It started a year ago!!!

Well! This is not another book which teaches you how to live your life, but it surely will treat your imagination to the maximum. 'The last book' of the Harry Potter series, 'The deathly Hallows' has kept me waiting for over a year and a half now. But the wait has been worth while.

I got into reading way way late, in my early twenties.. we'll given that I'm still in my early twenties, its not been very long. To be precise, a year and a half. And I've read the very same books which are counted among the favorites in every profile on Orkut. The best till date have been the Sherlock Holmes, Dan Brown and Harry Potter volumes.

I started off in Nov 2005, with the most talked about book - 'The Da Vinci Code'. Then followed 'Angels and Demons' , by the same author. Around the same time, HP6 had released and few of my friends had started off with book one. I remember calling it a fairy tale and Pramod asking me to try a few pages of the book. I finally decided to look into it, given that the 1st book was the smallest of the 3 books i had started with.

I called up Pramod after I was done with the 1st 100 pages, telling him that I wasn't finding the book interesting. I was told to read the rest of the book. I did continue reading it, but to wrap it up as ASAP. When I got back into reading, Harry got himself admitted to Hogwarts. And the fun began! The school, the dormitories, the characters, the houses, the bully s, Quidditch, the suspense, the lessons, the adventures and the MAGIC. Its was a world in itself.

My best character in the book is obviously Harry Potter... If you look closely into the character, you'll find Harry the least intelligent of the prominent characters in the entire book. I like the way Rowling makes him look like a hero. 'Being at the right place at the right time', as Harry puts it and just by sheer luck and a little help from his buddies and Dumbledore. Snape actually looks at him the right way - Stubborn and irresponsible. But he has matured through the books and Book 7 is all about Harry. The real Harry - without the people he loves. Rowling must bring the most famous fictional character, only next to Holmes to being a real hero.

Snape is another character I like. The guy who never got what he deserves just because he was a git. Hermione is the other.

Book after book, I was just another big JK Rowling fan. Her way of writing interests me. If not for it, Potter wouldn't have been so big a character today. I'm just waiting for the last book to be released on 21st this month, even if it is going to write an end to the whole series.