Done!

I have just finished listening to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, meaning I have joined the ranks of pretty much everyone and finished the Harry Potter series.  I have to say that Harry Potter is a jerk.  I mean the kid, Harry Potter.  But I guess that means that he is a "real" character.  He acts like real people do.  But man, he is just such a jerk.  I guess I always thought that he was some kind of sweet nerd who did well and made nerds, like me, though I am not smart enough to be a real nerd,  feel good!  But no, he actually is a mean little dude.  I found this and I thought it was very funny!
In any case, my favorite character in the series is Snape, I think!  Maybe. Maybe Luna.  I am not sure!  Either way, I am glad I spent time with the magical world of HP!

SPOILERS (maybe...but since I am the last person to read this series, I am sure it won't spoil anything for anyone!)

Still, still, still  I have said in Snape.  Maybe it is just because I think that Harry Potter's dad sounds more and more like a "cool-kid" bully.  You know, he and Harry's godfather, being all cool and mean to Snape.  Of course, that doesn't mean that Snape is good.  That the bullying he endured didn't help to turn his heart to stone and get him all totally into being a mean dude.  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has a really gross/good cover.  I mean look at that cover, is that the best sick-green you have ever seen?

Now I am Getting Sad

Having finished The Order of the Phoenix, the fifth of seven HP books, I am getting sad to know that I am almost at the end of the HP series.  I can't believe it!  If Goblet of Fire was the book in which the series took a darker turn, OOTP is proof that it ain't going back into happy and light wizard world fun any time soon.   Dolores Umbridge is one rotten broad!  I can see now why people have told me that I would enjoy the audio books.  I can't imagine not hearing her fake cough the way that Jim Dale does it!

And I keep reading!

Now I have finished Goblet of Fire!  Had you asked me if I would ever read the first Harry Potter I would have told you probably not.  Had you asked me if I would make it as far as GOF I would have said NO WAY!

BUT I LOVE THEM!  They are super fantastic!  I really think that this is going to be a popular series.  I think it is going to catch on.  There might even be movies some day.  Who knows!  I can even see Universal Studios doing something

I Stand Corrected

All of those years I bashed Harry Potter.  That was before I read them.  I thought I would just listen to one.  And now I have the fourth one on hold.  This is my favorite one so far.  I just liked it so much!  I got the whole "prisoner of Azkaban" part of it and I love the characters.  Just great!  I think this Harry Potter thing is going to catch on.

Another!

Ever since a young patron told me that although the second HP book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was longer than the first, I wouldn't notice it and it was very good, I felt like I had to read it.  And I am glad I did.  I enjoyed it!  The story itself made more sense, so it was different from the whole "sorcerer's stone" thing that I didn't really get into in the first one.  In this one, I could get into the plot as well as enjoy the details of a magic life and school.  It still wasn't super WOW but heck, I think I will go for the third one, too!

It wasn't bad!

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone may be on to something.  I think there is a sequel.  It might be a hit.
Yes, I have finally read HPATSS.
It was good.  I mean, it was very good.  It was a 4 of 5 for me.  It didn't wow me.  The Quidditch thing was WAY too long.  And the whole "sorcerer's stone" part of it was not too exciting.  But the whole set up and the banter of the characters, that was cool.  I can really see why people would like it.  And I am going to read the second one!