Harry Potter Series - Joanne K. Rowling (reviews)
Hello, my dear readers,
I sat down again today to do my favorite review, which I've somehow grown to love now, haven't I? ☺
Today it's going to be the series again. But this time, together, we'll take a small step into the magical world, or rather, just through the pages that can sometimes make a person happier than anything else.
For me, the book always scores more than the movie, although in this case it's the tip top. The book and then the movie.
Both the book world and the movie world of Harry Potter have always meant a lot to me and still do. I guess you could say I grew up on it.
Every child knows the world of magic and if not from books, at least from screens and I was no exception.
I didn't get to the book series until later, but when I first read it, it was a ride I'll never forget.
I was immediately experiencing everything with Harry, I was able to put myself in his shoes. It was like I was right next to him.
Well, I'm rambling here, but I still haven't told you what the story is and what the books are actually about.
Well, let's have a look, shall we? ☺
The whole book saga is about a boy who hasn't had a bed of roses since he was a little boy. He's forced to grow up with relatives who don't have an ounce of family love for him.
You could say it's the other way around. They hate him to the core and the boy has no idea why at first, but only until he finds out he's a magician.
At the same time, he learns the cruel and real truth about his parents' deaths and much more. For example, that the lightning-shaped scar on his forehead is not from a simple accident, as he was told, but that he is the only survivor of a deadly curse that was placed on him by pure evil, and that his parents died to protect him.
Harry meets his two best friends, Hermione and Ron, at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. They become an inseparable trio, who not only experience all sorts of travails and adventures, but also have to defeat an evil with one name and one snake face in each episode.
Still, I like the books and they have everything they are supposed to have - readability, suspense, pain and loss. I'm not talking about how well written the books are, but I still have to...
I give this series only 4.5 stars.
Why, you ask? I'll explain in a minute.
The reason is that even though I love the plot and so far no other fantasy book has topped it. It bothers me a little that in the story the author killed off my favorite character and that is none other than Potions Professor Severus Snape. As an amateur author I can understand that, but as a reader not at all.
If I could ask the writer one question right now, it would be this:
Why didn't you bring Harry and Severus closer together?
Yes I know they made up a bit when Severus was dying, but you still could have given them more space to get to know each other better and maybe discover they had a lot in common.
Well, that's all for today...
What question would you ask your favourite authors? And what kind of story would it be?
