Tuesday, November 4, 2008

chapters 3-6 sixth blog post


Surprises.
The book is getting better and better from surprising events, attacks and battles to tragic deaths. This book is marvelous, full of suspension and conclusions from the past books. One of the biggest events that was tragic was Mad-Eye's death. This never occurred to me and surprisingly enough, he just dies and he was a leader and a role-model to the Order and to Harry. I think I understand Harry's feelings and emotions from just reading the book, because he was so many things on his shoulders right now and many people are suffering because of him. Harry is sad and very emotional to those who tried to sacrifice their lives just for him. Voldemort's characteristics were mentioned in this chapter, that he could fly and that the Death Eaters have a great bond between Voldemort and that they call forth each other in an instant. The Death Eaters were expecting Harry to leave at that specific night and the Order wasn't fully prepared in some cases, or dramatic irony.
Another part that I'm impressed with was the discussion of the Horcrux taken between Harry, Hermione and Ron. They wonder about where the Horcruxes might be and how they can be destroyed. The author provides information by putting details which connect to the past book(s) of the Harry Potter series. For example, Hermione taking books from Dumbledore's office the year before (or the previous book 6), and Rowling wrote that to provide information to the readers about the Horcruxes. This book is just fantastic, events after events the story becomes better and better with new treats that the author provides to the readers.

Monday, November 3, 2008

chapters1-3. 5th post


Intro.
This book is full of suspense form the beginning of the book. The first chapter shows us what Voldemort and the Death Eaters are planning to do to Harry. As I was reading through the first chapter I started asking questions such as what will Harry and the Order do to get past Voldemort? Do Harry realize what he is really up against? I hope to find some answers by reading further on into the book. Dramatic Irony is
The next sections mostly tells the readers about the tragedy and the crowd reactions of the Magic World after Dumbledore's death. I got to experience more of Dumbledore's life from head to toe, beyond Harry's. Dumbledore's life was not mentioned in the previous 6 books, so I plan to find more about it later on.
The Dursley's leaving! Something that was unexpected though Harry isn't happy or super excited that the Dursleys were leaving. The Dursleys had feelings too just like Harry and Dudley didn't wanted to leave without him, and he was really thankful for Harry. Harry accepted that warmly and I felt sad that the Dursleys were going away. I think Rowling did a good job changing the reader's emotions and really emphasizing that 'goodbye' moment.