Seems like J.K. Rowling got carried away!

Finally after much waiting and longing, the last in the series, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows hit the market, where thousands of Harry Potter fans rushed to get their copy of the last book. The kids were anxious to know how the famous series was going to end. There was a lot of fuss on how the story would reach its finish- would Harry Potter die or would Voldemort, the Dark Wizard kill him.

For those of you, who do not know who or what Harry Potter is about, it’s a magical and fantasy story about a boy who learns on his 11th birthday that he is a wizard and has been accepted in the Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardy, that is to say a new world opens for a boy who has been harassed by his aunt and uncle and his cousin who was given the responsibility of raising him under their roof, as a part of the family. Harry Potter deals with magic, dragons, wands and brooms, and to top it all with a cherry, the dark wizard is after the boy who lives a killing curse which was of course meant for him to be killed, in doing so his mother sacrificed herself and laid her protection around her little boy, the protection of love which repelled the Lord Voldemort from harming him.

That’s with the story, lets jump to the reactions of the readers who reached the ending, these are the words that can be described how the readers felt, disappointed, let down, unhappy, confused, irritated, and the list goes on and on and on. Take it from the fan from the Harry Potter, the whole essence of the story was lost, there were so many twists and turns and unanswered questions from the previous books that it was assumed not assumed but expected to have the answers in the last book. The result? More fresh questions rounded up on the corner with raised eye brows, what the hell did just happen to the story? It totally flipped over, nothing made sense, Harry all along had been protected by his friends and those people who liked him and felt for him, it seemed only fair that at the end he was to die along in killing Lord Voldemort. But that was not all- he lives a happily ever after?!!!

The book unfolds the story of the prophecy which was made about Harry or the choosen one and Lord Voldemort, that neither lives while the other survives. Prophecy meant that neither would live while the other would survive, simple words one of them had to die to let the other die, which should have been as it is, Harry dying and sacrificing himself in order to erase and wipe out the Dark Lord once and for all. But ironically it does not happen.

Some of the readers might think that his character has suffered a lot, yes in a lot of ways he has, but that did not meant there had to be a happily ever after, Rowling should have made Harry’s character strong enough to give away his life for all the lives Voldemort took, that seems reasonable and makes more sense to the story- this would have made the story look more real and meaningful, but sadly that was not all, he succeeds in killing Voldemort and moves on to live his happy life, now that looks like a story out of a fairy tale, let’s rewind and check again, the whole story is based on fantasy which almost seems real to the reader who reads and indulges into it, but fantasy is not always a happy ever after, ever afters are fairy tales, there’s a slight distinction in between the two. Fantasy can be made a little harsh in order to give it a touch of reality and in Harry Potter, the character should have sacrificed himself in killing the Dark Wizard, which was not it, the story ended on such a bad note that the whole essence, the whole point of the whole series was lost and hence life isn’t and shouldn’t always be told as a happily ever after but fantasy can have a touch of reality in it, resulting in more sense and the more “real” side to the story.

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