BOOK ONE! DONE! That rhyme was completely necessary. Rereading the first book was such a delight. As with rereading any book I was a little afraid that it wouldn't be as good as I remembered it, but it was fantastic. Dare I say, better than I remembered.I have fallen in love with the characters and story all over again and it is quite a wonderful feeling. Rowling's writing is just so good,especially for a book aimed at children. Her writing is not super complex, but at the same time it is not condescending which is very refreshing for children's/young adult literature.
I have become so well acquainted with the movies that I had forgotten the differences between the two. I think that overall the film is a great adaptation of this book as films cannot portray every detail of the book they are based on or the film would be some twenty hours long and unbearably boring at times. I think that the films are wonderful and add a great element to the Harry Potter universe.
Back to the book...rereading it has given me some insight on the characters that I didn't have before and also questions about these characters. I think that despite what some would say, none of the characters in the Harry Potter universe are purely good or purely evil. Rowling does a great job at making it seem so at a surface level, but when looking past this facade the characters are a lot more complex. My main concern is Albus Dumbledore. I have heard many people say that Dumbledore is bad because he is just using Harry as a sacrifice and that he has no real compassion towards Harry or care about Harry's safety. I think that Dumbledore is much more human than we give him credit for. We as readers would love for him to be this godly character, omnipotent without imperfection, but he isn't. He is flawed. While Dumbledore is very aware, giving Harry the invisibility cloak, watching him at the mirror of Erised, he is also flawed, flying to the Ministry of Magic when he should be at the school. I shall continue this rant later as I continue the books and figure out more about Dumbledore's character.
I do really enjoy spending so much time in the Harry Potter universe, it seems that it is on to Book Two. Allons-y!
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