Harry Potter Day around here....

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Harry Potter Day around here....
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Sat, 07-21-2007 - 11:05am

So our preordered copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows just arrived. My dd was up early this morning so anxious and nervous to get her copy. She's been waiting for months. I checked my order history online and I preordered the book for her in February! Last night I took her out to see a movie to distract her from her anticipation. There were alot of Harry Potter events in the city but we don't live close enough to have participated unfortunately.

Just as she did with Half Blood Prince, the courier brought the book to the door, rang the bell and she just RACED down the stairs to grab the book. She jumped up and down, squealed a bit and then prepared for a full day of reading.

Her ritual with new books is the same every time: she takes out the book, runs her hand over the cover, reads the entire jacket, cracks it open, smells it (she says she loves the smell of new books and I agree with her), read the dedication and then kicked me out of her room so she could start reading. She only regrets that she has to break for lunch!!! LOL!!!

She will read all day until she's finished it. Based on the size of the book and that she started around 10:30AM, I figure she will be done by 8PM. Then I will finally get my opportunity to read the book. I admit last time, I read almost straight through the night until I was done.

Its a great thing to share this sort of thing with my daughter. I was an avid reader myself and she seems to have inherited that gene and we love to discuss books we've both read. Harry Potter is a unique phenomenon indeed given adults and children alike can enjoy the stories.

Happy Harry Potter day to you all!

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Registered: 08-17-2005
Thu, 07-26-2007 - 1:04pm

My house is divided on it.

Carlin absolutely loved it, and though she did not cry she did find some parts to be very sad. For an entire day she was hermit and I actually brought her food so that she wouldn't starve. She had it finished by that night. She hopes that Rowling will make the Encyclopedia so she can learn about the outcomes of the other characters.

Shea on the other hand was greatly disappointed. She felt that it had a slow pace that most of the events were coincidental. She did feel sad about some parts of it, but for the most part did not love the book. With the others she could hardly put the book down, but with this one she took a ton of breaks. Like your daughter, she found it to be too much of a cookie cutter ending. She did not think that by killing the other characters was just a way for someone to die and to avoid actually killing one of the main characters. Also, she thninks that the Encylopedia is just JK Rowling milking it for more money,especially since Rowling will never write a book this successful again, but she added who wouldn't.

They have commenced arguing again and my house is back to its old self.

Stephanie

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Registered: 02-14-2007
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 8:18am
Well, I am going to add my two cents here. My kids still haven't finished reading it, but I put everything on hold for 2 days so I could read it all before anyone spoiled the ending for me. I thought it was fantastic--a roller-coaster ride, full of surprises, with so much explanation of the entire series, and it really couldn't have ended any other way! The entire point is the triumph of love and bravery and honor over evil. I cried when I got to the last page, just because I was sad that the whole thing was over.
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Fri, 07-27-2007 - 9:16am

I agree with you and that's why we have chose for all of our family to read all the books ,see all the movies, and have bought all the DVD's of the movies available.

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