Ok I admit it I AM A GEEK, at least when it comes to stuff like scifi or reading, especially the Harry Potter books. I usually just stick my nose in them and read them till my eyes just want to pop out of my head or I finish, whichever comes first. Sunday during my lunch I finally went out and bought the Deathly Hallows the last book in the series. I wanted to go out and buy it right away when it came out, but for some reason a little voice said "no wait, it will still be there." So I waited until Sunday. I read for a few hours that night, another 3 or so before work yesterday, another 5 hours last night and finally finished it today with a little less than 2 hours of reading. After finishing it I was satisfied yet sad that there would be no more adventures to read about involving them, and looked for the litterary lessons held within. I believe that all good stories have more to the story than just what is written on the pages, there is so much more between the lines of a good work, many things that you can learn about yourself.
Rowlings books to me have held many simularities to WWII Europe and the struggle of good vs evil and the whole race of superiority. The death eaters are Voldermort's SS of sorts, instead of a swatstika they have the dark mark, and of course both leaders of evil are mad. She also though seemed to touch a little in the last two books on the whole climate in the US after 9/11. How society was frightened by horrible actions and all the government seemed to do is offer silly new laws that were to protect us, by taking away some of our freedoms. Don't get me wrong, I love our country and I believe full heartedly that we had no choice but to chase down the Taliban in Afganistan after those events. I support our troops, I have several relatives serving over there right now. I just never understood the whole Iraq thing. They had nothing to do with 9/11 yet they used the fevor caused by it to justify going in. And now I hate to say we can't just leave, we've got a big mess to clean up, one we created. Anyway way off tangent there, but I don't want to be seen as just being anti-Bush, anti-US, anti-war. War is unfortunately a necessary thing sometimes to fight off evil, it just gets hard sometimes figuring out which side is good and which side is evil. I think the whole feel of the last two books is kind of like what we are feeling in the western world today. So much pain and fear abound for our troops, and our own saftey as monsters are now targeting civilans. I only wish there were some of the good magic in the books around in our world, it might be a better place.
I found it funny after talking to Co that I finished the book on Harry's birthday, see maybe that little voice belonged to Professor Trelawney, figuring if I bought it on the 29th I'd finish on the 31st.(see I told you I was a geek) Whatever the reason it was a good journey and a coincidental ending of my reading enjoyment.
Spoiler Alert-
Rowlings books to me have held many simularities to WWII Europe and the struggle of good vs evil and the whole race of superiority. The death eaters are Voldermort's SS of sorts, instead of a swatstika they have the dark mark, and of course both leaders of evil are mad. She also though seemed to touch a little in the last two books on the whole climate in the US after 9/11. How society was frightened by horrible actions and all the government seemed to do is offer silly new laws that were to protect us, by taking away some of our freedoms. Don't get me wrong, I love our country and I believe full heartedly that we had no choice but to chase down the Taliban in Afganistan after those events. I support our troops, I have several relatives serving over there right now. I just never understood the whole Iraq thing. They had nothing to do with 9/11 yet they used the fevor caused by it to justify going in. And now I hate to say we can't just leave, we've got a big mess to clean up, one we created. Anyway way off tangent there, but I don't want to be seen as just being anti-Bush, anti-US, anti-war. War is unfortunately a necessary thing sometimes to fight off evil, it just gets hard sometimes figuring out which side is good and which side is evil. I think the whole feel of the last two books is kind of like what we are feeling in the western world today. So much pain and fear abound for our troops, and our own saftey as monsters are now targeting civilans. I only wish there were some of the good magic in the books around in our world, it might be a better place.
I found it funny after talking to Co that I finished the book on Harry's birthday, see maybe that little voice belonged to Professor Trelawney, figuring if I bought it on the 29th I'd finish on the 31st.(see I told you I was a geek) Whatever the reason it was a good journey and a coincidental ending of my reading enjoyment.
Spoiler Alert-
Beware to those who the ending don't want to know,
of the words that lie below.
Ok I just had to put some of the details about what happens in the book are you ready.
Harry turns 17, him and his best buds head out on a journey to complete the job given to him by Dumbeldore, bad guys die, good guys die, death everywhere, questions are answered and of course a final showdown the end.
You really thought I was going to take all the enjoyment out of it. Read it yourself you lazy muggle.
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J K Rowlings talked about the WW II connections on Dateline last Sunday and she admitted that there was a connection, when she was asked about the current war she smiled and she rather not discuss that.
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