Finally finished the whole thing. I can say without a doubt these books get tedious; especially Rowlings complete addiction to adverbs (he said snottily). But the story telling was good enough and some of her creations (horcruxes, hallows, the sorcerer's stone, the mirror of Erised, etc) are interesting enough to make it worth slugging on through. The value of love isn't shoved down your throat even though it is a huge player in resolving the story - commendable for a woman who otherwise sidles off into so much minutiae of teenaged life that it makes you scream "enough already" many times before you get to the end of the books. And an ending that ends and ends properly...yeah that is refreshing and took more skill I think than anything else she did before the last 4-5 chapters of her 7 volume tree killing escapade.
I read this because so many people coming into their twenties read all these stories and I wanted to see if there were concepts I could use to communicate the gospel. I still think The Lord of the Rings trilogy is in a league of its own for gospel imagery and story telling, but there is a lot here in the Harry Potter books, and it is probably more accessible to younger people who only have the cut down (cheap) movie versions of LOTR.
Glad I read them. Glad I'm done.
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