Reading.
I've been on a bit of a hiatus from recreational reading, but I am almost halfway through the last Harry Potter book, HP7 - Deathly Hallows. One thing I've noticed about the series overall is that the characters become richer as Harry's understanding of them becomes deeper. The younger Harry was quick to draw such inferences as, "this person treated me badly, therefore he/she must be evil"; now, at seventeen, Harry is more circumspect in his assessment of heroes and villains. All the men he has seen as father figures - Sirius Black, Dumbledore, and of course his actual father, James Potter - have come into focus as noble but imperfect flesh-and-blood men. And conversely, some of the less likeable characters (Kreacher, for example) have become less distasteful as we've gotten to know them better. And one character - an individual whose soul Harry literally saved - becomes an unlikely friend.
It's not an overtly religious story in the conventional sense, but I feel like there is an overall theme of redemption.
I'll be reading eagerly to learn how it all plays out.
It's not an overtly religious story in the conventional sense, but I feel like there is an overall theme of redemption.
I'll be reading eagerly to learn how it all plays out.