You Want to Know Who Dies in Deathly Hallows?
You want to know what makes me crazy?
When some ten-year-old kid tries to tell me what happens in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Here's the thing... it's not about what happens. It's about how it happens. It's about how the book is written and how well the author does her job of telling the truth. It's about how well she's able to make a real world. It's about a million things, but it absolutely isn't about what actually happens in Deathly Hallows.
And you know what? If it is about what happens, then the author has failed. Utterly. And I have a feeling Ms. Rowling knows that. And at times, she's put a lot of work into making it not be about what happens. At other times, not so much.
I'm going to finish this book and keep an open mind and try to consider it a work of literature, a work of fiction, a work of fantasy, a work of work, and then I'm going to come back and say, "what do we read next?"
We just got three Charlie Bone books. So I think that pretty much answers that question, doesn't it?
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