potters inc
Caution: Spoilers ahead
Even after shamelessly finishing Deathly Hallows in one sitting - in which all bodily movements were reduced to stagnation - you can't help wondering what is so special about Harry Potter? I could fragment a story about a snot nosed castaway (with meagre fire making talents) who uncovered his royal ancenstry twenty seven feet below a grunting holly tree and the publishers would still haul me out by the collar.
Deathly Hallows was morbidly fascinating. I still withold the impeccable desire to flood JK Rowling's email with hate mail and infallible viruses for finishing off Snape. I convince myself its because cluttering her inbox would be insignificant, to say impaling her. (Note: All indications to potential violence are merely signs to the writer's temporary lapse of sanity. The writer wishes no physical harm on even a hair on JK Rowling's head let alone her head. Her defunct morbidity finds sufficient pleasure in imagining it) But we all know that my technological limitations render me incapable of even sourcing for her email address - I am hopeless with search engines.
WHY IS SNAPE NOT ALIVE?
No, I am not happy that Harry's alive and corpulating. I am sure he's a very admirable hero beneath all the layers of suffocating angst. Yet, I still prefer brooding Snape. Ron, too was brilliantly sarcastic throughout the book even if sometimes the sarcasm felt repeated.
Beyond everything I appreciate JK Rowling's ability to flesh out her characters. Her heroes aren't smooth edged, epitomes of courage. She scrubs their flaws out and exposes them to their vulnerabilities throughout the series. Heroes are heroes not because they achieve but because even when tossed down they have the courage and will to get up and fight.
The final book feels like the culmination, a finale to an era which had embraced everyone. .And yes, even beyond all my naive years of anxious imagination, and frantic desperation I still believe beyond this corporeal world of rigidity there lays a realm of surrealism. Maybe that's what makes Harry Potter special - the promise of a magic so incarnate you yearn for it to be true.
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