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It’s raining again. The Sun’s been invisible for 2 days now, and the air has not been without drizzle for about as long. What a way to spend a weekend, trapped inside the house, watching the sky heavy with water, listening to the angry wind batter the trees outside.

Luckily we were prepared: I’ve been dipping in and out of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for a couple of weeks, managing to make very little progress at all. I has almost quit reading it, seeing how by the time I picked it up I had forgotten where the action had stopped the previous time. Yestrday, raining outside, I picked it up and persevered until there was no more of it. Managed to stop just to speak on the phone a time or two and eat my lunch.

So, was it worth it? It’s certainly an entertaining story. It’s written to appeal to a large cross-section of the population and it manages to do so well enough. There are too many similarities in character, situation and accessories between this final book and The Lord of the Rings, and that is distracting, as one often stops to consider whether the similarity is intended or fortuitous, breaking any illusion of immersion. All in all not quite a waste of time, but still one of the worse titles in my bookshelf.

Just one more thing: Harry does not die. Dumbledore doesn’t come back. And after years of non-stop adventure, the friends don’t succumb to the worst of all ills -routine- so 19 years later they live happily ever after…

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Posted on August 19th, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
Filed under: Weekend

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