Final Blog

When the series was coming out, I was very excited for the next books, and was very avid about reading them. When I was gone to a Boy Scout camp, I was reading the Half Blood Prince, and this kid from my troop decided to ruin the book, not only for me, but for everyone else at the camp. I grew to hate this kid, and couldn't read the book, knowing the ending. By time the Deathly Hallows came out, the ending for that had been ruined for me as well. I was not very happy with this. Therefore, I did not read the books again, until this class.

In reading the books, I could have predicted a happy ending despite the endings being ruined. Happy endings tie everything together, and the fact that JK had written such great books before, she wouldn't write a bad ending. At the same time, an unhappy ending would have been good, because now I wouldn't be expecting/wanting more books. Now I want books about their kids lives, who have some really weird names. I did not like how JK made all of their kids have meshed together names like that. But then again, idk. I do like that she did include the part about their futures into the ending. I thought this tied everything together well. But like I said before, I now want more books.

Harry was going to live the whole time, I mean come one, he is the boy who lived. There was no way he was going to die. The fact that he was able to defeat Voldemort, makes him in fact the most powerful wizard alive. I thought this would have come anyway, plus it is the biggest theme in any story, good overcomes bad. That's just how it works. But endings where the bad guy wins are not common, but I think throughout the series, both good and bad have won, but good came out on top. I liked the mix. I feel this was strong, and it ended the series well. I might have also liked to have seen Harry maybe struggle with internal evil a bit more. It seems like it affected him a tiny bit, but nothing to a major scale. I think that would have been interesting to see. But all in all, I liked the books and the series, I just wished it had been tweeked in minor ways and maybe like one or two more books inbetween.