The Requisite Harry Potter Post (Part 3)
As I mentioned at the end of Part 2, this will most likely be a short post. However, I happy to inform that there will still be some vaguely interesting info here (in my opinion).
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a scant five hours and twenty minutes away (this due to the fact that I am currently with my family in a rural town in western Wyoming. If I had stayed at home in the ATL I would have the book two hours sooner.) In any case, since Part 2 I have reserved my copy at the local bookstore, which apparently earned me a 20%. This is the most frustrating thing, because Barnes & Noble (which, this being a rural town in western Wyoming, is not present. Forgive the fragment. Likewise, Borders and other notable bookstores are conspicuously absent) is giving members a generous 40% that gets the book down to a mere $18 and something. I’ll be paying nearly $30. Still, it’s either that or wait, and, shallow, spoiled, impatient, and extravagant as it may seem, I am going to get that book tonight. The local store is, however, a convenient walk from our hotel and will be having a party. I have mixed emotions about this. I really have no interest in go to said party, especially when I have no one to go with and will be surrounded by children who will be up well past their bedtimes at that point. In the other corner (I am trying to find different ways of saying “On the other hand”) is the fact that I have yet to obtain my copy of a Harry Potter book at midnight when it is being released and this is my last chance. The party starts at 10, but I’ll probably show up at 11:15 or so. Whatever.
Anyway, on to the real subject of this post. For the longest time, I was sure that when the series ended, Harry would become the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts. It made sense. Hogwarts could never keep a DADA teacher and Harry was great at it. But now I’m not so sure. Ever since the fifth book, it became too obvious that Harry could become a teacher. It’s still a possibility, but I hate to think that Rowling would be so obvious. Other than that, I’m sure that Harry will survive, as will Ron and Hermione. The biggest question for me is how Harry can hunt down approximately 5 Horcruxes when he has essentially no idea where any of them are. J.K. practically dropped an entire new plotline on us at the very end of the series! I read one interesting theory online, however, that posited that we have already encountered I Hocrux in each book of the series. Another suggested that Harry himself might somehow, through his connection to Voldemort, be one of the Horcruxes himself. Of course, that would mean that Harry would have to die just to kill Voldemort, which I still don’t think will happen. This is a children’s series after all. I’m not sure the main protagonist is allowed to die in a children’s series.
That’s all I can think of to say. I don’t have much in the way of predictions. Lots of thoughts on the series on the whole but those will have to wait until Part 4, after I’ve read the last book. I have a busy and slightly dirty weekend ahead, and since I don’t want to nasty up my copy of the book, I may have to put off reading it until the ride home, which will begin on Sunday night.
Oh look, only 5 hours and 9 minutes to go…
To Be Continued
