Mike Munhall

I finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows while in British Columbia last week. (I’m working on a draft for that post.) Overall, I really liked it and I think the series ended just as it should have.

At the end of the last HP, I learned of a theory from Zablanc that Harry was the seventh horcrux. I thought that idea was brilliant and it turned out to be correct. We also learned at some point before HP7 was released that “someone dies.” My two (albeit minor) disappointments in the Deathly Hallows come from these two pieces of the plot.

I wish that the horcrux idea had been introduced earlier rather than later in the story. I was on pins and needles for months before Deathly Hallows was released wondering how Harry would deal with being the last and most crucial horcrux (assuming, of course, that it were true). I could only imagine how much more fun the book would have been to read if more of the plot was centered around that idea.

My other disappointment (again, very minor) was that it felt sort of “cheap” that Harry was the one to die in this book, but was able to come back. Not that I’m disappointed that he lived, but it just felt too easy.

It’s been a long time since this slow reader has been able to plow through half of a 750+ page book in two days. The second half of the book really fun. Just like when I finished the Dark Tower series, I am having a hard time deciding what to read next that will stack up to the book that I just finished.

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