Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Spoilers Ahead!
If you have already read
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows but still have lots of questions about the book and the characters, these resources should be a big help. You can even test your knowledge of
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by taking a quiz.
Warning! Spoilers ahead! There is fascinating information ahead but much of it contains specific information about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. You may want to wait to look at it until you've read the book.
Web Chat Transcript: 7/30/07 Bloomsbury.com Interview With J.K. Rowling
If want more details about events in
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and you want to know more about the characters' lives after the book ends, you need to read the transcript of the July 30th Bloomsbury.com
interview with J.K. Rowling. It is posted on the Harry Potter fan site The Leaky Cauldron. In the interview, Rowling answers some burning questions from readers. Don't miss it!
Video: Today Show Interview with J.K. Rowling
The Leaky Cauldron site also features Meredith Vieira's two-part
interview with J.K. Rowling on the
Today Show during which Rowling discusses the end of the series and answers questions from young readers. Among other things, find out which character Rowling thought about killing and later decided not to, as well as her thoughts about some of the other deaths.
USA Today Interview with J.K. Rowling
In a July 25th interview, which was published in
USA Today on July 26, 2007, J.K. Rowling discusses her feelings about the series, what it's like having finished the series, what's next, and how she feels about the deaths in the books. In the interview, Rowling states,
"I was very pleased that people thought Harry's death was a genuine possibility. I was very proud, because my story had to make the possibility of death real. I wanted the reader to feel that anyone might die, as in life."
On
USA Today's Web site, in addition to the article, you'll find audio excerpts from
Rowling's interview in which she discusses such topics as her favorite character and her current projects.
An Review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
According to the Guide to Contemporary Literature, Mark Flanagan,
Rowling strikes a perfect balance in attacking her dark subject matter in a manner fitting for both the adult and younger reader. Never once did I feel spoken down to, nor did I come across anything too mature for my ten-year-old daughter, who was reading the novel concurrently.
Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Quizzes
CBBC Newsround has five online
Harry Potter quizzes based on
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, so you and your kids can see how much you remember after having read Harry Potter Book 7. Each multiple choice quiz covers five chapters.
Book Review: Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows
In her
Chicago Tribune review, Julia Keller, Tribune cultural critic, emphasizes,
"Harry's last great adventure winds up being far less about clever plot twists and body counts, and more about the emotional and intellectual satisfactions of entertaining profound questions: Why is the world unjust? Why do our friends disappoint us? Why must the good die and the evil sometimes prosper?"
CBBC Newsround Review
Find out what kids think of
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and add your own opinion. According to the UK site,
Newsround usually writes its own reviews, but - because the publication of Deathly Hallows is such a big event - this
review is up to YOU. The idea is to pull together your views about the book to make up a single review.
A Round-up of Reviews of Harry Potter Book 7
The National Post in Canada provides links and information about
reviews of
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in Canada, the U.S., and the UK.
Join the Discussion
How do you and your kids feel about
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and the entire Harry Potter series? Join the
Harry Potter 7 discussion on the About.com: Children's Books Forum.
No comments:
Post a Comment