{"id":202,"date":"2007-08-01T15:00:18","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/08\/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-j-k-rowling\/"},"modified":"2011-10-08T21:33:26","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T20:33:26","slug":"harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-j-k-rowling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/08\/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-j-k-rowling\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J. K. Rowling)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Fantasy, 8\/10 &#8211; July 2007<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/BookReviewImages\/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/>I was dreading the possibility of a dark close to this series but I was delighted with the happy fairy tale ending (Harry Potter is a children&#8217;s book after all). I&#8217;m going to miss Harry, but I&#8217;ve decided if I ever have children, I&#8217;ll definitely read it to them.<\/p>\n<p>Harry is a hero but not through talent, skill or intelligence. He triumphs through determination, bravery and most of all, luck. Harry is unbelievably lucky. I was thinking that as the series progressed and Harry got older, he would start becoming more skilled and powerful and beat Voldemort in a fair fight at the end. It was not to be &#8211; It was luck all the way. Poor Voldemort must be feeling a bit hard done by really. It seems in the Potter world, wands are not well understood by the majority of Wizards and Witches. It is not the case that a Wizard is the master of a wand, in fact it&#8217;s quite the opposite. I would have liked wand law to have been explained a bit better.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, Magic is Magical. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fantasy, 8\/10 &#8211; July 2007 I was dreading the possibility of a dark close to this series but I was delighted with the happy fairy tale ending (Harry Potter is a children&#8217;s book after all). I&#8217;m going to miss Harry, but I&#8217;ve decided if I ever have children, I&#8217;ll definitely read it to them. Harry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1845,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/1845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}