Mourning Harry
Jamieson Villeneuve
July 24, 2007
As I approach the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, I am reminded of a quote from another novel.
Years ago I had the pleasure of reading Wizards First Rule by Terry Goodkind. And though the rest of the novels in the series weren’t as good as the first, something that Zed, the wise old wizard, told Richard has stuck with me for years: Nothing is ever easy.
This mantra has stayed with me for years and has done me well in times of strife and hardship. I only wish it could so the same for Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger.
In a word, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is amazing. It has gone well above and beyond anything I could have expected, anything I could have hoped for and anything I dreamed of. It’s exceeded my expectations and then some and has made me view the entire series of books in a new light.
What I find so shocking is its darkness. The darkness was always there but now it’s out in full force and we see what kind of a world that they live in. It’s a world of power, a world of changing alliances and a world of very dark magic. There are parts in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that left me breathless with their malevolence and there are quite a few parts where I had to sit back and wonder if I would let my child read this.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is about strength, about cunning. About solving puzzles and mysteries that seem unsolvable; it’s about choosing your destiny and what choices you make. It’s also about prejudices and, while reading about the wizarding world, you can’t help but see clear parallels between their world and ours.
Unfortunately, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is also about death. It is a literary bloodbath. There is such violence here, so much bloodshed. And so many deaths.
Because of this, I find myself in a state of mourning. Characters have died that I feel closer to than many real flesh and blood people that I know. I have cried, laughed and cried again through most of this novel and now that I am nearing the end, the end of ten years of waiting and wanting and needing, I feel like as if a part of me is about to die.
I have lived with Harry through so much and the fact that it is coming to an end is something I don’t think I can face. But, I am reminded once again of my mantra: Nothing is ever easy. I will try to be as strong as I can and make Harry proud and finish Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Besides, it need not be an ending. Instead, it will be a new beginning.
Years ago I had the pleasure of reading Wizards First Rule by Terry Goodkind. And though the rest of the novels in the series weren’t as good as the first, something that Zed, the wise old wizard, told Richard has stuck with me for years: Nothing is ever easy.
This mantra has stayed with me for years and has done me well in times of strife and hardship. I only wish it could so the same for Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger.
In a word, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is amazing. It has gone well above and beyond anything I could have expected, anything I could have hoped for and anything I dreamed of. It’s exceeded my expectations and then some and has made me view the entire series of books in a new light.
What I find so shocking is its darkness. The darkness was always there but now it’s out in full force and we see what kind of a world that they live in. It’s a world of power, a world of changing alliances and a world of very dark magic. There are parts in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that left me breathless with their malevolence and there are quite a few parts where I had to sit back and wonder if I would let my child read this.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is about strength, about cunning. About solving puzzles and mysteries that seem unsolvable; it’s about choosing your destiny and what choices you make. It’s also about prejudices and, while reading about the wizarding world, you can’t help but see clear parallels between their world and ours.
Unfortunately, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is also about death. It is a literary bloodbath. There is such violence here, so much bloodshed. And so many deaths.
Because of this, I find myself in a state of mourning. Characters have died that I feel closer to than many real flesh and blood people that I know. I have cried, laughed and cried again through most of this novel and now that I am nearing the end, the end of ten years of waiting and wanting and needing, I feel like as if a part of me is about to die.
I have lived with Harry through so much and the fact that it is coming to an end is something I don’t think I can face. But, I am reminded once again of my mantra: Nothing is ever easy. I will try to be as strong as I can and make Harry proud and finish Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Besides, it need not be an ending. Instead, it will be a new beginning.
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