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Author:J.K. Rowling Album:Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Record Company:Scholastic Children's Books Writer: The Vish Click Album Cover To Buy Now

After years and years of waiting, the time has finally come to read the seventh and final installment of J.K. Rowling’s epic series of Harry Potter books with the release of “The Deathly Hallows”. I cannot tell you how excited I was to get this book, being an avid Harry Potter fan. I own all of the books (read them all three times), audio books and movies on top of reading all of the books and watching all of the movies with my son. The special thing about the Harry Potter series is that the books have been being written for fifteen years, which means that almost a whole generation of people my age and younger have been waiting for this seventh book. It does not stop there, though. Parents have been reading these books to their children since the early 90’s, and being as J.K. Rowling is such a great writer, anybody who reads the Harry Potter books immediately gets sucked in to a world of magic and wonder. So not only do you have people my age (25) and younger wanting to read the last Harry Potter books, you have parents of all ages wanting finality on the series. Do the math and you have a worldwide phenomenon of mythic proportions… Something tells me that the Harry Potter series, some day in time, will be the only canon of books that will come any where close to rivaling the bible (and I hope it does, they are better books).

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” starts off, obviously, where “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” left off, with the wizarding world reeling after Severus Snape murdered Dumbledore and Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley forgoing their seventh year at Hogwarts and preparing to find and destroy the horcruxes (no, I’m not going to explain what a horcrux does) that Lord Voldemort made in an attempt to conquer death. Throughout the book Harry and his friends are on the run because Voldemort and his supporters have taken over the Ministry Of Magic and because of that, they have the wizarding government and Voldemort’s supporters trying to find Harry. Throughout spectacular escapes, captures, fights and the like, J.K. Rowling weaves details (big and small) from all of the previous books together with ease and stirs them all together until they come to a grand head.

The first half of the book was rather boring, but necessary. Somewhere between chapters 15 and 20, things heated up. After that life wasn’t going to be worth living unless I was reading this book. So many things got thrown at me at once that I was like “WHOA!” A massive war takes place between Harry’s supporters and Voldemort’s supports at Hogwarts that is absolutely awesome! Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks and Fred Weasley all die. Voldemort kills Snape and while he is dying, he gives Harry some memories in a bottle that Harry must view from Dumbledore’s pensive. Harry discovers that Snape had killed Dumbledore on Dumbledore’s orders because he was dying anyways and also that Snape had vowed to protect Harry because he was in love with Lily (Harry’s mother) ever since he was a kid and was heartbroken when Voldemort had murdered her. The ultimate redemption for my most favorite character in the series! That’s a lot to take in!

All of the Horcruxes, save one, are destroyed (Harry finds out that he is the last and that he was destined to die from the start) during the battle at Hogwarts. To stop anybody else from getting killed and finally understanding the prophecy (neither can live while the other survives) Harry willingly gets murdered by Voldemort, except for that he doesn’t get killed because of ancient magic that has to do with love and sacrifice and blah, blah, blah. Harry finally defeats Voldemort and that should be the end of one of the best stories every told.

I was disappointed with only one thing. The epilogue is sappy and lame as fuck. Nineteen years in the future and all is well. Harry and Ginny Weasley get married and have kids. Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger get married and have kids. Both families are seeing their children off to platform 9 ¾ to go to Hogwarts. Yawn. I wish I’d skipped reading the epilogue, because it just wasn’t what I wanted to read... I’m not a fan of sappy shit. Other than that, I am fully satisfied yet kinda bummed because this is the last Potter book. A great ending to a great story.

Author:J.K. Rowling Album:Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Record Company:Scholastic Children's Books Writer: The Vish Click Album Cover To Buy Now

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