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All was well.
07.22.07
Ah, now what ever shall I do now that I'm done reading Harry Potter? haha. I believe Rowling did her best on the finale. All of my questions were answered, and more. I am happy with how she handled it, though I can see why she thinks a lot of her readers will not like it. The book is not very happy... it is filled with doubt, despair, and failure... but there are numerous examples and meanings on how to live life. It's not just a child's tail anymore. The series escaped the clutches of being forever trapped in child's games, and grew up, making it more adaptable to life.
I still wish for some closure though for some of the side characters... I mean... I liked how it was but, I wanted more, what happens to everyone else?? Draco's hair is receeding... good to know.
Oh, and I was kind of ticked... before I got the book I was having a discussion about whether or not Harry was going to die... I said yes, and before I could explain myself, she was frantic and said 'You want Voldemort to win??' and shook her head and walked off with me still sitting there blinking my eyes like mad. Voldemort winning never seriously came into my mind (unless I was being my Slytherin self, of course)... but Harry dieing would be one of those bitter-sweet endings. Oh, and I love the Martyr...
British authors using quotes from one of the founding fathers of the US? It humors me.... :D
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.
- William Penn, More Fruits of Solitude
Oh, the torment bred in the race,
the grinding scream of death
and the stoke that hits the vein,
the hemorrhage none can staunch, the grief,
the curse no man can bear.
But there is a cure in the house,
and not outside it, no,
not from others but from them,
their bloody strife. We sing to you,
dark gods beneath the earth.
No hear, you blissful powers underground -
answer the call, send help;
Bless the children, give them triumph now.
- Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers
Ah, now what ever shall I do now that I'm done reading Harry Potter? haha. I believe Rowling did her best on the finale. All of my questions were answered, and more. I am happy with how she handled it, though I can see why she thinks a lot of her readers will not like it. The book is not very happy... it is filled with doubt, despair, and failure... but there are numerous examples and meanings on how to live life. It's not just a child's tail anymore. The series escaped the clutches of being forever trapped in child's games, and grew up, making it more adaptable to life.
I still wish for some closure though for some of the side characters... I mean... I liked how it was but, I wanted more, what happens to everyone else?? Draco's hair is receeding... good to know.
Oh, and I was kind of ticked... before I got the book I was having a discussion about whether or not Harry was going to die... I said yes, and before I could explain myself, she was frantic and said 'You want Voldemort to win??' and shook her head and walked off with me still sitting there blinking my eyes like mad. Voldemort winning never seriously came into my mind (unless I was being my Slytherin self, of course)... but Harry dieing would be one of those bitter-sweet endings. Oh, and I love the Martyr...
British authors using quotes from one of the founding fathers of the US? It humors me.... :D
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.
- William Penn, More Fruits of Solitude
Oh, the torment bred in the race,
the grinding scream of death
and the stoke that hits the vein,
the hemorrhage none can staunch, the grief,
the curse no man can bear.
But there is a cure in the house,
and not outside it, no,
not from others but from them,
their bloody strife. We sing to you,
dark gods beneath the earth.
No hear, you blissful powers underground -
answer the call, send help;
Bless the children, give them triumph now.
- Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers
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