ive finally completed the seven Harry Potter books! completed them last saturday but finished reading book seven this afternoon, sunday, 1:43pm. still having a bit of some kind of "withdrawal syndrome" since finishing book seven meant no more harry potter books to look forward to. that harry potter's story has come to an end. anyway, the past two weeks had been a bit interesting because i finished 3 potter books in this 2 weeks and watched the fifth movie twice. and thats not because of being some "potterhead". it just so happened that i had to read book 5 first before seeing the movie, so i finished it around 3am of july 11, hours before the movie was released (started reading it around july 9, but ive read the first half already months earlier so, technically, its 2 potter books and a half, since i was halfway through and i dont know why i stopped reading months before). and after seeing the movie last july 11 around 2:30pm, having an unread book 6 (a gift from college blockmates), i decided to read it just because my liking for the series was restored. it took me a couple of days to read it and finished it on july 15, 12:47am. after a week, went to see the fifth movie again with my siblings, which coincided with the day the seventh book was released. i was tempted to buy it, which i did and read it that night. finished the book the following day at 1:43pm. i usually read the books in one sitting (books 5 and 6 were exceptions and a bit of book 7 since i had to sleep a little...read until 4am, continued around 9am). if i was in my old and real "harry potter fan" mode, i would have indulged more (looked for potter merchandise and goodies in malls, spent hours on the net for harry potter stuff, probably rented DVDs of the earlier movies). but i cant do that now im in law school, there's really no time to waste. and i thought that i might have outgrown it. well, i have but only a little bit.
focusing on book seven, The Deathly Hallows is really brilliant. its a good final installment. its really filled with what most readers probably hoped for. though there are questions that remain unanswered, they're really minor stuff (really minor) and another book would never be needed to fill these things in (i dont even think the questions are enough to make a book out of it). i was hoping that the book could have been longer but its length is good enough that it doesnt appear to be something condensed. i would have wanted 300 pages more and a longer (because i didnt want it to end) and a more encompassing epilogue but thats asking too much and might ruin the fact that its the last book. i mean, JK Rowling cant answer everything for the readers or fill everything in. somehow, i think, that a sense of longing should remain to intensify the impact of the final installment but at the same time wont disappoint the readers for leaving out too much stuff that could make it insufficient to bring things to a close. book seven is much different from the first 6 because it really doesnt take place in Hogwarts and i think this is the most action-filled, also character-filled (in terms of significant roles), of all the books. the book doesnt also fail to take into consideration the necessary details. though there was a portion that got a bit monotonous, the book remained to be an enjoyable read all through out.
after finishing it, i sort of experienced some sort of "withdrawal syndrome" right after (still experiencing a bit of it now). after all these years, ive finally completed it. now what? its always been a problem when collecting stuff that are...well, easy to collect or something thats limited. it took years to finally get to book seven and now that im done reading it, and once the thought that the story has ended has sunk in and no more stories of potter and his friends to eagerly look forward to, its just a bit hard to really think that you finally need to say goodbye to the characters and their magical world. ive never been much of a "fanstasy" reader, always had been someone to go for "sci-fi" books, harry potter was one of the exceptions (i like Studio Ghibli films..but then again, thats not a book). back then, i didnt expect i was going to like such a book, and ive never really heard about it until i got book 2 of the series as a gift years ago, most likely christmas of 2000, if not the year earlier. and from there i got hooked and after all these years, its has come to an end. well, there's always reading all seven books again, but thats not the same as reading a new installment. there's two more movies but after the fifth one, i just hope David Yates makes a film close to the 3rd or 4th for The Half-Blood Prince (i know people liked what Yates did but unfortunately, im not a fan of the fifth movie or maybe i had high expectations after the 4th movie). and whoever is going to direct the seventh and final Harry Potter film, he or she better make it as the best of all the Potter films. demanding git aint i?
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