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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

I finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Tuesday morning.  Wow.  The book lives up to all the excitement and anticipation.   It is an excellent story.

Harry is on a Heroic Quest to destroy some objects of Dark Magic before Voldemort can recover them.

There are glimpses of Arthurian legend and archetypal symbols.  There are great battles and great sacrifices.  And some characters do die, more than 2, in fact.

The Potter series can stand with the classics.  Good job, Ms. Rowling.

8 comments • Cheryl Johnson • July 26 2007 06:27AM

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Quick reading huh CJ!  It's on my list to go buy soon, once I think I can set aside enough time to get through it!
Posted by Ravi Shah (Prudential Fox & Roach, REALTORS® - Team Thornton ) over 3 years ago
My 12 year old daughter finished it today too - she is dying to tell me all the details but I won't let her.  She said it was the best book she'd ever read and she reads several books a week!!!
Posted by Kate Bourland Empowering America to Live Debt Free (Financial Solutions Inc.) over 3 years ago
Cheryl, I'm about 550 pages in, and have been staying up late each night this week to get some reading done.  Great book so far.  My wife who hasn't read any of the books, but has seen the first 4 movies (we'll see the 5th soon) keeps asking me to fill her in and give her an update.  I tell her that it's a bit hard to summarize two and a half books and that I wouldn't want to ruin the movies for her since she doesn't plan on reading the books.
Posted by Brian Block -- Northern Virginia & D.C. Real Estate (RE/MAX Allegiance, Managing Broker/Branch Vice President) over 3 years ago

I hope to get to Costco today.

Arthurian Glimpses? Is she setting up another series do you think?

Posted by Jim Little, Your Sun City Arizona Realtor (Ken Meade Realty) over 3 years ago

By the time I got to the end, I could see several different angles and characters she could use to develop a new series.  But the Arthurian glimpse -- without giving away too much here, I hope -- involves the Sword of Gryffindor.

Rowling evidently promised an upcoming encyclopedia of all things Potter in one interview:  http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1565517/story.jhtml

Posted by Cheryl Johnson, Bob Taylor Properties, Inc., Los Angeles, CA over 3 years ago
An Encyclopedia would be great. Every time she brought out a new book, I would than read it trying to remember things she referred to. This time I re-read them first, so I hope I can do better when reading Deathly Hallows
Posted by Jim Little, Your Sun City Arizona Realtor (Ken Meade Realty) over 3 years ago
So, is it o.k. the last book has been published or do wish there were more coming?
Posted by Carol Williams Wenatchee Real Estate (Willinger Real Estate) over 3 years ago
As you can tell I'm surfing through your blog this morning.  I stayed up unti 1:00 one morning this week finshing Deathly Hallows.  My daughter had already told me that she liked the way Rowlings tied everything together so I was good and didn't read forward.  I'm really bad about doing that.  Once I'm through reading the series that I'm reading now I'm going to re-read all the books.  It takes a pretty exceptional series for me to re-read a book but this is one of those series!
Posted by Marchel Peterson Spring TX Real Estate E-Pro (Results Realty) over 2 years ago

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