The Harry Potter Series by J.K.Rowling (Reading List)

Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone

Reading the start of the series again for the thousandth time never stops astounding me, just the magic and innocence of it all. Rereading it, with Harry who hasn’t a clue of the world yet and still has a lot to look forward to.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Every time I read the Chamber of Secrets, all I think of is Dobby and how much Lockhart was a douche and why In the Order of the Phoenix did he not think of the chamber for the meetings after all it would have set the mood.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

This is the one year Harry didn’t have to fight Voldemort, but found something close to a family he could get with Remus Lupin and Sirius Black. Every time I read Prisoner of Azkaban, I get so angry at how they act about Sirius and how he will never be a cleared man as we know all know he is an innocent man and know the Peter Pettigrew is still alive and was living as scabbers, but I also note that there Rowling gives us obvious clues, for example the lifespan of scabbers and how Hermione’s cat going after it more than other rats. I am always glad that we have been given Sirius Black he was always a fabulous drama queen.

Side note

Once I start reading Harry Potter nothing else matters and it is when I get to the Goblet of Fire, the fire in my soul burns for the series more than life itself and it is here where I feel the most excitement and love of the series, but it also pains me to know that death comes to often from now on.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

The year Voldemort returns, and the year war starts even if the Ministry denies everything. One of the parts I have found the saddest and always will is when Harry finds out about Neville’s parents and how it puts a little perspective on Neville, that he is as lost as harry.  Then there is Cedric who was should of comeback as victor of the tournament but was killed by Voldemort and to have people deny that Voldemort was back as to say his death meant nothing, it was heart-breaking, he should have been the hero. 

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Looking back on the Order of the Phoenix, I had always considered it my favourite out of the series, but now I find pain. Harry finds himself in a way absent from everyone else and unsure of how to deal with the death of Cedric and being left without information and everyone else not telling him much, even Sirius. Harry also had to deal with the abuse from awful Umbridge, fellow students, the government and the ridicule from the daily prophet, how is a 15 year old supposed to cope.

Then there is Sirius… the man who was locked up for twelve years (even though an innocent man) and two years on the run and then cooped up in a house he hated from his cruel and horrendous childhood, and then to give harry (the only real family he had left other the Lupin) to not open the present that meant they could talk more often without too much risk and then only to be killed in front of Harry and Lupin (who know have all his close friends, who were like his family dead), and not only to mention that he died according to the wizarding world a guilty man and that the world was never told of his innocence, and that only a selected few new of his innocence. I will never be over the death of Sirius Black.

Then there is Snape who was always my favourite character, seeing how he was treated by the marauders was horrible and unfair, yes I will admit he was not in any right to call Lilly a mudblood, but he was treated unfairly by them, and I feel in this part of the book is where his undercover work for the order began, as there were people who knew he was a former death-eater like Mr Malfoy and even Umbridge knew that the two were connected and Mr Malfoy had given a nice word on Snape to her and I do believe the Snape has a good side but is being exploited for the his mistakes and his bitterness.

It is only now that I feel a lot of sadness when I read Harry Potter and the Order of the phoenix, but I think it is the fact I gain a lot of emotions and that it speaks to me on a spiritual level that it is my favourite book even through the sadness and even when I am trying to hold back the tears.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The world now knows that Voldemort is back, and things aren’t going well for the ministry and for the Order, and Harry is still coping with the death of Sirius, and is going back to school, but not till his mission with Dumbledore.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is where the whole wizarding world changes and for the reader, for all the books we have believed that as long as there is Dumbledore, everything will be fine, but we find that even with Dumbledore there nothing is the same. Then unexpectedly we find Snape kills Dumbledore (even if Dumbledore knew and told Snape to kill him, so that he can help bring Voldemort down from the inside (and that we don’t know this till the next book when we find out that Snape was never Voldemort’s, but Lily’s)) the death of Dumbledore hits home like we all have lost someone dear. The wizarding world is never going to be the same again.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

It all ends here, the final part of the series. Lord Voldemort reigns supreme and only Harry can stop it; The Deathly Hallows is one where death must came and we all must live with the loss of all we love and hold true, and must realize that those we did not trust can be trusted again and old judgements must die and in the end, all will be well.

The Series Overall

The Harry Potter Series is the thing that got me into reading and is one that I will love passionately till the day I die. The characters and emotion are as real to me as flesh and blood. I have cried and wept with Harry and his friends as much as I have cheered with him through his entire journey. Harry Potter will be with us always..… Until the very end……