The End.

[jonnysardonic]

So. There you go. I have read the final installment of the Harry Potter saga. I am filled with conflicting emotions. Harry has been a constant companion since I began bookselling around the time that HP & the Philosopher's Stone was released. I have seen the face of children's bookselling transformed beyond recognition, from a largely moribund

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[dyfferent]

Agreed on all points. I'm not one who got truly immersed in it, used HP icons as shorthand for my identity, listened to "wizard rock," wrote fanfic. But nonetheless, it was important. What started off as a truly derivative series gained its own weird reality, perhaps because of the level of mundane detail it invoked. When you read one of them, for awhile the world had a strange shimmer to it afterwards, a sort of doubling, an echo of the magical world that might have been.

I have read a shitload of fantasy in my time and this is the only series that had such a powerful effect, even though, consciously, I knew the books themselves weren't particularly great. Of themselves, at least.

In any case, yeah. Coming to the end feels wrong and hollow, and I have unanswered questions. I hope Ms Rowling does write more books in that universe, even if they're not HP ones. Who knows? Perhaps for charity etc. But it won't be the same/

[jonnysardonic]

There was "wizard rock"?

[dyfferent]

Yes. I only heard about it yesterday, but apparently it's been going on for five years or so. The first band was Harry and the Potters. /wince

[jonnysardonic]

*realizes that he will now have to seek it out to experience the horror firsthand*

[ilovedragons]

School's out for the last time. Mr. Potter, I raise my hat to you.

Oh, don't make me cry again... :(
I closed the book thinking, what the hell kind of ending is that? To much is left unsaid. Ah well. There's always fanfiction. :)

[anik]

Excellently put.

I became less attached to the main character as the series progressed, but the various fates of the other characters and the conclusion of the Potter saga as a whole has left me feeling a bit at loose ends.

I think this was why I had a hard time getting excited about this book -- I knew once it came and went, that would be it, and all that gleeful anticipation would be no more.

[lucybond]

I recommend dropping out of school at Xmas.

I climbed out of a window, waving to my (mostly awful) companions & just never came back after the holidays.

Admittedly, it leaves me unable to spell certain big words, & slightly less emotionally-damaged than I could have been, given another six months or so...