One of my goals for this year was to re-read the Harry Potter series from start to finish. As a lover of all things Hogwarts from the very beginning, I read each book as soon as they came out in the stores. However, with the year lag time between each, I tended to forget what happened in the last book when the next would come out. And there's the little matter of me hating the movies. I tried to love them as much as I loved the books, but the truth is that they changed the way I thought of the characters and Hogwarts which just ticked me off. So whereas everyone caught up with things they forgot in the movies, I've been blissfully ignorant.
Now thanks to the slowness of work and my need to have something readable at all times, out popped Harry Potter again to end my ignorance. I've just finished the first book and have loved it almost as much as I did the first time. The story is still captivating, and the characters are just as wonderful as always. I had even completely forgotten who was the bad guy which made the ending, that much better.
The best part was that I picked up a few clues for things that happen in the future stories, which is the whole reason I started this re-read in the first place. Little easter eggs like this really prove what a genius JK Rowling really is!
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