I read the first four or five Harry Potter book, mostly for work purposes – I wrote about the series a couple of times, and since the issue was on the front burner of the religion – pop culture stove for a cuople of years, I needed to keep up.
But it’s not exactly in my consciousness in the same way now, even though Katie did get her copy (not at midnight, though), and proceeded to read it in about 7 hours. (She, unlike many, didn’t re-read the first 6 again before this release, but reading the last one (which she loved) moved her to go back now and re-read, to see how the puzzle pieces all fit together in hindsight. I went up to her room last night and she was half-way through the first one, a volume which looked like a Gideon Bible in comparison to the last few tomes.)
So…do you have any Harry Potter stories? If you read the latest, what did you think? What did your offspring think? I’ve read here and there that there are, indeed, Christian allusions – to Matthew Matthew 6:21, for example. Were John Granger’s predictions correct?
And the epilogue…some readers think the epilogue is lame. I wondered if was in part an attempt to head off at least some potential fan fiction at the pass…
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