Mugglenet.com’s What will happen in Harry Potter 7?
First, a quiz. Please identify the following as true or false.
1. I have heard of Ron, Hermione and Harry.
2. RAB was a known Death Eater.
3. I have my copy of the The Deathly Hollows reserved.
4. Hogwarts is a boarding school for young wizards.
5. My diary has been cleared for the weekend of 21 July.
6. Snape is good.
7. Snape is bad.
8. JKR believes Quidditch has been done to death.
9. McGonagall gets a promotion in HBP.
10. Harry is a Horcrux.
1-3 true responses – You are a pop culture observer. Please skip this review, watching the media through the second half of July will tell you everything you want to know about Harry Potter 7.
8-10 True responses – You qualify as a Harry Potter fanatic. I suspect you know all about Mugglenet.com and you are even a contributor. Don’t waste your time with this book and continue preparing your own academic thesis on JKR and TDH.
Everyone else – read on. This book is for me and you and all the rest of the Harry Potter devotees.
Like everyone else in the youth literature world I read The Half Blood Prince on the weekend it was released. I have often wished I had time to actually reread the series before the release of the latest book, but somehow there is never enough spare time. By the end of 6 books in the series there are a lot of characters to sort out and remember where they all fit in. I generally remember the end of HBP, and how clearly the plot of number 7 was set out but after all this time details are kind of sketchy.
Mugglenet.com deserves our thanks in this slim volume (or at least slim in comparison with JKR’s) gives us all the opportunity to refresh our memories, engage in some harmless speculation and debate about the end of the Harry Potter world. The team have analysed all six of the previous books, all of JKR’s interviews, conducted fan surveys and generally done their homework convincingly. That means the rest of us devotees don’t have to.
Some have questioned me about the ‘shelf-life’ of a book that is going to be made redundant in a few weeks. Is it worth buying for libraries, or even for the family when all the questions will be answered in a few short weeks. I say yes. The website will move on, change and even perhaps disappear eventually. But What Will Happen can stay on the shelf as a permanent reminder of the incredible series of books that restored children’s literature a primary position in modern media.
Right or wrong about what happens in TDH – who cares. This book is a lot of fun.
