They are all so young – Hermione gets TORTURED, Harry thinks he will die for everybody. And how about the tragedy of that entire generation of kids – the one with Harry’s father and mother – that died fighting Voldermort, or had their lives destroyed in different ways? I had never realised that Lily and James Potter, as well as their best friends, were TWENTY ONE AT THE TIME. Which is slightly fucked up because omg he was only 17. I had forgotten certain things: like that awful, heart-wrenching conversation between Lupin and Harry in which Harry tells Lupin off so beautifully – I think maybe that was the moment I realised that Harry was a grown man. When I first read this, I was SUCH a Snape fangirl and although I appreciate how courageous he was in being a double agent, I still think he was a horrible bully to the kids and to Harry in particular. Rowling for humanizing them to this point) and unlike my first read, I was not completely in love with the Snape twist – talk about a revelation. I finally realised how totally awesome Ginny Weasley is, how fantastic and reliable the adult teachers at Hogwarts are, and how much I loved the long stretch of Ron-Harry-Hermione on their own. Hence, it should be no surprise that on this re-read I realised how much stuff I missed, how many details went unremarked. I admit I didn’t properly read the book, it was more like gulping, inhaling, devouring. Hours later I was done, drowning in my own tears. I waited for the Amazon delivery by the door and when it arrived at around 8am, I took the book, I sat down and I only came up for air to leave snippets of reactions at Lost Forum because Thea and I were reading it together and we had TO SHARE our feels and we didn’t have a blog then OR even our email addresses for each other.
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My one and only read of this final Harry Potter novel was done on the very day it came out. I will proceed to vomit my feelings all over this post now, you’re welcome. This is my favourite Harry Potter book of all – it is tautly written, it is tense, it is tragic, and even with its imperfections, it is still the perfect ending to this series. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.**Īnd so the end is near, and now we face the final(ish) curtain. **All reviews/discussions on this re-readalong will contain inevitable spoilers–if you don’t want to be spoiled, best look away.
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Stand alone or series: Book 7 in the Harry Potter series But what will Harry do then? How can he fulfil the momentous and seemingly impossible task that Professor Dumbledore has left him? The Order of the Phoenix is coming to escort him safely away without Voldemort and his supporters knowing – if they can. Publisher: Bloomsbury (UK) / Scholastic (US) Genre: Middle Grade, Young Adult, Fantasy Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows This time, on our Old School Wednesday journey, we continue our OSW feature for the first half (ok, two-thirds) of 2016–The Epic Harry Potter Re-Read with our joint review of The Deathly Hallows. What better way to snap out of a reading fugue than to take a mini-vacation into the past? We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when both Ana and Thea were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and Shiny (and often over-hyped) books. Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smuggler feature.
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THIS MONTH ON THE RE-READ: we get to the last book and we say goodbye to the series and the re-read. Old School Wednesdays presents an epic reread of The Harry Potter series by J.K.