the saga is over

phew!

finished!!!

i re-read the harry potter series.

i got the idea from another friend. i was not original.

i have held off seeing the final film until i finished the final book.

it took three months....but i did it!

harry potter and the sorcerer's stone. year one.

harry potter and the chamber of secrets. year two.

harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban. year three.

harry potter and the goblet of fire. year four.

harry potter and the order of the phoenix. year five.

harry potter and the half-blood prince. year six.

harry potter and the deathly hallows. the final installment.

i have discussed with another literary friend the merits of the above mentioned series. he claims that they are drivel, hardly worth being called literature, and not worth the time to read much less read a second time.

i disagree.

while, i would not put under the category of fantastic literature.... i find them entertaining, engaging, fun, complicate, insightful, and overall great. i can't claim to know if they will be read 50 years from now, like i think the chronicles of narnia will be.... but who knows.

i am exhausted having read them one right after the other, but i will probably start reading them to my kids in two years and will read one each summer. they have already been told the revised version of the first three books for a bedtime story..... and i will deny it if you ask if my six and four year old have seen the first movie......

and now if i could just find time to go and see the final film before it leaves the big screen.