Harry Potter & The Final Review

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HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS It begins with death. Right there in black and white in the first chapter of The Deathly Hallows. And it ends with death...and the end of an era. Who lives and who dies? Well, to be honest some of the losses are heart-wrenching, but somehow, they fit, too. I won't name names, but I have to say a HUGE sigh of relief for me, because I had literally imagined the worst. And in this one, it's Harry, who shows himself up as the real hero - this is most emphatically his book, his coming of age. And he's got back-up! From setting out on the mission to find the Horcruxes, a mission that the late Professor Albus Dumbledore set him on...to learning to control the bursts of unfettered access he has to the evil Lord Voldemort's plans, to giving people hope, in small bursts,....

I'm Ok...You're Ok...With Harry or Without

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I think I have to say this right at the outset...whether you love Harry Potter or can't stand him, let it go! Live and let live. The world's moved to this strange place where you're either with them/us or against them/us. And it doesn't have to be this way. Even in the face of all this massive hype, the first question you ask people doesn't have to be whether they've read Potter, whether they love Potter, or that infernal question, Who is going to die?! For fun, let's toss some numbers around...240,000 - around the number of copies of The Deathly Hallows that Penguin Books India, the exclusive distributors, have sold in the country. $4 billion - the money the multi-specialty publicity-spinning machine has churned out. 7 - the total final, full and final number of books that Harry will feature in, says JK Rowling. (But this is....