Harry Potter [SPOILERS]

OK, so in October I began reading the Harry Potter series for the first time in my life.  And oh my gosh, can I just state I have missed out on so much fun.

(First of all, I want to say something to the homeschoolers/Christians reading this.  You might feel frustrated to think that I, being a hardcore Christian, am reading books that contain witchcraft, sorcery and magic.  Well, let me be frank.  Yes, these books contain those topics.  Yes, I wouldn't want my six-year-old reading them or watching the movies.  They're dark.  But honestly, I believe that if you're mature enough to handle some of the mature content, then I'm pretty sure you won't be sent over to the Dark Lord's side.)

Now, to get back onto point.  I love J.K. Rowling's writing style.  It's so witty, blissful and yet, so impacting.  I just finished the sixth book, and I cried my eyes out.  I normally don't cry when characters die in movies or books, not because I have no feels or sense of emotion, I just find that the tears don't come.  Call me insensitive and harsh.  It's just the way I work I suppose.  But believe me when I say that my mind undergoes internal turmoil when great tragedy strikes in books or movies;  my mind becomes this wormhole of emotions that swirls and tears and screams inside my head.  I just get drastically depressed throughout the day and can't seem to wrap my head around the fact that the character is gone.  I believe that this is what makes a writer a fantastic writer.  They can get us enveloped in the stories they create and the webs that they weave, that when they throw and unexpected twist at us, we flip out and scream "oh my god they've done it.  How dare they actually do what I did not want or expect them to do!"

It's the inner anxiety and strife that we, as readers, have to endure.  We are at the authors disposal.  Try as we might, beg as we want, we can't change the story.  But, generally, if the author is a superior one, they will always have a rhyme and reason to why certain deaths must occur.  Now, I know this full well in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.  I have to rant for a second.  Bear with me.

So, I've always hated Severus Snape.  Hated his guts.  I hate the reasons for which he blames Harry, I hate his arrogance, etc.  But in the back of my tiny little brain, I've always known he is in the story for a purpose that we don't expect.  No matter how bad Rowling makes him look, he has good.  I especially noticed it in this book.  And, when he kills Dumbledore, I saw the situation as Dumbledore, for some reason, asking Snape to kill him.  And it was some secret message the two had already discussed, or planned between them, that made Snape do what he did.  I just have faith in Snape.  And, surprisingly, him killing Dumbledore made me have more faith then I ever did before.  That there is something behind all of Snape's disloyal, vile and sinister ways.  I just don't know it yet!

I'm very excited to read the final installment of the Harry Potter series.  Well, I'm excited and scared at the same time.  I also don't want to read it, simply because I don't want my Harry Potter journey of adventures and excitement to end.  The seventh book is the end.  I've heard tales that the ending is satisfying and all nice and dandy.  But darn, I will miss waking up in the morning, seeing the book on my bedside and thinking to myself, "I am excited to read what happens next in the story of the Boy who Lived."

-Cari