Alas, I have finally made it through my harry potter adventure! I must say I feel much more British now. Nope, only joking.
I remember like it was yesterday, waiting in line at Chapters for the final novel of Harry Potter, rushing home to read it and then discuss it in a mini book club at work on Monday.
For the last installment, not bad. We certainly do see those harryisms shining through right til the last novel. Hermione doesn't disappoint and successfully manages to get the three of them out of countless near death experiences. Harry is broody as always, especially when he wears the Horcrux and remembers all the things that make him the chosen one (oh my god. this is so unfair. ol dumbly left me with nothing. NOTHING. i hate my life, i must not tell lies, arghgha everything makes me feel angsty. I dont even like stewed mushrooms, i also dont like this new blackthorn wand it doesnt work properly...aaahh hollllly and phoenix featherrrrrr).
In the 7th book, JK provides us with one of the best chapters she has ever written in her life: The Prince's Tale. Since Severus Snape is obviously the best character in all of Harry Potter to get his story is a treat like none other. Everything makes sense after you read this chapter and then your love of snape grows 10 fold.
While I understand why she wrote the 19 years later chapter, it was still pretty sucky. It seemed very 'lets tie it all together in a neat and tidy way'. I mean obviously Hermione and Ron were going to be together, but I was personally never a big fan of ginny and harry together. But I suppose that the harry-ginny ron-hermione route was an easy one for her to take and it made sense and she didn't want to write any other HP novels so it was a necessary evil.
In terms of the movies, when it was first announced that they planned on dividing up the 7th novel into 2 parts I must admit I was quite excited. I believed that finally they would be able to not skip out on any of the details and that they would be just like the books. Well I was 50% right. The first movie I have very few complaints. My only issue would probably be the part with Kreacher at Grimauld place. They didn't really play up his importance in the movie and his connection to Regulus and the locket. Also I found the elves and goblins to look far too human like. In the earlier volumes they looked very goblin and elfish but in the final 2 movies their features were surprisingly human-like. Other than that the movie was virtually by the book.
The 7th installment part 2, oh man, huge disaster. Considering they had very little to still cover you would think it wouldn't be hard for them to stick to the book. So much was different unnecessarily. At the end when Harry kills Voldy they are by themselves amongst ruins outside of the castle. This is only one example, but they barely make this battle out to be the epicness that it actually was. Whatever, it was a horrible end to a movie series that could have been epic as fuck.
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