Blood Boil

The fifth book makes me mad. The ironic thing is that I usually don't get angry quickly. I get insulted quickly, but not mad. Now, after reading Harry Potter, I just want to smash peoples heads. I am not just referring to the detested characters in the book, but to real life people. Perhaps this anger was always there, but now I can tell it has come to the surface, and I need to deal with my rage. I get rage when people boss me around and when people are greedy.


Even though it sounds like I'm blaming all this hatred on the books, it's more like I'm glad I've located the feeling and now I'll just have to learn how to deal with it. See, since forever I was never prone to getting angry, either I would get scared and intimidated, or feel nothing. It was as if I didn't value myself enough to be able to get angry. So this may sound strange, but I'm glad I can be angry now. Every emotion has it's value. 

This Makes Me Angry

So after reading the Goblet of Fire, in my head I imagined Harry leading the wizards and teaching them how to defeat Voldemort. I imagined that he had advisers and that they were all united, but no he isn't even allowed apart of the Order of Pheonix, which is an underground group working against Voltermort. When Harry asks his friends about what's happening all they tell him is-- "Dumbledore made us promise not to tell you (Harry) anything."-Hermione.

It makes me wanna pull my hair out!!! I hate Dumbledore. He knows Harry is going to have to die soon. He knows that Voldermort is getting stronger and he knows Harry is the only one that has survived facing Voldemort. It makes me so mad. When Serius is trying to tell Harry about what is happening, Mrs. Wesley butts in and says, "He's too young." Blah blah blah. I think I'm gonna explode in anger. Dude why does Harry's life have to be so darn difficult. 


Oh and I hate the ministry even more. Either their on Voldermorts side or their on Harry's side. And they are clearly not on Harry's side!!! Meaning their the bad guys!! 


I know this book is just going to get me more angry because I haven't even got to the part where Mrs. Pink cat loving lady from the ministry comes and ruins everyone's lives. I think she is my least favorite character. So I'll have more to vent about her.


I think part of the reason why I hate all this. "Your too young, you can't do anything." Nonsense is because I had to deal with is in my own life. 

How the Goblet of Fire Should Have Ended

There I am reading the end of the Goblet of Fire. Harry has just woken up from drinking a sleeping drought, and there is yelling because the minister of Magic killed one of the culprits, who would have given evidence about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Then this minister is in disbelief about Voldemort coming back. I stopped. What? He doesn't even believe? Dumbledore persuade him!

And then at that moment I wanted to change the story. I would have Harry Potter roll himself out of bed. Everyone turns their head, and go silent waiting for him to speak. He walks up to the unbelieving minister and says, "I have something to show you." He then turns to Dumbledore and says, "Could I use your memory well."

Dumbledore says, "Well it's kinda complicated. How about we use some of your winnings and we can build your own?"

So then Harry Potter takes out all his memories he has of Voldemort and the vivid encounter at the graveyard where he sees all the deatheatters. He shows anyone who wants to see what happened. It helps him get the story across without having to go through the painful memory time and time again and now people will have 'lived' through the event themselves.

The outcome is that the wizards are united in getting rid of Voldemort and the deatheatters. 

Fame Hater

I've noticed, Harry loathes getting attention and he could careless for money. That would be fine if he was a homeless, but in his situation everyone who meets him knows who he is. He barely ever has to introduce himself, and actually likes to lie about who he is. 


Just because Harry doesn't want to be famous or wealthy that doesn't mean others don't either. His childhood enemy, Draco Malfoy, hates Harry because he wishes he as popular as Harry is. He makes fun of the newspaper headlines and his friends and anything that has to do with Potter.


Ron's biggest wish is to be wealthy and complains how horrid it is to be poor. When Harry buys things from him he feels guilty and wants to be able to pay him back. It's as if Harry's 'perfect' life isn't good enough for him, and if only he could give it away he would be happy.  

That's a Big One

I finally got the fourth book. It is huge! I'm a bit over a hundred pages through, but barely dented the 734 pages! I would be about half way if I were reading The Sorcerer's Stone. The funny thing about the jump in size in books was that it was not at all gradual. Book four is the same size as book one and three combined. It's as if the author suddenly remembered she wanted to fit her story into only seven books. 

Another thing that is different other that the book size is the content and normal make up of the book. The book is all of a sudden extremely detailed. So getting to the International Quidditch Cup took a long time, and then it took a long time for the game to begin. There are all sorts of people being introduced; important wizards and witches from the Ministry.

In the last three Harry Potter books it has been formatted very much the same. It starts with Harry at the Dursleys. His cousin is described as a pig and is given a big birthday party and than Harry Potter has a birthday that his Aunt and Uncle forget about but, he is always taken away on his birthday by a friend. This book started off as a dream and Harry Potter woke up with his scar hurting, I have a feeling this might become the new norm. And now he hasn't gotten to school in the first hundred pages, which I am guessing is also a new norm. 

Things that do stay the same are how much the Dursleys hate him, how his friends find a way to make a scene at his house and how Ginny still blushes every time she see Harry.
Reading the books may take more than two days now, but I am still just as excited to see what happens. 

Silence Before the Storm

The one good thing about reading the Harry Potter series after it's hayday, is the fact that I don't have to wait years to read the next book. However, getting the books from Amazon still seems to take forever. It takes about a week for the book to ship. I finish the book in two days and then have to wait another week for the next one to arrive. I don't like all the waiting, so I've decided to just order the rest of them at the same time. 

Yesterday my brother said, "I have something to tell you. I've decided I don't like Harry Potter." He went on to say that it makes dark magic seem like fun and that harry Potter was always getting into trouble, but always got praised for it in the end. I didn't say anything -- it would ruin the story. 

JK Rowling's Best One Yet!

 Intricately Complicated

The first two Harry Potter books had slightly lame plots. The Sorcerer's Stone was about a three headed dog blocking the secret tunnel guarding a rock that gives the owner wealth and longevity. Like it's cool, but the rock was destroyed in the end. Then the Chamber of Secretes was also this secret place under the castle, where Lord Voldemort and Harry fight again. Oh yeah and Harry wins, how shocking.


This one The Prisoner of Azakban was definatly mindbogglingly awesome. In that you didn't know what was going to happen until it happened. Part of this has to do with the fact that I watched the movies, but this book was so intricately complicated that I just didn't understand how everything worked. It was brilliant. The movie was great, but the book is better.


I love how Harry and Hermione go three hours into the past to save the Hippogriff and Serius Black. It is very interesting that no one knows what happened when everyone finds out that Serius Black escapes. But Snape is angry at Harry and knows he did it. This was the first time I was actually annoyed and upset with Snape. Ever since I saw the last Harry Potter movie I wanted to give Snape a great big hug. But after reading this book he's so icky. I know he doesn't understand that Serius Black really isn't a murder, but the way he wanted Serius to die was so heartless.