J.K. Rowling controls all my emotions after July 21st…
Hi
Firstly this blog is incorrectly titled…it should be called ‘My Ron Weasley obsession….’ but I liked the other also. Let me explain, if you live under a rock in the desert, Harry Potter is a fictional wizard, created by Joanne Rowling, he attends a wizarding school in England, and he’s defeated a really evil wizard…once or twice. He’s also atrociously stupid. Tomorrow Harry Potter & the order of the phoenix is released at the cinema…this is the 5th book of the series, and ultimately the longest. Whilst I am very exicted about seeing this at 9.30am tomorrow, I am MUCH more excited about the release of the final Harry Potter book on July 21st (Harry Potter & the dreadful ending)…
I first noticed Harry Potter when my friend smacked me round the face with a copy after discovering I’d never read it. This didn’t really happen, but she did look extremely shocked, and I was worried she was going to pass out. It was during a discussion at school about the film they were making of it…by this point 4 of the books were already written, and whilst I’d briefly heard of them I’d assumed they were children’s books and so ignored them. How wrong I was!
I was lent the 4 books by my fanatical friend, and I read them quickly, shocked to discover I loved everything about them. The storylines are ok…I admit there are flaws. I mean, Voldemort only ever shows up at the end of the year, as though he’s coinciding with their exams to annoy Hermione for one. However, I’m invested more in the characters. I don’t care that all the mystery solving is always at the end of the book, because it leaves more time for hilarious banter throughout the book, especially when they attempt to do Divination homework. As I said, it’s the characters that keep me obsessed…my top 3 characters are Ron, Dumbledore & Lupin. As far as Harry is concerned, he’s probably somewhere down the bottom of the list of favourite characters, just before Goyle… this may come as sacrilige to some people, however I just don’t like him. He can be ok for about a minute, but he’s arrogant, stupid, and has serious hero-complex going on. The order of the phoenix is a particular sore point for me, because during this book he has a number of dreams of a place with lots of doors….a corridor of some kind, which is CLEARLY the ministry of magic! Every reader has guessed it in the first dream, but he has to then have 52 more to still not be able to work it out! Luckily there’s Hermione, who, whilst I originally hated her character, my liking of her correlates precisely with my disliking of Harry as the novels continue.
Ron is a character that quite simply is not flawed, along with Fred, George, Charlie & Mr. and Mrs. Weasley they make the books enjoyable!
A few weeks ago I was struggling to find enthusiasm for the final book. This is because the characters have to find the horcruxes where Voldemort has stored parts of his soul (I haven’t got round to re-reading this yet so I can’t quite remember the details – in fact, I’m still on the 3rd book, eeeeep!)…now, Hermione may be able to find them, but if they find them all super easily it will just be unrealistic…especially now they’re down a very major character. I’m not saying it because I know a ridiculous amount of people still don’t know who dies at the end of the 6th book…how they’ve managed to avoid it is anyone’s guess….
The death of this character bought many tears to my eyes…and thus, I have summised that J.K. Rowling does in fact control many people’s emotions…. I haven’t bothered to read the 6th book again since 2 years ago because of the ending in fact! But I shall read it before the 21st, so I actually know what’s going on….
Anyway, time for me to sign off and get on with reading the wonderous adventures of a smarmy idiot, his ok sidekick and the magical boy that is Ron…
I’ll attempt not to shout out tomorrow in the cinema ‘Harry use the magical mirror you idiot to save Sirius!’ It angers me he ‘forgot’ about it…………
Oh and Snape deserves to die. Thanyou, and yes, I know I’m scarily obsessed…
