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Doug Chase _oug_hase — While I'm reading these books I have a number of running threads batting around in my head and I always plan to really write out a thorough examination of them. Then I finish and in either my excitement to move forward or the bittersweetness of it being over, I don't want to take the time. So here are my brief notes on this, my favorite of all seven, and the capstone in the work of literature I love best. Harry Potter is an intrinsically Christian series, not only because it time and time again celebrates the nobility of laying down your life for those you love, but more because throughout the series Harry's chief flaw is that he relies on his own understanding, rather than what he knows is right. From the first book, when he's tempted to give up the work of defending the Philosopher's Stone in favor of staying with the Mirror and seeing his dead loved ones, to the last where he's got to make the choice between chasing the Hallows or finding and destroying Horcruxes, Harry consistently is faced with what is right (what he knows he should be doing) and what is easy (what seems right because it's in line with his heart's desire). This is what gives his bildungsroman the verity and weight it has—especially since the things he wants to chase are almost always good things in and of themselves. His motives aren't wrong, he just knows that there is a bigger plan and so must set aside his immediate wants. That's tricky stuff to explore well for any novel, much less a YA fantasy series, and that it's done with so light a touch, in the midst of clockwork plots of the highest order, is a testament to Rowling's genius. Her writing in Deathly Hallows is not her most polished, but page for page it has the highest number of striking scenes and powerful character and plot moments. We know these characters so well, and to see them come this far is exhilarating and ultimately profoundly moving. Back in 2007 when I started this book, I assumed Rowling would spend basically the entire thing explaining and wrapping up. Instead, she spends about 85% piling on more mystery, more backstory, complications, numerous startling narrow escapes, and realizations of character, to then tie everything up so perfectly by the end it almost makes your head spin to read it. I don't have a lot more to say about it, except that this is my fifth read of the series, and every time I worry that it'll diminish in rereading. It's always the opposite. It gets richer, more meaningful, more impressive, and more dear to me every time. I think there can be a temptation when something is as universally beloved as Harry Potter is (few things have reached that peak, I know) to write it off as populist and easy. Popular, yes. Pedestrian, hardly. I feel as I'm sure many do, that the appreciation I have for these books is personal to the point of intimate, and while everyone in the world may love them, in the actual reading of them it's just the one reader, visiting this world, like through a Pensieve, vividly realized to the point of seeming real, only to find the end coming too soon.

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Brittany Geffert _rittany_effert — Oh, Pema. The trick to what she writes about is that it is so easy to understand intellectually, and so incredibly challenging to know emotionally, much less to actually pull off in the mess of day-to-day living. But that's the point, really: to keep trying. To let things be messy (and there's good messy and bad messy) and be in the messiness and know that the messiness isn't what we're supposed to escape from to our real lives, the messiness IS our real lives. Which we're constantly trying to run from. So, as usual, she's given me lots to think about in a few precious pages, and I know it's a book I'll be going back to. One of my favorite passages: "People have no respect for impermanence. We take no delight in it; in fact, we despair of it. We regard it as pain. We try to resist it by making things that will last--forever, we say--things that we don't have to wash, things that we don't have to iron. Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things." (Re-read this book - I think for the 3rd time? - five years after this first review. It just gets better, and this is the quote that I'm loving the best these days: “To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”)

Andrian Design andriandesignstudio — Wow, this book is way to hyped up! I hated it and if I hadn't been reading it for book club I probably wouldn't have finished it. Not only did I not like the story, I also was not impressed with the writing itself.