After the release of the final movie in July, I decided to re-read all of the Harry Potter books, just like I'm sure everyone else did. I wanted to read them close together which was something that I hadn't done yet. I also hadn't gotten a chance to re-read The Deathly Hallows. These are books, after all, that you seem to take more from the second time around. However, the final volume got pushed to the wayside for a while. It was just too large for me to read it last year. If I had, I wouldn't have made the 100 book goal.
I'm glad that I finally got around to it.
I liked it a lot better this time around. When I first read DH, I felt like the first half of the book was pretty aimless. It dragged on and on and on. It consisted mostly of the boring daily "apparate somewhere random and camp" routine. This time through it didn't feel like it was dragging so much. I started to think about Harry gathering his own trinkets close to him and I was interested in the Dumbledore store too. There may not have been a lot of action but there was a lot to think about. Anyway, the last part more than makes up for it.
It's funny, really. I can tell you exactly what parts brought me to tears the first time I read it and this time it was completely different. Have I changed or do I just have a different outlook now that I know how it ends?
All in all, I would say that I am happy with Rowling's conclusion. I even got a little teary eyed in the last little epilogue chapter. There was a way that things HAD to happen and I think that Rowling managed to dance around that pretty well. I'm glad I made the time to go back to this book.
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