Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Some Opinions

AmCan Mom wrote on Jul 23, 2007 11:18 PM:

I pre-ordered the book from Amazon.com and when it came my husband said: "Everyone say good-bye to Mommy! We will see her when she is done reading her new book." Excellent finale!!! "

I L H P wrote on Jul 23, 2007 9:20 PM:

" hi, i have not read the entire book yet bt still i am like addicted just like the others just let me tell u this harry starts out in his bedroom and his 17 b-day is in a couple of days. and dudly is still chubby as ever "

tony wrote on Jul 23, 2007 6:31 PM:

"i was the first to get the book saturday morning at the library and finished it by sunday afternoon. it was amazing! to think that it all started ten years ago. i too was crying at the close of the book, knowing it was over. no matter what anyone says, the book is great,including the epilouge. thank you j.k. rowling for enriching my life with these books."

Grape Crush wrote on Jul 23, 2007 4:10 PM:

"It was a riveting read, and a very satisfying conclusion to the series. Yes, I would have liked an expanded epilogue, to find out more of what happened to the main and other characters, but there's one strong feeling that I came away with overall: It's done. Another book, or a spin-off series, seems pointless. The Harry Potter story just feels complete."

randall wrote on Jul 23, 2007 9:30 AM:

"i think that harry potter books had introduce us to the world of magic and mystical images . to me i have found the book to be very educational by the means of good and evil , the books had tought me that friendship is only speaking to soneone but by beliving and standing with no matter how different and hard the times are . like that harry friends stood by him and the bonds they made witheach other . i think that their friendship should teach us something very important ......and the books could be user as literature ?.... i could read any thing that jk rowling write.... "

Harry Potter n0.1 fan!!! wrote on Jul 23, 2007 9:20 AM:

"it was very amazing!!!!!!!! if she doesnt continue with harry potter she might continue with one of his children!!!!! im very glad on how the book turned out!!!!!!!!! when i got the book i couldnt put it down and when i reached the ending i was so happy!!!!!! it is the best book in the series!!!!!!!!!!!!! i simply loved it!!!!! "

Deb wrote on Jul 23, 2007 8:50 AM:

"AS an adult reading the final book - I couldn't put it down. I found it a fantastic conclusion to the series and it had me crying well before the final chapters - JK Rowlings has addressed the finale as I would have hoped - with explanation and excitment, amazing read - i found the end result well worthy of the 600 odd pages I'd read to get there - my favourite character SNAPE kept me guessing to the end - Marvellous stuff - the only disappointment is it is over."

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Waiting over for Harry Potter fans

The wait was finally over this morning as thousands of Harry Potter fans got their hands on copies of the seventh and final book.

Thousands of people queued at book shops and supermarkets around the country, waiting for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to go on sale at midnight.

More than 1,000 fans lined the streets around Waterstones’ flagship store in central London and another 1,000 waited at Asda’s superstore in Pudsey, near Leeds.

Many will have already started reading the book this morning but one of the first to finish it was speed reader Anne Jones, who read more than 199,900 words, on 607 pages, in 47 minutes and one second.

Spoiler Warning

Fans from India confirmed that Harry is not dead at the end.

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J.K. Rowling - Life without Harry

She is feted across the globe for her magic-filled books but now the final Harry Potter has hit the shelves, what on earth will J. K. Rowling do with herself?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, on finishing the last page of his historical novel, The White Company in 1890, cried "That's torn it!" and flung his steel-tipped pen across the study so it twanged in the wood panelling. Edward Gibbon, on finishing Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in 1787, after 15 years' work, went for a reflective stroll in his arboretum and recorded "a profound combination of exhilaration and melancholy".

When J.K. Rowling completed the last page of her seven-volume, multi-movie-spawning, billion-spinning, Harry Potter super-saga this year, she, too, felt the moment deserved a memorial. She was staying at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh and recorded the moment by writing in marker pen, on a marble bust, the words: "J. K. Rowling finished writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in this room (652) on 11 January 2007."

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Book Leaks

By Rick Aristotle Munarriz

We're still a few hours away from the release of the final book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, and Scholastic (Nasdaq: SCHL) is already putting out fires. The stateside publisher has been chasing down online retailers who shipped the book too soon, as well as reviewers with early critiques and cyber-spoilers who have put pages from the book online.

It probably doesn't help that Rowling, who hasn't had a problem offing key characters in recent installments, has made no bones about the need to kill a few more in the final book.

Does Harry die? Will his buddy Ron Weasley meet his literary demise? Is Hermione Granger no stranger to the grim reaper?

I don't know. And even if I did, I wouldn't tell you. Secrets were a lot easier to keep when everyone didn't have one-click access to the rest of the world through blogs, online discussion boards, and personal websites.

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Related Links:

• J. K. Rowling's Official website
  

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at wikipedia