that’s it then

How’s this for beautiful? I guess about four years ago, I was sitting in a beach house on Bald Head Island, and it was raining. I didn’t have anything to do, and there were several books on the shelf. I picked up the first Harry Potter book and started reading. By the next afternoon, I was finished. At this point, I think at least three of the books had already been published, so I borrowed them all from friends and sisters, and I’ve been keeping up with ol’ Harry ever since. Well today, friends, I address you from that very same beach house, having just finished the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book. I think it’s beautiful because in those four years since I started reading the books, I’ve moved about eight times, and yet I somehow managed to start and finish not just one book, but an entire series, in the same house. Whitney thinks this is very funny that this is my idea of stability. I love being her friend.

But now about the book itself. Mom, stop reading now. Come back when you’ve read it. Everyone else can keep reading whether you’ve finished the book or not.

My sisters kept expecting me to be just weeping my eyeballs out, and I never did, and they called me heartless because of it. And to be honest, I did get a little misty in a few parts, but the reason I didn’t cry at all as Harry walked into the Forbidden Forest was because I knew what would happen. I had called it all at the conclusion of the sixth book. All of it. I mean, obviously I couldn’t have known all the details, who would die and when and how, the mystery of the wands, Snape’s obsession with Lily Potter. But the part that everyone cared about - What happens to Harry? That part, I could have written just as easily as J.K. Rowling. We came up with the same thing. So as I was reading it, I felt like I would have felt if someone had told me what happened before I got a chance to read it for myself. A little disappointed. So it wasn’t that I didn’t like the story, or that I wasn’t satisfied with the outcome. I did, and I was. Very much so. It just didn’t hit me with as much newness and surprise as I would have liked upon first reading. I guess it’s my own fault I’m such a friggin’ genius.

What did y’all think?

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