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I've read all of the Harry Potter books and I love them so much! I have read hundreds of books and over the summer. I read a book every day, but the Harry Potter series by J.K.Rowling is by far my favorite. I love the way the characters develope and change throughout the novels. I also love all of the interesting names and creatures that flow from J.K.Rowling's imagination and into the book. When I read it, sometimes I cried, feeling the characters as if they were a part of me. Also when I read it, I felt as if I was in the story, where everyone was my friend and they all liked me for who I was, which doesn't always happen in real life. I love the books so much, I have memorized whole chapters and I can flip open to any page and go on a two-hour rant about it--(No, seriously, I timed myself and it was two hours and ten minutes!) I love the way everything fits together so smoothly and I love the way J.K. Rowling uses foreshadowing to a great wonder of all of her readers. I love them so much! Please read them if you haven't, and I am sure that you will fall in love with them the way I have! The movies are great represntors of the books as well; there are currently six movies out, and seven books, although they are making the seventh book into two movies becuase it is so long!
submitted by Caroline S., age 12, Orchard Park, N
(December 2, 2009 - 4:04 pm)
(December 2, 2009 - 4:04 pm)
Ok, let's get back to HP!!!
Okay, I have a new question, here it is:
Do you think the epilogue is a letdown? If so, why?
(February 7, 2010 - 9:08 pm)
It's kinda funny to see people say "HP" sometimes because those are my first and last innitials! And no, my middle innitial is not "J".
@Caroline: Sorta. Nothing about my favorite characters in it. And it wasn't long enough! The last lines are so touching! When Ginny said "He'll be alright" then Harry said "I know he will". His scar had not pained him for 19 years. All was well. *Bahahahaha!!!!**cries hysterically* The-best-book-series-in-the-world-is-over!!!!
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(February 8, 2010 - 1:15 pm)
I thought it was sort of a letdown, but mostly because I knew that when I had read the epilogue, I had read the whole series, and then it was over....Maybe that's just me. I thought it was pretty good, for an epilogue, but it made me a little sad to read it.
(February 8, 2010 - 4:19 pm)
@ Hannah, I'm soooooo sorry I said what I did about Bridge to Teribithia. I thought you had already read it. Sooo sorry!
@ Caroline, no, I do not think the epilogue is a letdown, It no longer gives people hope that Harry will die because of dark forces, and it make it so that no one can write another story about Harry Potter because it said "he died a natural death." But that also backfires on JKR. I mean if she wanted to write about Albus and wanted Harry to be in a life-threatening situation and wanted Albus to save him.... I would LOVE it if she did write about Albus.... Sorry, off topic...but then it also means that any other person can't write Harry Potter: mid-life crisis, which JKR did not want. I like that it secures that Harry and Ginny get married and Ron and Hermione get married, because if it didn't there would be pandemonium... fans wanting to know, stuborn people still thinking that Harry and Hermione stilll had hope (which they didn't, ever) etc.
(February 8, 2010 - 11:10 pm)
@ Elizabeth: It's fine Elizabeth because I've already seen the movie and know that the girl dies.
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(February 11, 2010 - 2:28 pm)
O, good, i have a bad tendancy to acidently let out spoilers when i am in a rage
(February 13, 2010 - 11:31 am)
Thanks for answering the question!!
Personally I think that the epilogue is a letdown for the same reasons as Elizabeth, but at the end, I cried for two hours, and then more at night becuase it would mean that there would be no more camping out at Wal'mart for the release of the book (Which, by the way, I have done!)
All you Luna lovers out there, I LOVE how JKR names Harry and Ginny's little girl Lily LUNA Potter! I think that that was sooooo amazing of JKR and my eyes got a little watery when I heard about that.
OK...
Next question, It's kind of more personal to you, but it makes you think!!
Would you want to be a wizard if it meant giving up all your friends?
Answer soon!!!
(February 15, 2010 - 9:41 pm)
@Caroline: NO!!!!! And besides, doing sorcery and magic is against the Bible. You may be thinking to yourself Then why does she even read Harry Potter? Well for one, Harry Potter is only a story. And J.K. Rowling never says anything in the books saying that magic is in the real world. Have you ever noticed how she (JKR) never says any actual names of books, movies, stores, companies, et cetera that exist in the real world? Just read Looking for God in Harry Potter.
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(February 16, 2010 - 9:50 pm)
Ok, i don't relly have a lot of friends... there is Issy, but we put up with each other in a friendly loving cousinly way, and you guys, so i would choose to be a wizard.
(February 16, 2010 - 10:21 pm)
No, I wouldn't want to be a wizard if it meant giving up my friends. I'm also with Hannah P., there are no wizards in the real world because God didn't intend there to be, and He says witchcraft etc. are wrong. However, if God did create the world so that various people would be wizards (like in Harry Potter), I think it would be fun to be one.
(Please don't think I am attacking you, Caroline, or appearing to think that you think wizards are real. I know you know they aren't, and I'm just stating my opinion. :)
(February 17, 2010 - 10:43 am)
Well, I agree with Hannah about what she said, but I might mention that King's Cross is an actual railroad station!
I guess I would have to be faced with the situation to really choose, I mean, I would make tons of wizarding friends, I suppose, but being a wizard would basically mean giving up my (muggle) future. I mean,(humbly) I have a wonderful singing voice and btw if America's Got Talent (Elizabeth, it's like a nation-wide talent show) ever rolls near where I live, I am soooo auditioning
Back to topic:
Hannah, no offense, but I think that HP has progressed into something more than just a story, becuase everyone knows about it and sometimes it is used in a normal conversation. I think that it's turning into something like "A Christmas Carol" where nowadays everyone knows what it is and you may hear people saying, "Don't be such a Scrooge," or swomething like that. I would love it if that happened to such a drastic effect!!!
I <3 Harry Potter!!!
(February 17, 2010 - 4:37 pm)
@Caroline: No offense taken at all.
Me and my sisters when we would trip on something we would sometimes say something like "I had a Tonks moment," and we would understand what it meant because we all knew that Tonks was always tripping over stuff.
And about the King's Cross thing, I did notice that last night after I had posted that particular comment.
Hmmmm, is it alright if I start making questions about Harry Potter too?
Which is your favorite house in Harry Potter?
I like Ravenclaw. They're smart, wise, creative. And then comes Hufflepuff, they're nice and loyal and just. Gryffindor, eh, they and Slytherin both have this kind of pride about themselves it seems. I don't like Gryffindor or Slytherin very much, but if I had to choose between one, then it would have to be Gryffindor.
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(February 18, 2010 - 2:19 pm)
I think that most people will probably say Ravenclaw (myself included), because that seems to be a popular house to pick in roleplays. I don't think we hear enough about Ravenclaw, personally, although things do start happening over there a little more often once Luna comes on the scene. I think Gryffindor's okay, but they do seem to be a bit stuck up a lot of the time. Slytherin, eh, here's my opinion: There were good Slytherins too. I think it would be most unpleasant to be a good, honest, unselfish wizard in Slytherin. They don't seem to respect those qualities very much, so I think maybe everyone would just kind of conform to the common mold and all be nasty. Hufflepuff's good, just not terribly interesting. It was sad that their moment of glory was spoiled because Cedric died after winning the Cup for them.
(February 18, 2010 - 6:28 pm)
@ Hannah, of corse Griffindor & Slytherin have pride. They're boys plus they used to be best friends untill they had a row about who to accept @ Hogwarts, and they diden't relly ever get over it.
I will use the sorting hat's song frequenty in my explanation, so here it is, not butchered:
"Oh,you may not think I'm pretty,
But don't judge on what you see,
I'll eat myself if you can find
A smarter hat than me.
You can keep your bowlers black,
Your tops hatssleek and tall,
For I'm the Hogwarts Sorting Hat
And I can cap them all.
There's nothing hidden in your head
The Sorting Hat can't see,
So try me on and I will tell you
Where you ought to be.
Y ou might belong in Gryffindor,
Where dwell brave of heart,
Their daring, nerve, and chivalry
Set Gryffindors apart;
You might belong inHufflepuff,
Where they are just and loyal,
Those patient Hufflepuffsare true
And unafraid of toil;
Or yet wise old Ravenclaw,
If you've a ready mind,
Where those of wit and learning,
Will always find their kind;
Or perhaps in Slytherin
You'll make your real friends,
Those cunning folk use any means
To achive their ends.
So put me on! Don't be afraid!
And you won't get in a flap!
You're safe in my hands(though I have none)
For I'm a Thinking cap!!"
You'll make your real friends,
Those cunning folk use any means
To achive their ends."
"You might belong in Gryffindor,
Where dwell brave of heart,
Their daring, nerve, and chivalry
Set Gryffindors apart;"
Where they are just and loyal,
Those patient Hufflepuffs are true
And unafraid of toil;"
The song means that they are loyal and fair, they are truth full, patient, and not afraid to work hard for what they want. I adore Hufflepuffs, they are fair to everybody and are just you average underage wizard. I often think Hufflepuffs do not get enough merit for their deeds.
If you've a ready mind,
Where those of wit and learning,
Will always find their kind;"
The song means that Ravenclaw is trusted and wise, people in Ravenclaw are yearning for knowledge,and all Ravenclaws are smart (or witty) and have a passion for learning, and that people in Ravenclaw often connect with each other beacuse of their passion for learning. To me Ravenclaws are steady, faithful and loyal. I'm not exactly sure why I like them. I'll probibly wake up in the middle of the night tonight and know why, then I'll forget.
(February 18, 2010 - 10:03 pm)
I also always sort of connected Neville with Hufflepuff. I don't know why, was there something in one of the books about him being in Hufflepuff instead? Or do I just think that because of Neville's connection with Herbology, and thus Prof. Sprout, who is head of Hufflepuff?
But maybe I am just confusing myself.
(February 19, 2010 - 10:42 am)