Posted by: justenjoyhim | August 23, 2007

I Don’t Just Want To READ Harry Potter

I want to BE Harry Potter.

Yep, I finally finished the final Harry Potter book a few days ago. I got a late start on it, finished it a few days ago, and I have to say that it’s everything that people said that it was.

So, I have to ask: Is it just me, or do the rest of you Harry Potter fans now want to get a wand and run around casting spells all over the place, yelling: STUPEFY! ACCIO [whatever it is you want to accio]!! DIFFINDO! EPISKEY! [boy, I could use that one now] REPARO! SCOURGIFY!

Yep. That’s what I want to do. It really is.


*Spoilers ahead.*

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I have to say, I wasn’t that upset about Snape’s untimely demise. Maybe it was the constantly greasy hair. I know, that makes me sound shallow, but . . . well, it really was distracting. I was, however, terribly distraught about Dobby’s death. I liked that Dobby. I think I really want a Dobby for myself, a nice little house elf who will do everything that he can to make my life easier. Oh, Dobby. :(

dobby
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That J.K. Rowling sure did have a lot of characters die though, for a “children’s book.” Yes, maybe I am a little bitter. My first and middle initials, pre-marriage (now I use first chosen name, maiden name, and married name) were also J.K. Why can’t I be the richest person in the U.K.? Yeah, even if I’m living here? Heck, I’d move there for that amount of money. I WOULD.

HAR-UMPH!!

Responses

My daughter (not even FIVE yet) has been known to say both “swish and FLICK” and “it’s lev-i-OH-sa. Not lev-i-o-SAH.” She’s going to be Hermione for Halloween and it will ROCK.

LOL I keep wanting to shout “Ten points from Gryffendore!” I don’t know how I’ll manage to keep from doing it once I am back in school. I want some of those spells too. “Accio car keys!”

Harry Potter is the greatest! My two year old loves running around screaming expelliarmus!

Well, I like to think maybe I really am Harry Potter–after all, we share the same birthday! Oddly enough it is also Juliet Capulet’s birthday–very strange that the 2 most famous people with my birthday are fictional!

I got sent to you by imtina, who I am lucky enough to live in the same town with. Since I adopted from China (my daughter is 3.5) and am also a librarian, she said I needed to see your blog! I don’t have a blog. We had an adoption one, but it is basically about our trip to China and then some stuff for grandparents and such. I like to read and talk about all sorts of adoption related and unrelated issues, but blogging isn’t really me, at least it hasn’t been so far.

Okay, so, the ending of book 7 bothered me. I was so mad at Rowling (even though she also shares our birthday) for killing off both Lupin and Tonks. It was as if she couldn’t bear to kill off anyone important, but felt she had to make some big gesture of killing someone off. So she made it all heartwrenching by making their poor baby an orphan. And then after all that, and with Harry as the godfather, we get nothing about how Harry interacted with this child as he grew up! Harry, who would have know how he felt to have lost both his parents! Okay, I know, it was just a cutesy little feelgood thing at the end and she couldn’t wrap up all the loose ends, but this was a biggie and I really thought there should have been something about how Harry fulfilled his role as godfather to this child. Almost certainly I’m extra sensitive on this since my daughter is nominally an orphan–and functionally kind of also, since it is pretty unlikely she will ever know anything about her first family. No one else I have talked to really had thought about this in book 7, though they agreed once I brought it up. But to me it was a real cheap shot tearjerker on J.K. Rowlings part and it left a bad taste for me.
Other than that, I really liked this book–it was maybe my second favorite–and I loved the series. Certainly not perfect, and she sure needed an editor for some of those middle books especially, but they were wonderful adventures and a good, safe way for kids (and obviously adults) to visit some dark places and then come back. And I think kids need that, some more than others.

Andrea

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