Read the Harry Potter books

So, I’m still striving to read 52 books this year, but I’m also reading the HP books. I’ve read the first two and am waiting for a friend to lend me the 3rd one. I’ve got the 4th checked out from the library already. I’m hoping to catch up through Year 6, or at least Year 5 by the time the sixth movie comes out this summer (3D, yea!).

I just have the very last book to read. I’ve added it to my pile of books to read even though I’ve had it since it came out and actually went to the book store to wait in line. My Aunt requested I read them, and she pasted away right after reading the last one, I haven’t been able to read it yet, but will do my best to get in read this year to say I have and (hopefully) move on.

Last night, in bed just before I fell asleep, it dawned on me how everything would end. I asked Tommy and he confirmed it, though there was a pause where I could tell he was thinking “But I thought you didn’t want me to tell you how it ended!”

What a great story. Rowling certainly created a masterpiece.

I’m 1/4 of the way into The Half-Blood Prince, and I can hardly wait to finish the series.

4/19, there is a personal reason, and I’ve already read some, but would like to finish the series.

I started reading the Harry Potter books in November and I’ve read a book a month, so at this point, I have only The Half Blood Prince and The Deathly Hallows left.

I definitely enjoy them! J.K. Rowling is certainly a very talented author. But I am relieved that I waited til they were all published to start reading. I’m not one to follow trends and hype, so not only did I NOT want to have to fight the riots at the books stores, I was a bit prejudiced as well. What makes THESE books so much better than any other of the books I’ve read? I’m still not sure, because while they are richly imaginative wonderful stories, is there a whole lot of difference between most of the other books I’ve read and loved? No, not really. Ender’s Game and all the Ender’s Saga will still rank higher in my list than Harry Potter will; Redwall, while very different, never got the recognition that HP did, and I love The Chronicles of Narnia to this day.

Another small thing that put me off for a bit was the virtual war on Harry Potter because of “witchcraft”. I’m very much a God fearing Christian, but um, come on. Harry Potter is not pagan; Hogwarts is not a religion! I don’t mind one bit if a parent doesn’t want their child reading HP – that’s up to you! – but don’t be freaking out because Harry Potter was born a wizard. There was “magic” in Narnia, too, and C.S. Lewis was a highly regarded Christian author. The difference between HP and CoN is basically no more than Narnia was a different world, and Harry’s world is a part of our own.

Then I’ve also heard parents say they dislike Harry because he is “disobedient” to authority, which REALLY made my jaw drop. As these are primarily American parents, I’m reminded of the scene in the Nicolas Cage movie “National Treasure” where Cage’s character toasts to the founding fathers of the United States, saying that had they been caught for their “treason”, they would have been killed, but they did what they knew was right. Subsequently an entire country was formed because of those ideals. THEY were disobedient to authority. The apostle Paul was disobedient to authority, too, many times being imprisoned and beaten for doing what he knew was right.

Disobedience is not always wrong.

Hopefully today I’ll be able to grab The Half Blood Prince from the library. All this time later it’s still surprising to go in there and find the shelf empty!

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hi there..

Great series, a big Potter fan here! =D

I’ve read them all and I think 3-5 are the best. Then it gets kinda I dunno… I just thing that the lest two aren’t as good as I thought they be. But maybe I was expecting too much

Well I started reading them last month and I’m on 3 now…I absolutely LOVE them…