ahoy all you muggleheads !!
yup my next blog is 'bout the world's most famous boy wizard-
two years gone by and the world is back to celebrating what seems to have became an international festival in the last decade- the harry potter book release festival!!(apparently the movie release is a much much smaller festival, celebrated only by the everchangin' HP director and the leading trio).
JK rowling gets back to doing what she does best and better than anybody alive(Tolkien's dead isn't he?!) - dishing out adventures of a teenager wizard living in a world which is ours too but different in more ways than one, and lacing it up with humour, moral, emotions, relationships... phew!! boy that's more than you get in a standard lay's pack! the seventh and (celebrate!!) not the last book but probably the last in the series of the continuing adventure of harry potter and his friends-deathly hallows is out and is selling faster than the fastest snitch! the book has already become the fastest and largest selling book in history.. ever!
but the book do justice to all the hype? well if you ask me it does and more importantly it proves that rowling is a lot more than just a 'fun' kiddy books writer. the book's way darker than all the others, the whole manuscript seems to be written by rowling at a diner overlooking a graveyard!(oh yah harry survives all right,but..) humour is toned down so that the message of the series drives home, rather than having the reader guffaw at 'vomit toffee' or 'neville and ron' jokes,which is quite a suprise,considering that they were the series mainstay and USP.but it still makes the book quite a good read.
the story starts with harry making a dash to the burrow with his auror pals riding on the pillion of hagrid's bike,and a brilliant plan(simple but effective), the plan falls through and mad-eye loses his eye-and his head and george loses his ear(and feels all holey) courtsey snape. what follows is a run-up to bill and fleurs weddings mixed with harry discovering that there were still a lot of secrets to be discovered(dumbledore wasn't exactly a demigod after all, or was he?). the trio however has to make the run for it as the wedding is attacked and take shelter first at Grimmaulds Place and then at various camping grounds.in the process harry discovers the family mail, and RAB-Regulas Black,Sirius's bro, the Gauntstone horcrux. however what follows after all this agreed to be by most fans the books most boring and weakest part, days of camping and searching, arguing, food scavenging,hiding, the works.the only explaination that JKR could give is that she made the part boring and mechanical so that the reader gets harry's frustation during the period.the only intresting part is a showdown between a voldy controlled nagina in the disguise of a bathilda bagshot(know this is confusing)- an old timer harry expects to know something 'bout dumbledore and his family, and harry and hermione where harry almost dies.
the sidetracks also contains of numerous intresting stories, a story of dumbledore and his beginnings, about his family and his friends or rather his friend and a scandal Rita Skeeter digs up; a story of the 3 deathly hallows- a elder wand(a wander that will never lose a duel), a resurrection stone(a stone that sort of brings the dead back,sort of..) and the invisible cloak(the very same!) and how they came into being and their footprints through history; and flashes of voldys life that harry gets to see courtsey his scar-voldy's present and past;the death eaters take over of the ministry,and everything along with it-the muggle wizards leniency, azkaban,freedom and piece and top it with something of their own-a 'voldemort' curse and a muggle wizards registration panel and of course power.
all the stories tie up together in the brilliantly written last chapters which tells the story of the great hogwarts war- how a school filled up of mostly underaged wizards, peaceful teachers and a handful aurors managed to bring down voldy and his death eaters(yup a dozen characters die here too). also the last chapters reveal snape's true loyalty to dumbledore and his memories-his life times, probably the best part of the book describing the life and times of a prince-severus snape. and last but definately not the least harry's showdown with voldy, how the deathly hallows connects to him, and how harry(or rather 'one') becomes the true master of death. dumbledore makes a comeback in the last episodes as harry meets him on the platform for the 'train' to st. peters, where he(or rather rowling) wraps up the series by answering all and all the questions and revealing all the secrets, thanks to which harry comes back and kicks voldys arsse !
the last chapter and probably the most loved and hated chapter of the series, the epilogue is titled 19 yrs later, describes a harry 19 yrs later married to ginny and off course a happily married ron and hermione, each with a bunch of kids. describes the day harry's second son and ron's daughter are leaving for hogwarts.the chapter is rowling's masterstroke.rowling probably realized that killing the character would probably not be a perfect excuse to refuse writing any other HP books as has been the case with holmes and superman. so she catapults the reader to a time where harryis 19 yrs older, who wants a harry with middle aged problems?the chapter in itself however is a charm-great to see our hero living his life, handing out advice to his kids, similar to dumbledore. it ends with the perfect line ever, The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen 19 years, all was well.
yup all is well, except our boy wizard and his adventures which brought sunshine into many's lives and probably whose end would wake a lot of people from a decade old sweet slumber.
'til next time
a little less pottier
ishan 'juggernaut' roy
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