July 2000. A pile of new books in the school library. I picked up a fat one from the pile with an interesting title - The Goblet of Fire. It left me gasping for breath & words when I finished it a few days later.July 2007. Whoa. 7 years hence, and I feel exactly the same way I did then.
It's been 10 years since she wrote the first book, and she did not let me down. A BIG thanks to you Jo!
Extremely fast paced, packed, dark, desperate, heroic, old-fashioned, it was everything I asked for & more from the last book. Like many of us around the world I grew up with Harry Potter, & even though I feel exactly how I did 7 years back, after reading the last book, it's amusing to see that the things that touched me, that affected me, moved me, that I completely identified with while reading this book are so different from the ones back then.
The doubting hero, loyalties being tested, fears faced, the battle of battles, secrets revealed, grief, love & hope. It had it all. And it was absolutely DELICIOUS.
It was an old tale, an old plot, the characters-old archetypes. But I guess it's the kind of story I would always want to hear, again & again. And she told it well.
A few lines that "pricked"
"Severus?
Snape's lips twisted in a smile when she said his name"
"Seeing them together that way made him feel lonely"
God bless you Jo.
