characters die, its the end of the series
I have been a huge Harry Potter fan since I was about 11 years old. I have a huge Harry Potter collection and I have read all of the books, some of them a couple of times. I was really excited when I heard that the publication date for the final instalment was July 21st 2007. I ordered it from Amazon back in March and was very excited when it arrived last Saturday morning. As I work weekends and my nephew came to stay with me until Wednesday I only ... ...will know that Dumbledore left Harry with an important, challenging task to complete. Only Harry and his two best friends, Ron and Hermione, know what the task is and it must stay that way until the end. Ron and Hermione are willing to help Harry with the task, as they don’t want him to go on his own. I have really enjoyed watching the friendships between Harry, Ron and Hermione grow throughout the books and (although it comes as no surprise) it ...
bluejules 28.07.2007
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Advantages: Fantastically written, gripping, concludes brilliantly Disadvantages: Lots of deaths, it's the last book
...I have been a massive Harry Potter fan. I remember being introduced to the series when I was in my final year at primary school, my teacher had read the first few pages of the first book, Harry Potter and The Philosophers Stone. However, I have to admit that I wasn't that interested, I had assumed that it was a book written mainly for boys! The series hadn't really taken off until a few years later when pretty much everyone was reading them.
I was ... ...I came across the first Harry Potter book and decided that I would just give it a try as everyone was talking about it.
So I took it home and I was hooked, I simply couldn't stop reading it...it was so exciting and it was like nothing I had ever read before. After that, I purchased the 2nd and 3rd books and became a major fan!
Everyone knew that J.K Rowling had planned on only writing 7 Harry Potter books, one for every year of Harry's life at ...
Natanna 25.07.2007
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HarryPotter and the DeathlyHallows is the final installment of the world famous HarryPotter series, from rags-to-riches author J.KRowlings, who originally wrote the first books on napkins when she was a single mother, struggling to prosper economically.
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