Even old new york was once new amsterdam

why'd they change it, i cant say, guess people liked it better that way! oh take me back to constantinople! actually, NO, i do not want to go to istanbul. as im sure you already know, the house democrats are pushing a bill that would label the armenian slayings in turkey during WWI as a "genocide" and hence have greatly offended the turkish government over this and i say...

what the hell is wrong with you nancy pelosi?!?? what the hell is wrong with all those democrats up on capital hill?!?!!? this house resolution will DESTROY any relations we have with turkey and they dont care about this. you should care about this. turkey is a great ally of ours, and it occupies a unique position. part of it is in europe and the other part is in asia, and because of this they want to join the EU. it was the crossroads of the ancient world dating back to Emperor Justinian of Byzantium until finally in 1453 when the ottomans took the city and ended western influence in it. this is when turkey became predominantly muslim.

turkey is our supply line in the iraq war, but even more importantly its an ALLY IN THE MIDDLE EAST. it is true america, we do have allies in the world! this damn iraq war has alienated us from a lot of countries in the world, but turkey has remained steadfast pro-american UNTIL NOW. turkey is growing into a powerhouse. today it may seem like an insignificant country that we can push around, nancy pelosi, but you watch out. when you are dead and gone and people like me are in charge, turkey will be a swing country when massive nuclear war breaks out.

we are already alienating russia from us with this missile defense system that poland and the czech republic DONT NEED. WE NEED IT. not them! russia is greatly insulted by this and we are now insulting turkey as well. whats wrong with washington? we cant go on in life unilaterally. we need allies, and (getting back to my original topic heh) the house is digging up demons of the past to haunt us once again.

ya'no what, i know turkey had a genocide. i read a book about it and ive researched it a bit. but u know what, im sorry. im sorry people died. im sorry people suffered. i seriously wish i could snap my fingers and all the suffering in the world will go away. unfortunately i cannot do that so why create more? turkey should come to terms with its past but now is not the time for such a measure to go through the house. bush will veto anything that gets out, but it is the very act of passing it that is insulting the turks.

mark my words. do not insult the turks. we will regret it. abandon the bill and help the future of america. or you can continue to be a short sighted humanist who wishes to expose the faults and weaknesses of others rather than use that time in congress to work on your own problems. just a thought.

Final 07-08 Sched

First Semester

1. Study Hall - Wolf
2. AP Euro - Cameron
3. Arch/Ftns/Bowl - Wiggins
4. AP English IV - Thompson
5. Senior Lunch
6. Spanish V AP - Boukal
7. AP Calc AB - Klaeren
8. AP Bio - Wolf


Second Semester

1. Fl Hoc/tnbl/Rec Game - Burton
same
3. Study Hall - Dryden
same
same
same
same
same


initial thoughts? ive heard good things about wolf. ive had burton before and hes awesome. IM SO PISSED THAT I DONT HAVE MAY FOR AP EURO!!!! cameron sucks so much and ive heard that from a plethora of people. hardy said that thompson is really good (um.... yikes?) ive got the klaerenator so thats good and ive got wiggins who seemed like a nice guy when i interviewd him for pony express.

PLEASE COMMENT THIS AND TELL ME WHAT WE HAVE TOGETHER! =)

Hell's Kitchen

as im sure u probably dont know, i am addicted to hell's kitchen. HK is the only reality tv show that i watch cuz the rest SUCK. well, i cant say that, the apprentice was great seasons 1-3 but after than it became about the glitz and the ratings, not about the business. but anyways, HK is your run of the mill reality tv show with a group of people completing tasks to win the grand prize, a dream job working in a resort restaurant. what sets it apart is the antics of one of my personal heroes, Chef Gordon Ramsay. this guy is absolutley hysterical to watch on TV, and he is the biggest star of the show. its hard to describe his appeal, but i think it has something to do with his constant stream of swears and insults directed at the cooks :D

anyways, its mere hours away from part 2 of the grand finale!!!! time to make some predictions. so its all down to the two final contestants, Rock and Bonnie.

i like rock. hes a cool guy but he has a big temper as we saw when he lost the lobster task lol. hes an excellent chef, but im not sure how well he can run his own restaurant. his leadership style is more slow, steady, and quiet whereas ramsay's is fast fast fast and ****IN LOUD!!!! (dont u love that the FCC censors only the middle bit of words. everyone can hear the IN at the end of FUCKIN lol.) however, this guy used to be an executive chef (much like my cousin) and i think that background shouldve given him the edge on bonnie and yet i dont think it has at all.

bonnie used to be a nanny for some snooty rich family in LA but she was more of a personal chef and babysitter than actually doing housework. shes got a nice personality and seems very likable and i KNOW that chef ramsay likes her. shes screwed up a ton during this season but ramsay always gives her a second (or third or fourth or fifth or.....) chance to get back on her feet which she usually does. lol i still remember her line from the first episode "[chef ramsay] makes me wanna pee my pants cuz hes SCARY!" bonnie has shown throughout the season that she has some great culinary talent and has some effective leadership skills.

BOTTOMLINE i dont know who to root for. rock is a cool guy and seems a lot more determined than bonnie is, but bonnies pretty cute and she has a nice butt so i dont mind if she wins.

the show seems to be hinting around that bonnie will win because they focus a lot on rock's setbacks in finale part I and only focused on bonnie's victories. however, this mite just be trying to trick us into thinking just that. we'll see what happens.

Summer and Stuff

in case you are one of the few people that i havent bragged to, i mean, told, i got a new phone a few days ago, the motorola RIZR Z3 series from T-Mobile. here are the specs http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/phones/Detail.aspx?device=f34e6f5f-52a0-43cc-ac13-8e7329dc5da3 and as you can see, its a very sweet phone. its a notch above the RAZR series because it has a 2 megapixel camera and stereo sound. i gotta say that i love this thing almost as much as i love my car. i can put all kinds of pics and music on it, and it even has VOICE COMMANDS!!! when turned on, i can say something like "call billy bob" and guess what.... BILLY BOB WILL BE CALLED!!!! how sweet is that? so yeah this phone kicks ass and it was worth the 50 bucks i spent on it.

i was reading the manual for it a few days ago and i just love the DONT DOs section of it. it says to "avoid the ground. dont drop your phone." and "don't put your phone in the microwave to dry it off." i am not joking. those are exact phrases from this book. i know they have to say those things for legal reasons, but i still find it hilarious that in this day and age people need to be reminded that if something delicate drops from your hand, something bad will happen because of gravity (or intelligent falling if you enjoy reading The Onion).

looking back at my blog topics, i've had few non-HP related postings this summer. meh, i guess im just getting lazy. my DC trip a few weeks ago was a lot of fun as usual. hell, DC is the perfect city for me. its got enough history and politics to satisfy any 17 year old republican boy for a loooong time. too bad i didnt see any major protests like i did last time. haha, i was walking along the mall and the cops surrounded a group of like 50 protestors who evidently had camped out on the national mall overnite. big mistake. they were shoving them up against the paddy wagons and throwing em in. gotta love the DoJ.

highlights? well the presidential chopper was DIRECTLY overhead when my dad and i were walking to the jefferson memorial. thats right. i was just a couple hundred feet away from GEORGE W. BUSH!!! it was so exciting. the flag was up when i went to the white house so GW was home that day. i wonder why he wasnt in crawford, i mean hes taken more vacation days than any other pres in the history of this nation.

the hotel food was rather nice altho i did get tired of the dinner buffet after the fourth day.... altho any hotel that is 2 blocks away from the air and space museum and has a pizza hut inside it is good with me lol. so anyways good times in DC altho i gotta say that the city's majesty wears off a bit with all the visits there. idc where my dad has a conference, i wanna go somewhere else. maybe philadelphia, boston, or some other place seeped in history. or maybe i could go to texas? that'd kick ass rite there. texas is such a friggin awesome state altho the climate is a bit too hot for my liking.

ya'no what word i DO NOT want to hear spoken out loud anymore? COLLEGE. i have always looked forward to goin to college and bein on my own and all that good stuff but my parents have warped this experience into something twisted and wrong. all i hear these days are "jason when are you gonna fill out those college apps?" "jason why did u put that down on that app? print out a new sheet and start over again" "jason why havent you read the course book?" "jason why havent we met with the college admission people from that one school?" WILL YOU SHUT UP FOR GOSH DAMN MINUTE!!!! SONUVABITCH IM ON IT SO GET OFF MY FUCKIN BACK!!!!!

sorry bout that outburst. yelling at them will only make the situation worse and besides, this nightmare will all be over on that blissful day where i mail in the apps and wait for Judgement Day. rite now im planning on applying to 5 diff colleges but that'll probably change as the weeks go on. ive always said that i wanted to apply to harvard or princeton just as a joke to see if i could get in, but i just realized that neither of those schools have what i want in a college.

im not a very picky person. in fact, im a type B personality and i like to go with the flow. im not picky at all when it comes to dorms. quite frankly any dorm room is preferable to this hellhole i endure each and every day. im hoping that i can get a parking space and bring my car with me so i can have a means of transportation but i dunno if that'll be possible. but i digress. harvard and princeton dont have education departments and i really want to keep that door open.

i mean, im gonna major in history and maybe i can squeeze in a minor in political science so what do u do with those degrees? law school? bah, i took a law course at COD before and i hate law. too much memorizing of pointless legal terms and keeping your nose in books all day long. politics? i'd love to do that but i dont want to rely on that for a career. i see teacher as the best option for me so i would love to get a teaching certification in college. i would never teach little kids and i dont have the money to pursue a PhD rite away so i'd get it in secondary school education.

thinking about all this makes my head hurt. i still gotta get through senior year and i kinda hate to say it, but im kinda ready for skool to start. i want to get through this year and all this college shit and then i'll graduate on May 30th, 2008 and i can begin the next chapter in my life. kinda sad saying goodbye to everyone. i mean, sure i'll keep in touch with lots but u cant keep in touch with EVERYONE.

so anyways, this summer has definitely been one of the if not the best summer of my life for a number reasons. i found the trick to making summer seem longer than it is. eagerly anticipate something towards the end of summer so that way it makes summer draaaag aloooong. see, i couldnt wait for HP 5 or HP 7 to come out so summer literally dragged on for me and it seemed to last forever. do u see me complaining? hell naw! summer was slow, enjoyable, and was all totally worth it. NOW its moving at breakneck speed and will soon be over in 2 short weeks. thats rite boys and girls. 14 days from this day is the first day. theres a lot i still want to do but i feel that ive accomplished a lot this summer and i have no regrets about it.

Deathly Hallows Part III, a conclusion

this'll be the shortest posting of the three. i just wanted to do one more post to look at the series as a whole and look at HP 7 compared to the rest of it.

i read the sorceror's stone when i was 9 years old (it was the relase of HP 3 in fall 1999 and the excitement around it that got me into the series), and i've been hooked ever since eagerly devouring each and every book since that one. ive waited 8 long years for this conclusion to the series, and it wildy exceeded my expectations. what ive seen looking back at the books is how JK really adapted her novels and has made them keep pace with the faction of her most loyal fans, kids who read the first book when they were 8-12 and are now 18-22 who have literally grown up with harry potter.

of course you had the nice vocab words such as incredulous that were unfamiliar to little jason in fourth grade, and these continued to book 7. yet it was the manner of her writing them that has given the impression that she was aiming each progressive book at an older and more mature audience. just lookit how many swears there are in HP 7 when compared to book 1 or the jokes between the two. dont get me wrong, i loved reading about ron's uncle who entertained people by pulling flowers out of his...... and that is why i applaud JK.

most authors have a writing style set in stone and refuse to budge. JK has adapted her writing to her base of hardcore fans, and that has made the series even more enjoyable. and now let me talk about something that ive been thinking about for a while now.

does the harry potter series have a religious undertone to them? im thinking that they do. the most obvious religious connection i found in the series was the whole end of book 7 *spoilers ahead*

and harry willinginly giving himself up to die and therefore ensuring that he would be resurrected and come back to lead Hogwarts to victory. i remember once that an interviewer asked JK if she was religious, and she replied that she was a Christian and that question annoys her because the question "do your beliefs influence your writings" is a better one and said no more after that. i see a lot of religious alusions throughout the series protraying harry as a Christ-like figure, and ive read some persuasive arguments from people supporting this as well.

anyways, i would like to reiterate my opinion in support of JK and the way she ended the series. everyone has been telling me how "corny" the last few chapters were and that the epilogue was "disney-like" and "childish." im not going to say that these things angered me, but i must say that people who say that arent looking at things from the author's standpoint. does JK want to write an epilogue that is 500 pages long, answers every question, and no one will read but the most dedicated fans? hell no. JK wanted to end the series on a good note that leaves the reader feeling good.

what did the epilogue accomplish? 1. harry/ginny and ron/hermione had children and includes names and ages 2. the reader gets a glimpse of some of the most important characters IE draco and neville 3. hogwarts has returned to normal 4. the trio is happy and content in their lives 5. all is well. thats rather a lot in less than 7 pages. could it have been longer? sure. could JK have written an epilogue that goes something like this: "the trio was content. voldemort was gone and would never return. life goes on." most definitely, but thats stupid.

was the ending a bit corny? yes. but i liked it. it left me feeling rather good that harry/ginny and ron/hermione are happy and making lots of babies w00t! u guys think this is disney? hell, disney is a lot worse than this, and JK couldve gone further but didnt. did the ending wrap up nicely and have everyone congratulate harry and have all the magical races living together and everyone held hands and sang kum-ba-yah (figuratively)? yes. but it effectively closed the book and i think it did this excellently.

*spoilers end*

of course everyone wont be satisfied with the ending of a book, but thats a good thing in society. it shows the diverse thought processes of our race and indicates healthy frontal lobes which is always desirable in this day and age when many people have shut that part of the brain off lol.

how has this series affected my life? i cant say that its changed my life and turned me on to reading and all that blah blah blah. i was harry potter for halloween 1999 or 2000 (its hard to remember that far back) and still have the kickass wand! w00t! ive read and reread these books and loved them every time and am still flabbergasted that its all over and done. i still have the encyclopedia to look forward to, but thats a loonnng way aways and i know that the HP 6 movie and probably HP 7 movie will be out before then so i will turn my attention that way.

in conclusion, thank you, JK Rowling for writing a magnificent series. i have greatly enjoyed reading, theorizing, and discussing these books for years. kudos to you! kudos! i leave you with these words of wisdom.

"not my daughter, you bitch!" - mrs. weasley

Deathly Hallows Part II

this one is silghtly more objectional than the previous one so lets hope i dont go off on too many tangents..... as promised, i will address things people have asked me about the book first.

*spoiler warning*

the shard of glass. i agree that JK didnt do a very good job of explaining this. i think it was a bit too coincidental that aberforth just happened to be carrying the shard with him when harry looked through it. im sure sirius wouldve but to aberforth it was just a mirror rite? maybe dumbledore figured out its power in HP 6 and told aberforth what he possessed and told him to constantly keep it in sight? i dont know. either way, i think it just wanted to reinforce dumbledore's statement early on in the series that help will come to those who ask it.

harry came back to life because voldemort resurrected himself using harry's blood which is the blood of lily evans, his mom. both men have the protection in their blood so their fates are tied to each other. the fact that harry gave himself up willing to death like his mother prevented him from dying, and it was this connection of blood with voldemort that drew him back to earth. was this a little too convenient? maybe, but i still loved the drama of it all. hagrid carrying harry's body out on to the grounds was a very powerful scene indeed.

I think that the final duel was done perfectly. Harry called him "Tom Riddle" and thus showed that he no longer feared Voldemort, that deep down he was still the little boy whose mother and father abandoned him. The fact that Harry offered Voldemort a chance to redeem himself (everyone knew he wouldn't take it, but it was the fact that Harry offered mercy that reinforced his character). I knew this whole time that Harry would never say "avada kedavra" even though he proved that he could finally use an unforgivable curse previously in the novel. I wouldn’t call it light-hearted, but it wasn’t very scary for the very fact that Harry no longer feared Voldemort or death itself. He was above that and was confident that he would triumph.

The plot was slow and drawn out because JK was showing the reader how the trio was feeling. They had little to go on and got angry about this. The middle of the book was quite long and rather boring, but this was just to illustrate their feelings at the time. Was this effective? Yes. Would I have preferred a bit more action rather than the scattered escapes from tight places? Yeah, but I think this way is acceptable.

True, the hallows was a side story to the big picture, but I think that JK fully meant it that way. She wanted to show us that Harry (even when possessing 2/3 hallows and the possibility of gaining the third from Hogwarts) never really considered pursuing his own power. He thought about it, but deep down he would never choose that so Rowling just wanted to use that to reinforce Harry's moral integrity and his loyalty to Dumbledore as opposed to Voldemort's obsession with using 1/3 of the hallows for his evil intentions.

heres my allegory of WWII and Hitler vs. Grindelwald that i emailed recently in case any of you guys are interested.

I distinctly remember JK giving an interview a few weeks after book 6, and she said that Grindelwald is pronounced "grin-duhl-vald" with an accent on the i suggesting a Teutonic or eastern European origin, and she said that the year 1945 was important on Dumbledore's chocolate frog card. The parallels between Hitler and Grindelwald are striking, but I am having some troubles with Dumbledore and the Allies, perhaps you could shed some light on this part. We have an innocent symbol, the Deathly Hallows Quest for Grindelwald who warped it into a symbol of evil, and then we have the swastika, a symbol of luck in eastern Asia that was warped into a symbol of death and hatred by Hitler. The only thing that I can think of Dumbledore symbolizing is England itself as opposed to a single person. The only time in history where I can think of England being explicitly allied with Germany is the Revolutionary War with Hessian mercenaries. I'm still thinking about the connection between early Dumbledore and early Grindelwald, and if I get any further brainwaves on that, I'll email you. However, I do see Grindelwald as a symbol of Hitler, but I think that it is important to note that Grindelwald wasn't killed by Dumbledore. I see direct parallels to history here, and it's best to have (real life in parantheses). Grindelwald (Hitler) was defeated in 1945, but he (Nazism and the beliefs of Hitler) wasn't completely destroyed. They lived on in a different form, a prison cell (scattered and isolated Neo-Nazi parties across the US and world). I see Voldemort symbolic of a Neo-Nazi who created a genocide of muggle-borns, wizards who could do magic, but didn't have the proper ancestry (German citizens who were Jewish) with a registry of muggle-borns (didn't Hitler have some kind of registry of all his citizens and their backgrounds? Not 100% sure on that one). Voldemort wanted to purge Britain of those unworthy to be magical (German citizens who weren't Christian) and then to conquer the world with a New World Order of pure-blooded wizards ruling over the muggles (similiar to Hitler's ultimate dream of a united Europe with no Jews and him in command). I'm sure that as we look deeper and I read this book again and again, more parallels will surface.

lol im sure everyone will say jason, you're reading too much into things, JK never wanted to do this, and I say yes, i am taking it a bit further than JK did. however, she did say in a recent interview that she placed connections between hitler and grindelwald although this wasnt her main reason for writing about this. that previous paragraph was just something to think about.

ok now im done with questions people had (well at least some of them). what else do i want to talk about?

one of my big questions that wasnt answered in this book was WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED THE NIGHT JAMES AND LILY DIED? i mean, we see voldemort's recollections, but that doesnt teach us anything new. we knew all that already! what happened to voldy's body? did someone bury it? what happened to his wand and how did pettigrew get it so easily in GoF? voldemort doesnt have any recollections of someone being with him and talking to him, but someone mustve been there to retrieve those things....

maybe i'll do a part III when i get some more brainwaves/questions about the book. altho im glad that JK is writing an encyclopedia for all this stuff. that'll be pretty sweet when it comes out altho it'll take a long time for that lol.

Deathly Hallows: a Spectacular End to a Spectacular Series Part I

before i delve into book 7, i just wanted to say a hearty thank you to JK Rowling for creating such a series. does it rival the plays of shakespeare or the works of aristotle? no, of course not. does it rival f scott fitzgerald or hemmingway? no, of course not. HP is not meant to be a classic to be studied in english classes. its just a story about a boy who find out that hes a wizard with a destiny written for him before he was even born.

i first started reading HP in 4th grade, i think 1999, so ive been waiting 8 years for this moment and i gotta say that it was pretty sweet holding book 176 to be sold at andersons this morning. i sped home (somethin like 15 or 20 over the limit, i wasnt really payin attention) and started reading with an interruption due to work and then resumed it and finished it this afternoon at 12:40 or so.

i would say that book 7 is my very favorite of the series, and i have discussed it with a few people and have read some online opinions about the book. im not going to say that this volume is perfect, but my minor complaints aside, i think that the manner that rowling ended the series was fantastic and fit in very well with the big picture.

*spoilers begin here. you've been warned*

where to begin? book 7 is on a much different level than the other 6 books. harrys not at hogwarts getting in all kinds of tomfoolery and earning detentions, hes a renegade, a marked man with a price on his head. lord voldemort held a successful coup of the ministry of magic and is now in control of it. he has instated a genocide of muggle borns and hired bounty hunters to capture them. exciting stuff, even if very dangerous for harry.

the plot twists and turns quite a bit sometimes being very predictable and others being totally out of the blue and a bit of a stretch, but it all fit in. theres so many aspects of the plot i could talk about but i'll just stick to a few things to keep this short.

what i really liked about this book was its look into the life of albus dumbledore. the problem with seeing the world through the eyes of harry is that we look at the same characters the same way he does. snape = evil git. dumbledore = infallible master of everything. however, rowling shows us that dumbledore may not be the perfect man that harry thought he was. dumbledore was human, and was tempted by the dark arts. he once thought to conquer death by using the deathly hallows and to rule over the muggle population with grindelwald. this storyline helped to show the human aspect of dumbledore and to compare and contrast him to harry now which worked nicely.

Mmm harry summed it up. Hallows or horcruxes? He chose to remain loyal (another motif of the book) to Dumbledore and follow the paths of the horcruxes when he himself could have become master of death. I don't think that Dumbledore gave him the stone to start the hallows quest, I think that Dumbledore didn't want it to fall in the hands of someone unworthy and chose harry to deal with it. Disposing of it was the best thing to happen to it.


Now, I cant call the final battle phenomenal, but I'll call it great. At first, I didn't think that fred shouldve died, but now that im thinking about it more, who else could've? Bill? Nah he got bit by the werewolf, that was his moment. Charlie? We hardly know him. Percy? Not after his turn around! Hes a good guy again! Ron? Absolutely not merely because hes a member of the trio, and how could JK murder one of them? Ginny? Hell no, shes gotta survive to make some babies for harry! Molly? It wouldn't have struck the same chord as fred's did. Arthur? Most likely of the candidates, but would it have struck the same chord with the reader? No. fred was a funny guy and a real comedian, well-liked by everybody. War and death care not for well-liked or well-known people, it strikes when it strikes so I can see that JK wanted to kill a beloved character without going too far (ron or ginny).

Battle for Hogwarts? Im glad the battle was set here because it drew everything together, and besides, whats a HP book without Hogwarts?!?!? I don't know where Fenrir's mighty werewolf army was and why there wasn't more giants there. However, I was amazed by neville's leadership skills and bravery. I mean, the kid went from sloppy to heroic in 7 years, kind of the kid u felt sorry for to the kid you admire. The moment where pansy insisted to hand potter over and the 3 other houses stood around him was a very stirring moment along with the very ending of wizard, house elf, and centaur all in harmony together, just as Dumbledore wanted.


I wasn't surprised one bit that snape was working for the order, and I wasn't surprised that he loved lily either. Frankly, I was expecting a bit more of a shocker ending, something completely out of the blue but it was rather predictable. I mean, JK is the master of red herrings and false trails and yet many crucial details of the plot were successfully predicted by many fans including myself. For example, the RAB = regulus, makes complete sense and fits in well with the story, but I admit, I was a tad disappointed that this was predicted by almost every serious HP fan.

This book also had a lot of turnarounds and redemption in it, that of scrimgeour (well, maybe not a complete 180, but he did die rather than tell voldy where harry was stationed), kreacher (more of JK's messages about treating the inferiors of society), and of course draco malfoy! The malfoys were sitting in the great hall at the very end and I don't recall reading anything about lucius fighting (draco had cissy's wand and he didn't fight at all, in fact a death eater mistook him for one of the enemy) so im glad that he chose the right side. But of course, the epilogue had the tension between malfoy's kids and harry's kids, but that could be expected. Come on! Whats life at Hogwarts if there are no rivals!

Lupin AND tonks dying? I don't think JK shouldve killed both of em. Lupin had to die, he was part of the marauders and the old world order, but tonks was young and had a child! I think Jk did this just to continue the legacy of orphans in the novel starting with voldemort, hagrid, harry, etc. and introducing little teddy as an orphan. I was disappointed that we never saw fawkes again. As I read the part about Hedwig being killed, I thought that this was JK's way of destroying harry's bird so he could have a different one. Alas! Fawkes didn't resurface and didn't become harry's pet so I wonder what happened to her (or him, I forgot which one). Also, we never learned if harry ever became an auror. Im sure that he did, but it was never mentioned explicitly so we'll never know.

*spoilers end here*

I apologize for the disjointedness and lack of flow in this blog. I just read the book and am rather excited to be talking about it. I promise further installments in this building on this one. Any thoughts you had on the book are greatly appreciated, leave em in the comments section, any questions or issues you leave, I promise that I will address in the future.

All in all, harry potter and the deathly hallows deserves 5 stars out of 5 stars for being an excellent read. Bravo jk! Bravo!