harry potter and the deathly hallows

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Hmmm… not too jazzed by this one. Maybe it has to do with it being that I’ve yet to see the movie version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince? More likely the fact that as much as I love the Harry Potter books, I’ve grown weary of the film adaptations. They’ve diverted so much from the original novels that I for one would welcome a new attempt to make a movie franchise of this series ten or so years from now (ideally one movie a year for seven years, with the same cast). ‘Twould definitely benefit from being produced in hindsight.

Anyways, there’s yer first teaser poster for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the first part of which is due out later this year....

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In a move that will have many thinking back to how Quentin Tarantino handled Kill Bill, word is that the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be told across two full-length movies.

And no, making more money out of this final chapter of the Harry Potter saga is said to have nothing to do with it. The problem is something that most fans of the books have noticed in the film series: that with each new chapter in the movie version of the story, whole chunks of pertinent details from the books are getting cut out. This was especially a problem with this past summer’s movie of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Not to mention the fact that Deathly Hallows is an incredibly dense book that ties up every thread that’s been left dangling across the previous six books. There’s ...

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Perhaps more so than she has ever done since the publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling has started talking about the deeper theological meaning of her runaway bestselling books… and especially the profound Christian underpinnings that only really came into focus with the final novel of the Harry Potter series. Here’s the story at MTV.com.

Among the highlights…

But if she was worried about tipping her hand narratively in the earlier books, she clearly wasn’t by the time Harry visits his parents’ graves in Chapter 16 of “Deathly Hallows,” titled “Godric’s Hollow.” On his parents’ tombstone he reads the quote “The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death,” while on another tombstone (that of Dumbledore’s mother and sister) he reads, “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

While Rowling said that “Hogwarts is a multifaith school,” these quotes, of course,

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A few days ago J.K. Rowling did an extensive online chat via Bloomsbury Publishing’s website … and she unloaded a whole heap of answers to questions about the Harry Potter saga in the aftermath of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. There is substantially more information that she gives here than she did in her interview with NBC last week. Absolutely must-reading for anyone who’s been reading and enjoying these books....

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WARNING: Do NOT click on the below link until AFTER you have read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. You have been warned! 🙂

In an interview for NBC, J.K. Rowling has revealed a LOT about what happens to many of the characters after the events of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Some of the details are wonderful, others are heartbreaking. I’m not going to post what she said here, you’re going to have to click the link to find out.

Thanks to Phillip Arthur for the heads-up!...

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Here’s the big report – that had to wait until my brain recovered from reading the thing – on the party two nights ago at Border’s bookstore on High Point Road in Greensboro for the midnight release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (and here’s my review in case you wanna read my thoughts on the book). This is the same place that we were at two years ago for the Half-Blood Prince release.

Here’s the exterior of the store. It’s probably my favorite bookstore in Greensboro, if for no other reason than because I’ve come to know a lot of good people who work there.


Without a doubt, there were more people waiting inside Border’s this time than there were two years ago. And it seemed that the crowd only grew exponentially as midnight approached.

Here he is: the infamous Brian aka Darth Larry, who ...

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(NOTE: This review does not contain spoilers. Feel free to read without risk of having something revealed to you that you don’t want to know about yet if you haven’t read the Harry Potter books … even though you should read them at some point 🙂

The best magic is when the trick is done right in front of you, in plain sight where you can see everything, and still your mouth hangs open in utter amazement at trying to figure out “how did they do that?”.

For the past seven years, ever since I first bought and read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, I’ve watched J.K. Rowling spin and weave her wonderful tale. She has made me look forward to each succeeding book with a wide-eyed wonder about what was going to happen next, where was this going. Always with the barest hint of mis-direction or ...

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It took almost exactly 24 hours, from the time that we bought our copy, to finish reading it. As I’ve said in the last few posts, I wanted to take my time reading it, and let this experience linger and be drawn out and enjoyed as much as it possibly could be, because this really is the very last time that I will get to read a Harry Potter book without having any way of knowing what to expect as the next page is turned.

For the first time in my life, ever, my eyes were full of tears after reading the final words of a book.

That wasn’t the only time either that it happened while reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, either.

Best experience I’ve had reading a book since … maybe ever. It’s going to take quite awhile for this to fully sink in.

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Words fail.

The end of this chapter – Chapter 24 – made me have to step away from the book and take a break for about a half-hour. It literally made my brain hurt to read something that horrific.

Something like this is perhaps the last thing that I would have ever expected to read in a children’s novel.

That scene was …

Like I said, words fail.

Still taking it nice and easy so that I can savor every moment of reading this. And so far, I can definitely say that it’s been a very long time that a book has affected me like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. And it’s still far from over.

Many more thoughts about it later. I just wanted to hit the blog and chronicle my stunned disbelief at what I just read in this book. And even this probably won’t be ...

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