“This is the best book yet! I can't say that I didn't find elements that were too neatly wrapped up (nearly every denouement, much less one to a seven-book plot this layered and complex, will seem to be too nicely, too conveniently wrapped up, but there you go).
Still, this book is brilliant in its essence! Harry's journey has brought him more sorrow and heartache than any child should have to endure, yet here he finds more; and through it all, he maintains his humanity.
Magic is not what solves this "riddle"; it is Harry's willingness to sacrifice what humans hold most dear that saves his world.
He finally lets go of the past, of his demons, and looks to a future (even one in which he may have no part) for salvation. And he finds it.”
monig wrote this review Wednesday, December 19, 2007.
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