Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Essay Example

school classes, dueling clubs and similar things that are insignificant in the cold cruel real world of actions and consequences that Harry lives in now. This makes the plot so incredibly taut and fast that whenever I thought it was safe let my guard down and stop chewing my nails something would happen that would make me chew my nails with renewed vigor (My manicured nails now look like a bunch of rodents have been to work at ‘em). The painfully real beginning hits the reader like a slap on the face.

This sets the feel of the rest of the book which (as I have already said) moves at a breathless pace. There are no slow moments(unlike the 5th book which felt like chewing gum that’s been chewed for too long towards the end) The climax is surreal despite rising to a chaotic final crescendo.

But alas the ending was an unexpectedly expected one, not expectedly unexpected as I expectedly expected of her (Lather rinse and repeat to understand ;p ) But then as I come to think of it she could hardly screw the whole story just for the sake of giving us a surprise in the end.

Since this is a very early review I respect people’s desire to read the book and unravel the story themselves, I’ll just give the basic plot with no spoilers: Harry is on the run with Ron and Hermione attempting to accomplish the task entrusted to them by Dumbledore – Finding the horcruxes that contain bits of Voldemort’s soul and destroy them to make him mortal again. They travel from place to place in the country,

away from safety and comforts of home and school, trying to avoid capture, making mistakes, often losing conviction yet moving on (Reminding me a lot of Frodo,Sam and Golum’s journey in LOTR).

They escape several horrendously tight spots by the skin of teeth, suffering irrevocable losses each time yet they never dither.

Along the way they also discover something more than the horcruxes, something they didn’t intend to find – The deathly hallows (What they are is something that cannot be told in a supposedly spoiler free review). Meanwhile darkness seeps like poison throughout the veins of the magical world rapidly as Voldemort and his supporters move in open and unleashes a regime of terror on muggles, muggle-borns, squibs and all those who oppose him.

Both the ministry and Hogwarts are under his dominance. We also get answers to all unanswered questions as the story unfolds. Even things mentioned only in passing in earlier books constitute as the missing pieces in the jig-saw puzzle.

We discover things about Lily Potter, Snape (I always knew that a character as enigmatic as he had a story to tell) and…Dumbledore – the haloed wizard who we discover had feet of clay after all. What I really really admire about Rowling’s books is that she is never hypocritical.

She doesn’t pretend that world is fairy tale where on one hand there are good people who are harmless fluffy bunnies with not a drop of anything bad about them an on the other the black bastards who are just pure evil. Both the good people and the bad people have hints of grey and white… everbody has their own insecurities,

their own fears to deal with (Well, I think people like Voldemort and Umbridge are just deviant perverts and don’t comply to this theory).

She also showed that there will always be people for whom the end justifies the means and those people who hurt any propaganda that jeopardizes their position of advantage. Rowling has surpassed all the previous books with this one. The narrative is flawless, the humor (which is very scanty in this book) subtle. She makes you weep with grief at every death and parting, feel as terrified as the characters in dangers, sigh with relief at every narrow escapes, feel jubilant at every small triumph….

he makes you leave your mundane world behind and enter that of Harry’s which is built so convincingly engaging that you could just reach out and touch it. This was by far her best. So ended the journey we begun with Harry 10 years ago. The journey has had its ups and downs but well… all is well that ends with a well written book. I close it with a tear in my eye and a smile on my lips as I bid adieu to Harry Potter – the boy who lived, lives, and will live forever in a magical corner of my heart.

My verdict:8/10 Bluegenemaid