This Is How The Deathly Hallows Ends?!!

My eyes were closing and my brain was shutting down. But I knew I had to stay awake. I sat up then flipped over to my tummy and then continued in child’s pose. The battle scenes were exciting and so was the twist in the story. I liked how Dumbledore’s Army and the Order of the Phoenix stood together to fight. They were helped by so many of the other magical creatures, live and inanimate objects joined for a fight to defeat the evil Voldermort! And the question on everyone’s minds since Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone - whether Dumbledore was indeed right to trust Snape or not.

My eyes moved faster and faster as I sped to finish the book. The battle scene finally ended. JK Rowling is merciless. Just within the first few chapters, half a dozen characters are killed off. By the last few chapters, I’ve lost count of the wounded and the dead. Sad as it was with a few of my favourite characters killed, I still say it was a good story.

As I reached the last few chapters, I slowed down to savour what would be the last of the amazing Harry Potter series. It has been a wonderful journey spanning 10 years of reading and following the life and coming of age of the ‘Boy Who Lived’. The younger readers would have grown up along with Harry and would have resonated even more strongly with him.

Then came the final chapter. And then the last page.

I’m outraged! I can’t believe it ended this way! In just a few pages, JK Rowling negated all the fantasy which she’s conjured in people’s minds so amazingly well in all 7 books.

I can’t help but get a feel that she’s doing it for herself. She did it to safe guard her character. While I can understand why she would want to do it, I felt it was unfair for the readers. The millions of kids and adults out there! Those last pages took away all the magic which was becoming part of our everyday lives and more so when a new book is released every year or two. It was even corny.

I’m utterly disappointed and want to yell ‘IMPERIO’ at JK Rowling and I want to cast ‘OBLIVATE’ on my mind but I didn’t even have it in me to cast a Patronus. I cast my wand aside along with the book and hid under the duvet. And I realized with full conviction that I’m now a Muggle.

3 More Days Till The Deathly Hallows

3 days till the release of the seventh and final of the Harry Potter book series – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It will be available worldwide on Saturday, 21^st July.

The stores in Malaysia will open their doors at 7.01am that Saturday for book collection (for those who pre booked like me) and for purchases.

The whole world is waiting and is in a frenzy.

Households are putting manners of news channels on hold such as TV, radio, the net, telephones …… so that they can read the book themselves without anyone spoiling it for them.

I can’t wait! I’m going to pick up my copy early and read at top speed but will probably slow down towards the end as this is the final book. I can’t image a world where there is no more Harry Potter to look forward to in the coming years. Sounds a little fanatical, but I’m not alone.

JK Rowling cried when she wrote this book. Is it because she killed off a character? Or because this is the last book?

She did said that she’ll be killing off a character in this book. And seeing how she so mercilessly killed Sirius and Dumbledore in the last 2 books, it could very well be Harry that’s next. This is especially since the prophecy in Order of the Phoenix says that ‘One will not live while the other survives’, referring to Harry and Voldermort. Meaning either of them is going to perish. Will it be Harry?! I hope not. There are petitions going round for Joanne not to kill Harry. But has it helped?

While a prophecy is supposed to hold true, hopefully (crossing fingers), it won’t come to pass. After all, Voldermost entered Harry’s house when he was a baby to kill the entire family. Harry was still an infant then. His parents met their death in Voldermort hands but Harry managed to survive.

So maybe not all prophecies will come true. Harry’s mother’s love protected him and Voldermost’s attack merely left him with a scar on his forehead. Will Harry be able to survive again?

There’s so much speculation out that. But my take is that Harry will defeat Voldermost and survive and will graduate and become an excellent Auror.

3 more days to go! No one disturb me on Saturday please!