Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows July 22, 2007
We got our copy of the seventh Harry Potter book Saturday afternoon and I read well into the night and morning (of Sunday), too, by the way.
I finally finished it this morning, despite my 4-year-old son’s admonitions for me to “stop studying (which he equates with reading)”, and overall I think it is a fitting end to JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series.
The controversial spoilers that came out a day or two before the book’s simultaneous release, which I read by the way (I guess I’m not that of a fanatic), have it all wrong. The photo of the book cover and the titles of the chapters were correct but they couldn’t have been more wrong about the gist of the story.
I tried my hardest NOT to look at the spoilers that came out days before the book was released but sneaked a peek nonetheless and saw that Ron was going to die. Well, that didn;t happen. I wish though that JK Rowling stopped at the last chapter and did not add the epilogue.
The epilogue did seem anticlimactic. Maybe it’s JK Rowling’s way of saying to the die-hard Potter fans that there’s not going to be another book on this series.