| Just. Finished it. |
[23 Jul 2007|12:44am] |
So I just emerged from my den and realized how many...er...responsibilities I have shirked while engulfing myself in harry potter for the past week, particularly today. I forgot to call people and charge my cell phone and I have to give lessons tomorrow for which I have not prepared. BUT DOODZ it was worth it!!
Book. was. crazy. That's all that can be said to it.
I'm going to go in the record with what I PREDICTED. I'm not, of course, going to say what was true and what was not, but yes, some things were right and some were wrong:
-Hagrid would die
-A Weasley would die
-None of the "trio" would die
-Snape would be good
-Neville would do something spectacular
-Harry would return to Hogwarts (sort of vague there)
-Voldemort would end up being Jesus (not a real prediction, but it did come out of my mouth once or twice)
-Voldemort would die
So I've never made more noise while reading any other book. Most of it were exclamations of "AAH!" or "WHAT!" resulting in me having to repeat a few paragraphs of reading. I cried once, fo realz, and laughed a billion times.
I think what J.K. Rowling has mastered spectacularly is the ability to accurately capture the human heart. Every emotion in this book, felt by (mostly) everybody, is so real, and the characters so faceted, that they feel, well, like they're fo realz too. This book out of all really demonstrates it the best, and I felt an overwhelming amount of empathy for so many characters in such a range of emotion. I'm exhausted.
She (Rowling) is also a genius storyteller. It's just like, WOW. That is all.
I'm very sleepy and I have a buttload of stuff to do tomorrow. I apologize to everyone for virtually ignoring them the past week. Kevin, I never responded to your email (but did laugh/get scared). Ryan, I never told you I would be reading through the simple life tonight. And I never went bowling. AAHH hhd ashdslajfkljfkdsjfd faflds I need to go to sleep.
Okay I lied, I'm back under an edit. I feel like everyone in the world finished before me, BUT I had to share with Lenny. Anyway, I forgot to mention how absolutely scary I thought the book was. Erika said it was reminiscent of the holocaust, and I agree. Also, 90% of my nightmares, of which I complain all the time, involve exactly what was happening in the book, particularly in the beginning. Being in hiding, being on the run, being caught. It connected me to it in some weird way.
The dark mark is still faintly on my arm! I took a picture of it, and my camera batteries immediately died. It was frighteningly funny.
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