Monday, 23 July 2007

• THIS IS IT.

  
  

  
  

  
  I JUST FINISHED.
  god i'm such a slow reader.
  i can't believe i ponned school to read HP. haha just couldn't leave the story dangling like that.
  
  and i have to say I KNEW IT.
  don't worry, not going to give away spoilers, just that a lot of the stuff i expected to happen happened but with slight twists. think i'd have liked my way better though. haha
  
  i was reading quickly, wanting to see how it all ended, but i felt like it was so abrupt when it did. when i read the last line, i didn't want to close the book.
  
  it was the final sentence i would ever read of harry potter.
  
  i liked the way everything tied together (though i admit there were a few loose ends and it was albeit a little too similar to lotr for my liking). but hey i love the book anyway. i remember the first time i read the philosopher's stone, it was a christmas gift from my aunt who brought it all the way from england. i became HP obsessed for weeks - i really wanted to write a letter to hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry.
  
  i love the way you almost get sucked into the books when you're reading them. the vivid way with which everything's described, making you want to leave real life and go to hogwarts, learn transfiguration, potions and defence against the dark arts, have a feast at the great hall, wish that quidditch actually existed or that you could buy every-flavour-beans (not the fake kind they sell in real life) or weasleys' wizard wheezes.
  
  i like the way the book reflects reality in its undercurrents but manages to bring you into a world of magic and mystery. the way it drags you into the war with voldemort, making you want to be there to fight as well. the way it stresses that choices, not birth rights, are ultimately what matters. think it's the focus the book places on students, that such a world could exist right under our noses, that makes it magic.
  
  ah the great fantasy books.
  sigh, life really doesn't have any meaning now.
  
  

  cheers harry potter, for those god-knows-how-many-pages which were never quite enough
  

  
  

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