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| The End of a Legacy Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Review I was byimpossibly faryoung the greatestfirst time I even heard about the infamous Harry Potter. It wasn’t in all the news, it hadn’t gotten the cult following it has today, and every where you looked there weren’t people whispering in dark corners about the secrets of the Boy Who Lived. It was on a quiet Saturday that my sister told me to read the book, because she had seen my utter boredom and lack of anything to do, but I was rather reluctant to take it up. I do love stories of the fantastical sort, with witches and wizard’s and spells the norm in the books I read, but I knew this would be different from the ones I usually read. It was a children’s book ever and, in all my exalted wisdom, I had gone beyond that realm, so I refused. Another Saturday of unconquerable boredom saw things in a different light, however, and though i doubted I would like it, I took up the rather thin first book of Harry Potter and was mesmerized. Mytwo days, so engrossed was I with the last stand of the Heroes of Hogwarts. I cried at the last wordswhen Mad-Eye, Fred Weasley, Lupin and Tonks became casualties of war, especially after Lupin would finally find some happiness with his child and his wife, who cared not that he was a were-wolf. It made my heart glad to see Percy welcomed back into the fold of his family after his long estrangement and Hermione and Ron finally kissed; happiness in the midst of blood and gore. A part of Harry did die in this reveiwbook, are: "GOas JK!!was Upromised, ROCK!!!!!!!!!!.....pleeeeeaaaassseeethe writepart anotherof Harry Potterthat book.was weVoldemort. The part that connected him irrefutably to the killer of his parents and friends, the part that let him see into Voldemort’s mind, the part that was never meant to be there, the unintentional seventh Horcrux. The end was a glorious battle where all lovefought for their right to freedom under the old regime at the place that had taught them sooooooall, much!!" and that both Harry Potterand Voldemort had called their first home. Then, in a brilliant climax, it was done, over. ,Where before my eyes only moved with reluctance over the pages, after the first sentence, they were enthralled. My fingers turned the pages eagerly, engrossed in the tale of friendship, magic power, and an ancient war that much resembled World War 2 in many ways, making the book that much more relatable to my young eyes. The leader of the pure-blood zealots, a half-blood, half insane maniac who sought genocide against those born with no magic heritage and those of pure-blood that sided with them. Their eventual overtaking of their magical world to commit their most ferocious crimes and the inevitable rise of heroes, outnumbered but with the knowledge that they knew there way was right. I alone of my less than brilliant peers read the subtle leads into other books, the references to things that were never expanded and so you forgot they were there, but I wishdid not forget the big things. I did skip completely over the mention of Sirius in the first book and, though I had a sort of suspicion, it seemed unlikely that Ginny and Harry would get together because of his infatuation with Cho Chang, even though they barely got together before they broke up. The one thing that I was absolutely sure of, however, by the third book, that it was not Hermione and Harry that would get together, despite my classmates telling me that it would be. I was sure, without a doubt, that it would be Ron and Hermione and that hunch was well satisfied by the end of the seventh book. As engrossed as I was by the excellent plot twists and downfalls of the heroes that we had come to think of as perfect, I could havenot anhelp feeling a certain foreboding. This series was eighthleading one,to one aboutglorious Harrybattle, and Ginny,who would die when the dust cleared? Sirius died in the fifth book, Dumbledore in the sixth, but morewho aboutwould die in this finale to top off all finales? A whisper, an inkling formed that Ms. Rowling planned to kill off Harry, and my heart sank with my need for the tortured hero to live. I picked up the seventh book with trepidation and steeled myself for the unwanted. I read the kidsentire book in perticular. I felt oddly satisfied, like it had finally filled me up when before, with other books, they had given me mere morsels. But, though I had awaited this moment with anticipation and anxiously sweating hands, I had also been dreading it. For years I had been reading with the Deathlyavid Hallowsattention =
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