Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, Bk 7)
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Genre: Children's Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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Genre: Children's Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Hogwarts headmistress J.K. Rowling rounds out the brilliant series with a heart-wrenching, mind-boggling finale that both closes gaping doors and blasts open new ones. The highly-anticipated novel that flew off shelves upon its late July 2007 release gives light to the treacherous, secret-telling pasts of some of the series' central characters and brings a pattern of unexpected deaths that all formulate the halcyon, if not surprising, conclusion.
Though some developments in Hallows that required careful attention in the previous novels may occasionally force the reader to go back a chapter (or book) or two, Potter fanatics will find such details creating funny and relaxing situations, such as Hermoine Granger's efforts to free house-elves or gamekeeper Rubeus Hagrid's housing of the giant Grawp. This has been the only book with which I've had the utmost urge to cry over one page and die from laughter over the very next.
Compared with Hallows' twists, turns and way-too-close-for-comfort encounters, Potter's preceding adventures look like he was caring for Flobberworms. The never-ending chase by He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named's Death Eaters is relentless and nail-biting, and sudden character unions and separations only add to the suspense.
Rowling has taken the world of Harry Potter to its fullest potential with Hallows, telling concisely of both sides of a war of good against evil. Only until the very last page was read in completion was I convinced of who was truly victorious in this battle. But even when every last word encased within the book's hard shell had been seen and understood by my own eyes, it still made me question a lot of things about the world that Rowling had created, things meant to have no answer. And even the questioning of truly real things may arise, for Rowling's perspective of blood-spilling, though purposive, conflict is quite accurate in our current times. With each person, however, the question remains whether our 'wand' is truly our own...
Though some developments in Hallows that required careful attention in the previous novels may occasionally force the reader to go back a chapter (or book) or two, Potter fanatics will find such details creating funny and relaxing situations, such as Hermoine Granger's efforts to free house-elves or gamekeeper Rubeus Hagrid's housing of the giant Grawp. This has been the only book with which I've had the utmost urge to cry over one page and die from laughter over the very next.
Compared with Hallows' twists, turns and way-too-close-for-comfort encounters, Potter's preceding adventures look like he was caring for Flobberworms. The never-ending chase by He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named's Death Eaters is relentless and nail-biting, and sudden character unions and separations only add to the suspense.
Rowling has taken the world of Harry Potter to its fullest potential with Hallows, telling concisely of both sides of a war of good against evil. Only until the very last page was read in completion was I convinced of who was truly victorious in this battle. But even when every last word encased within the book's hard shell had been seen and understood by my own eyes, it still made me question a lot of things about the world that Rowling had created, things meant to have no answer. And even the questioning of truly real things may arise, for Rowling's perspective of blood-spilling, though purposive, conflict is quite accurate in our current times. With each person, however, the question remains whether our 'wand' is truly our own...
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