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...Harry Potter has a lot on his to-do list. There's all those Horcruxes to find, a bunch of Deathly Hallows to pick up (you'll find out), and he's supposed to become a man, and get the girl, and, yeah, he should probably slay Voldemort at some point too. But in a lot of ways Harry's story ended with the second-to-last book of the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince...
...Half-Blood Prince, when Hermione turns up yet another clue, Harry thinks: "He did not feel the way he had so often felt before, excited, curious, burning to get to the bottom of a mystery." That sparkly wonderment is gone. As the curtain rises on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Scholastic; 759 pages), all Harry's parents and parent-figures - Sirius and Dumbledore - are dead. He's quit school, and he's got a job to do, picking up the shards of Voldemort's shattered soul. Any soft adult buffer between him and the world has been stripped away...
...tension and throttling the pace up and down, and it's also a precious gift to the reader: we have plenty of time to bask in, and say goodbye to, the principals' three-sided chemistry, which sparkles in the deepening martial gloom. This is the saddest of the Harry Potter books, but it's also the funniest...
Owen C. Barron ‘10 may best embodies Tatar’s idea of a “bifocal” reader. He said he was openly skeptical of Rowling’s writing style, employing the ultimate Potter put-downs: “She can’t write like Tolkien.” But still, he’s hooked...
Regardless of what Bloom and Safire might think about it, “Harry Potter” is a phenomenon. In the ten years since “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone debuted” to such widespread acclaim in the UK, the books have been translated into 67 languages, broken printing and sales records with each successive installment, and inspired everything from academic theories to tabloid scandals. Even Harvard Square will join in celebrating the culmination of the series by transforming itself into “Hogwarts Square” through midnight tonight...