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I've just finished the last book of HP, and MAN! I do have to say that Jo really out-done herself in the last book. SOOOO emotionally tight!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean, especially when the death eaters suddenly rose up beside Harry and Hagrid, MAN! that totally scared me! And when I find out that it was Snape who had cut off George's ear (accidental, as I found out later on in the book)I was so LIVID with Snape!!!!!! but my first real sad moment was when they found of from Bill that Mad-Eye didn't make the trip... I was so sad. This is Mad-Eye Moody that we're talking about! The one who had survived being locked in a CHEST for who knows how long in the fourth book, DEAD!!!!!! I had a cry for him, but I had to find out what happened next, so I had to leave him behind. I have to admit, Jo really out-did herself, especially when I found out that my line of thinking (about how the prophecy still had a part to play, or else why else would Jo make such a BIG emphasis on it in the 5th book?) was similar to that of Jo's, I felt a bit of triumph, for my friend Alison said that the prophecy had nothing to do with the story anymore, and that it was just something to help along the story. Jo sure proved her wrong. HA! IN YOUR FACE, ALI!!!!!! (Sorry, I just had to get that out of my system... much better now, however. ^^)

To tell the truth, I didn't know how much I was anticipating the book until I was actually reading it AFTER I bought the book (much to my mom's disapproving looks). I thought that I could just borrow it from Ali or Brandi or Jess, but then I went to the book store anyway, you know, just to check it out. Before I knew it, I was walking away from the book store, and a brand new Harry Potter book clutched in my arms. It wasn't until much later (dare I mention that it was an excruciating one hour?) that I actually got to read the book.

As Harry went through the journey of finding the remaining Horcruxes, he meets obstacles that he thought that he would never have to overcome. However, each time he leaps over them, he becomes stronger, surer of himself and what he has to do. I felt that if Harry was a real person (NOT Daniel Radcilffe, although that wouldn't be TOO bad, I guess ^^;; wink , then I could somewhat side with him, no matter what. I grew up in a loving family, but for some reason, I always felt like I was an outsider, never the one to fit in completely. I really am a loud, out-going person, but at home, I felt stifled, like I don't belong. It wasn't until I started to read Harry Potter that I started to open up a bit. Baby steps, of course, but steps towards being who I really am. Hitting gr.8 was probably the most decisive year of my short 17 years of living on this earth. If I didn't get to know Vanessa, then I wouldn't have been able to know Alison, and if I didn't decide to go into music, I would have NEVER been able to know Sterling, and find out that we were in the same honor band together in gr.7 (he was alto, I was tenor sax), and if I didn't have English in the same semester as Brandi, she and I would have never met.

To some degree, Harry Potter was what really got me thinking whether or not that there was some greater force out there, guiding me towards this book, to show me that my friends, like Harry's, will show me that there's nothing more frightening than facing life alone, like Tom Riddle and Severus Snape did. They were all boys, orphaned through horrible means, all tied up in one fate. However, there's one thing that separated Harry from the latter two: The love he felt and had for everything living, whether it was a house-elf, goblin, or a traitor of friends, will ring on in the hearts of his fans, and mine...