SPOILER ALERT! If you have not yet read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, (Book 7) I recommend you stop reading now!
I don’t think Ms. Rowling could have ended the Harry Potter series in a more perfect way. After a day full of betrayal, chases, narrow escapes, goblins, giants, deaths, life and awesome Weasley-twin wisecracks, I am ready to sleep. I am so happy that Harry, Hermione and Ron all live! I am elated that one of the women I hate most in the world (although fictional), Bellatrix Lestrange was hosed… and it couldn’t have been done by anyone more deserving (except Neville). I’m so glad that Harry was given a way out of dying (more than once) and was able to defeat his all-time arch nemesis, Voldemort. And, not only was he able to eliminate his existence, but he was able to teach him a lesson on being a man before doing so.
I am not going to lie to you, this book had me absolutely engrossed. I didn’t realize I was so attached to some of these characters until they jerked the tears right from my eyes. I had to stop reading for a few minutes after finding Dobby dead. To be honest, he was never a favorite character of mine. As ‘The Other Nate’ put it, he is the Jar Jar Binks of the Harry Potter series. Yet he represents something that Jar Jar lacks, a complete devotion and love for someone who treated him differently than everyone else. It’s one thing to know that someone will give their life to save you. It’s completely another to witness the act.
The only other portion of the book that made me misty was nearing the end, at the arrival of the hosts of wonderful wizards who arrived at the ‘Room of Acquirement’. It always made me happy to see people force their aide on Harry when he felt that he should be doing things alone, without burdening his load on anyone else. It just goes to show that one of the best ways to judge your quality as a person is to take a look a the quality of people who chose to surround themselves around you. It never mattered how down on himself Harry got, or how discourage or self-pitying, he always had people who knew and loved the good in him to push him onward, even if it required themselves to take a loss.
Overall, the book was fantastic, and although I am slightly disappointed that I will never have the chance to count down the days until the ‘next Harry Potter book’ is released, I will enjoy very much, forcing my children to read these masterpieces, and being able to discuss all the beauty they contain. Fred, Dobby, Lupin, Tonks, Mad-Eye …. may you rest in peace.
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