All is true.
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starladyThe sun has risen over New Jersey and I finished the seventh and final volume, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, about ten minutes ago. I disagree with Michiko Kakutani about "clunky chunks of exposition," I thought this book slithered along with a fleetness and an inevitability probably not matched since Goblet of Fire, which is now dueling in my heart for the position of "my favorite of the lot" with this final entry of the saga.
Without revealing too much, I will say that all the little odd details that seemed telling and memorable throughout the first six volumes came home to roost in this seventh, although a disproportionate number seemed to be from Sorcerer's Stone, which seems only fitting. At several points I was laughing outloud at how bits of memorable verbiage from that first book were made real in this last. In the beginning was the word, indeed. I am pleased with the high number of guesses and wagers I had made with myself that turned out to be true, although on at least one I was completely wrong. And on at least one important question, everyone was right, and everyone was wrong.
I don't think I've ever read a book that has made me sob like this one did. Just--sob. I have wept at books, yes, but I have never sobbed like I did for this one: Sob at the thought of these characters' fates and of how they met them, and also because it is over and I have loved every minute of being a Harry Potter fan since I first bought that first book nine years ago because from the first words it was impossible not to love these characters, even the most broken and damaged among them. But then, the ones who love us never leave us, and nor do the ones we love. All is well.
P.S. After years of JKR saying she would never write about the Potterverse again, recently she's changed her tune and said, "Well, maybe," and in my opinion the pessimistic could take the end of this volume as leaving the door so wide open Hagrid could walk through it without bending. We'll see. I'm not sure what I think. Maybe I think what I thought after finishing Sorcerer's Stone: "Good ending. She could totally write another if she wanted to."
Without revealing too much, I will say that all the little odd details that seemed telling and memorable throughout the first six volumes came home to roost in this seventh, although a disproportionate number seemed to be from Sorcerer's Stone, which seems only fitting. At several points I was laughing outloud at how bits of memorable verbiage from that first book were made real in this last. In the beginning was the word, indeed. I am pleased with the high number of guesses and wagers I had made with myself that turned out to be true, although on at least one I was completely wrong. And on at least one important question, everyone was right, and everyone was wrong.
I don't think I've ever read a book that has made me sob like this one did. Just--sob. I have wept at books, yes, but I have never sobbed like I did for this one: Sob at the thought of these characters' fates and of how they met them, and also because it is over and I have loved every minute of being a Harry Potter fan since I first bought that first book nine years ago because from the first words it was impossible not to love these characters, even the most broken and damaged among them. But then, the ones who love us never leave us, and nor do the ones we love. All is well.
P.S. After years of JKR saying she would never write about the Potterverse again, recently she's changed her tune and said, "Well, maybe," and in my opinion the pessimistic could take the end of this volume as leaving the door so wide open Hagrid could walk through it without bending. We'll see. I'm not sure what I think. Maybe I think what I thought after finishing Sorcerer's Stone: "Good ending. She could totally write another if she wanted to."
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Date: 2007-07-21 20:57 (UTC)We'll call you shortly. :) We got your package and letters :) :)!
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Date: 2007-07-26 23:22 (UTC)This one was good. really good. I was quite pleased that it answered all of the hanging questionmarks and still managed to move around in a decent fasion. I hate to say it but i think this one might actually make a good movie if they screen it right.
otherwise i cant beleive its over, 10 years we've been folowing this saga (ok 9 unless you got an original copy from the uk but still long enough)!
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Date: 2007-07-27 01:44 (UTC)yeah, i think now 1, 4 and 7 are my favorites...but as good as 1 is, it's so much of an introduction, i think my real favorites are 4 and 7.
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Date: 2007-07-27 11:01 (UTC)as for favorite books, I really liked book 3 and i enjoyed the ending to 5. 5 is my least favorite but a moveable swamp just amused me too much.
so its 3 and 7 for me.
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Date: 2007-08-01 03:37 (UTC)i am going to be at the girl scout thing, i think, so see you then, hopefully. ^_^
p.s. great icon.
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Date: 2007-08-01 09:48 (UTC)anyway, i will call you later when i'm more awake and less grouchy
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Date: 2007-08-01 18:20 (UTC)i was thinking for the movie, we should go to the first show on saturday morning at loews, because the first show of the day is $5.
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Date: 2007-08-01 22:25 (UTC)as for the girl scout thing you didn't miss much, though i will call you and fill you in later.
for the movies if its not to un kosher we could always go sunday. otherwise my next day off is wed :(
this week=sucky
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Date: 2007-08-02 16:58 (UTC)yeah, my noise was just running, and I didn't want to drive an hour and back to saccie to be eaten alive by mosquitoes.