What is remaining after the Deathly Hallows?

Yesterday has been a very strange days. I finished the last J K Rowling’s book the night before, and the entire Sunday has gone thinking back at the happenings of the Book 7. Sometimes I felt sad because of the knowledge that the saga is over; the same sadness I still experience.

Please note that I will write some “light” spoiler, so if you will proceed in the reading, be warned!

Ok, if you are here I expect you to have already finished reading the book. I will NOT give you specific spoilers, if you expect to read a summary of the book, wikipedia has the perfect one!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Uk Cover, Child EditionSomeone asked me if the Deathly Hallows was better than the other. I don’t know. I definitely Loved it, but a part of me hated it. Everybody knows that some characters have died in the book, and those deaths have been a great significance. The character whom I loved more in the entire saga died… this IS sad! I cannot tell if this was the best book of the saga, because it is SO different from the others that it is hard to make a comparison! I’ve Loved it, but I don’t know which one is the “best”.

This book has a significant difference between all the others: Hogwarts. Yes, in the end you see it, but it is not the same. I think that the idea of linking something as well known as the school to something external to our perception as magic was one of the things that made these books a milestone. Sometimes, during the wandering of Harry, Hermione and Ron, the lack of the usual, well known school was so strong that a fast pacing book like the Deathly Hallows seemed slow.  It has been, on the contrary, a book with a complete different pitch, very fast.

Hollywood has taught us that the death of important characters takes ages: J K Rowling, in this book, remembers us that this is not true. Everyone of those who died were there one moment, and then they were gone the moment after. Zap, and he/she is gone, like this, snap!

What is remaining after the Deathly Hallows? Well, for now the sadness of being unable to read another book, right here, right now. Lately I have been unable to find some good book, apart from those I already loved, and this makes the thing more sad, if possible.