Saturday 6 September 2003

I’ve finally finished reading the last book of Harry Potter. The Order of Phoenix was probably the most expected book of the year, and after reading it I’m able to find many reasons that justify that expectation. The only great difference of it from the other four is the size, everything else stays the same. The power it has to take the reader into a trip along fantasy, the ability it has to make the reader read until it is no longer possible, the capacity it has to change the priorities of the reader’s life during the reading time, all that is exactly the same as it was since the first one. The big problem this book has is the size… It took me 3 days to read it, and I would only stop reading it when it was no longer possible for me to see the letters on the book because I was to sleepy to continue, this had a rather curious consequence, yesterday I went to bed at 8o’clock in the morning, and the main reason for it, was because the minute I started to read the book, I would enter that fantasy world in such a deep way, that I would lose complete track of the time.

I suppose not everyone is capable of entering that fantasy world in such a deep manner but I believe that everyone that is, wished that world would really exist or at least that ours would be a little more like it. And the reason is simple, in that fantasy world where witches and wizards exist, where the common of the mortals is not allowed, in there, the Human values are truly taken in account, in that world even the darkest soul respects values such as loyalty, brotherhood and friendship... values that are not respected by many people we know.

PS: Some of you might be asking yourselves why I don’t say anything of what’s in the book. I believe that everyone that has the curiosity of knowing what’s in it should read it, and not trying to get bits of it, from other places…