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!...
A little over 24 hours from now, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be released.
So here are my absolute final predictions for the Harry Potter saga before this concluding chapter of the series is published:
...– Harry will live.
– Hagrid will die.
– The fatal shot aimed at Voldemort will come from none other than Draco Malfoy, who reconciles with Harry just before passing away from wounds suffered in battle.
– Rufus Scrimgeour will be sacked …
– … and Arthur Weasley will become the new Minister of Magic.
– We will finally get to see Azkaban Prison.
– Norbert will return as a full-grown dragon
– Neville will finally confront Bellatrix Lestrange, upon which he goes into a fit of rage and kills Bellatrix with a savage assault of the Cruciatis curse.
– In a perfect world, Harry would hunt Dolores Umbridge down like a dog,
In the lead-up to the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows this Friday at midnight, Lisa and I started last night watching all of the Harry Potter movies, beginning with Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone. Tonight we spent over two hours watching Chamber of Secrets. And now, only now, is Lisa appreciating something really cool that I did for her five years ago!!
It was about two months before the wedding. She was doing her final exams and I was at Star Wars Celebration II in Indianapolis. I wanted to get her something really special from the trip and also something of a gift for her getting her master’s degree.
Well, Lisa and I sort of discovered the Harry Potter books at about the same time and Sorceror’s Stone was the last movie we saw in theaters before we got engaged. And one of ...
This is either a very clever statement, or I have crossed a terrible, terrible line …
The “Read a Harry Potter book for Jesus!” t-shirt. So what’s the story behind the inspiration for this latest bit of mischief? I’ll admit that part of it is because as a Christian, I don’t have a problem with the Harry Potter books. But also because it really hit me earlier today, while going through a certain portion of the book Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, that there is an amazing use of scripture toward the end of the book. It’s not directly quoting from the Bible, but it’s a wonderful depiction of the nature of God.
It’s toward the end of the next-to-last chapter of the book, “The Lost Prophecy”. I was finding so many Bible verses that reflect what Dumbledore is saying there, that I literally lost count ...
I don’t know if anyone has suggested this yet, but here goes…
We know that the body count is going to peg the needle in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, due out this coming Saturday. J.K. Rowling showed that she was playing for keeps in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire but the past two books especially have made it clear: nobody is safe.
The biggest question of all: Will Harry Potter be one of those who perish?
Theories abound. I’ve thought for awhile now about what might happen: Harry discovers that he himself is one of the Horcruxes, during the final battle he turns his own wand toward his chest and does the Avada Kedavera spell, killing himself and destroying the Horcrux… and then Ron and Hermione and everyone else attacks the now-mortal Voldemort. Now, for some reason, I’m not so sure if that’s what will ...
This has to be the biggest coup in the history of this blog. Yes, ladies and gentlemen it is true: this evening the absolute very last page of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was sent to The Knight Shift. This is it! This is how the entire saga ends for good. This is the most absolute toppest-top secret that J.K. Rowling has been sitting on for over ten years now.
If you DO NOT WANT TO BE SPOILED, you are advised to TURN BACK NOW!
I mean it!
You sure you want to know?
Okay, let it be on your own head. Don’t say that I didn’t warn you.
Here it is, the final page from the very last chapter of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows:
...“Is there anything you would like from the menu?” Rosmerta asked.
“Three bottles of butterbear and
A few minute ago, just 27-some hours since I finished re-reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, I arrived at the last page of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the penultimate installment of the entire saga (and once again, I find that the last 5 chapters of that book fly by fast!).
It was on the night of June 25th that I started re-reading ALL of the Harry Potter books in what was then just less than a month before the release of the seventh and final novel in the series: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It gets published everywhere at 12:01 a.m. next Saturday. Our copy is already pre-ordered and waiting for us.
And now, on July 14th, I’m ready for it. I think re-reading all the subsequent books made going through Half-Blood Prince much more enjoyable and worthwhile in preparation ...
A short while ago, and a few days after seeing the movie version, I finished reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. That’s now five Harry Potter novels out of the six released so far and I’m trying to read them all before the final chapter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, comes out next Saturday.
Ever since I first read this four years ago, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has been my favorite of the series and I found myself enjoying it even more this time. As well as catching things that seemed totally innocuous on the first reading or two but now seem to have major significance. Of course everyone by now knows about the locket that can’t be opened, that was found while cleaning up 12 Grimmauld Place. But I couldn’t help think about some other things too… like how ...
I haven’t struggled this hard with thoughts about a movie since writing my review of Peter Jackson’s King Kong.
It was good, but too much of the book was missing for me to be completely satisfied.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is my favorite book of them all in the series (so far). It’s also the one that I happen to be in the middle of reading as part of my quest to read all of the Harry Potter books before the release of the final one next Saturday. So maybe those things factored into how much I liked it. I’ve no doubt that if I had never read the Harry Potter books, I would have a whole different feeling about it’s movie adaptation.
Tonally, they got this movie right so far as how it captures the spirit of the book. Especially with how corrupt ...
And I’m not just saying that either because it’s author, Jenna Olwin, is such a dear friend of ours. I mean, if she had written crap, I would not be mentioning it here even though she is a wonderful person. But the fact of the matter is, Jenna is a very good writer and she doesn’t write crap, at all. That would be fully counter to her nature. She’s too much an inherently awesome authoress, because she writes well and she’s never failed to make me think about whatever the subject is in some new and fascinating way.
Well, for her contribution this time to Silhouette, the Christian blog that she collaborates on along with several others who are way out there on the upper-left corner of the Lower 48, Jenna writes about Harry Potter and Christianity. And the whole piece is just plain golden. Here’s a ...