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It was 2000 when I first read Harry Potter. My friend Super Suz recommended the series to me but I put off reading it for ages. I wasn’t into reading much young adult stuff back then and my argument for not reading them was that I wasn’t interested in reading children’s book. How book-snobbish of me.
It was around the time the first film was coming out and I was hearing a lot about the controversy that was being stirred up over witchcraft and censorship. Censorship and banning books is one of my ...more
It was around the time the first film was coming out and I was hearing a lot about the controversy that was being stirred up over witchcraft and censorship. Censorship and banning books is one of my ...more
Jim Dale Audio's 2011:
This one continues to expand. I, also, feels like so much happen in this book that there is almost too much happening for it be all kept in mind all at once. It's so very stacked all together.
We have more about the power of love from all edges. About the choice of whether to believe in prophecy or not, the importance of blood over anything else. Home's are in danger, people become prisoners. We start having to choose what is worth dying for as a whole group of people, esp ...more
This one continues to expand. I, also, feels like so much happen in this book that there is almost too much happening for it be all kept in mind all at once. It's so very stacked all together.
We have more about the power of love from all edges. About the choice of whether to believe in prophecy or not, the importance of blood over anything else. Home's are in danger, people become prisoners. We start having to choose what is worth dying for as a whole group of people, esp ...more
J.K. Rowling is a great writer. She brings another world to life in the eyes of fans all around the Earth. She has been criticized for creating a world and just going off of an original idea not knowing what was going to happen next. It does not matter how she did it, but she did create a world that I personally have seen in friends that awakens the reader in a dormant person. I have been able to see even more people starting to read in their daily lives because of J.K. Rowling. Granted those pe
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I remember not liking this one *quite* as much as the others when I originally read it. During my first reading I felt like Harry was whiny and intentionally wallowing instead of allowing others to help him and that drove me a little crazy. This time I feel like I understood his reaction to the chaos and danger and confusion and frustration and tragedy of all that he was facing and I really appreciated the story a lot more. I wonder if it has anything to do with having watched the film version o
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