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OFF THE SHELF - Harry’s dead?
By LS Yuri Ramsey
Volume 50, No. 14, August 09, 2007 |
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| FINAL CHAPTER: All questions answered in the final Harry Potter book. |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling
4.7/5 stars
Many of the questions Potter fans have had are successfully answered in Deathly Hallows – and it wraps up the series well.
But if you want the answer to the question in everyone’s mind of whether or not Harry lives or dies… I won’t say, you will just have to read the book.
A main theme that Rowling points out is that there is not absolute good or evil in people, everyone has a little darkness in them, but it’s the choices made by people that finally matter.
Harry, who overcomes his darker side with compassion and selflessness, contrasts with the selfish, arrogant and cruel Voldemort. Even Dumbledore, who seemed the personification of all that is good, is discovered to have a darker side.
Deathly Hallows is very fast paced. Harry’s desperate search to discover and destroy the remaining Horcruxes (receptacles in which a Dark wizard has hidden a fragment of his soul to attain immortality) before Voldemort finds out what he is doing is scintillating.
The inevitable final confrontation between Harry and Lord Voldermort is also suitably tense and unpredictable. Despite the fast pacing it does read very well.
Emphasising the darker tones of the later books, Deathly Hallows is by far the darkest, and has in it a large number of deaths. It takes Harry away from his childhood adventures within Hogwarts into the real, sometimes cruel, world of adulthood.
It is my favourite of the seven books and for those that have not read Harry Potter, now would be the ideal time to start from the beginning and read straight through to the end. Potter-mad or new to the series, I don’t think anyone would be disappointed with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Finite incantatem! |
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