Book #21 "Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling: "Dumbledore knew, as Voldemort knew, that Harry would not let anyone else die for him now that he had discovered it was in his power to stop it. The images of Fred, Lupin, and Tonks lying dead in the Great Hall forced their way back into his mind's eye, and for a moment he could hardly breathe: Death was impatient...." page 693.
So first thing that came to mind once I finished was that there was SO MUCH left out of the movie. It was actually kind of sad when you consider how much potential that book had to make amazing movies. Personally I now see that what we all got to see on the big screen was, in fact, more of a let down then anything else.
That is always something that has kind of majorly bothered me about authors and their books. Now correct me if I am wrong, but don't authors get a say in the screen plays that get picked to portray their book? I mean at least to some extent? If that is the case then why, unless you were not getting any better offers, would you ever even dream of considering a screen play that leaves out so many important facts/ details from the original story?
I mean don't get me wrong I know that it's not just the authors that get a say but part of me would still hope that their word counts for a little more then anyone else'.
Anyways!! Enough about that rant! on to the actually talking about the book...I really did enjoy it. As I said above there were a lot more facts/details that were not included in the film therefor, in reading this story it kind of summed up and tied up any lose ends that had been made/left when I had originally seen the movie.
Amazingly enough Harry's whole 'attidude' that he has had, that tends to drive me up the wall at times, throughout the whole of the 'Harry Potter' books sort of disappeared in this last book. Or maybe I was just so caught up in all the extra facts/details that I didn't notice it as much? One way or another it was nice regardless.
So as far as the next book goes I was thinking for #22 we would go with "Wicked" by Gregory Maguire. I've been wanting to see the play for forever but haven't gotten the chance so hopefully this will hold me over until then.
that's all for now,
Michaela Jane
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