What's the big deal? It's only a book.

Heather, London,

"Iam really wondering why Herry poter is so popular,is this miracal of publicity?or magic of new technology? If both are true then future of serious literature is in danger. book`s real worth will decide by T.V. Internet.they will judge which book to publish and which is not. I think we are happyly giving our freedom to new monsters. We are puppit dancing on tune of new ditactiors. From renancance time we fought many war for fredom of speech write some time we got success some time falure, but today we are gladly surrendering our fundamental right to new technoloy"

I fear that you're concerns regarding Harry Potter are ridiculous and unfounded, bearing in mind that J.K. Rowling was rejected by several publishers before she took her manuscript to Bloomsbury for "Philosopher's Stone" . Sounds more like fear mongering.

I suggest sir that you relax and read the books for yourself.

D.Manthravadi, Manchester,

I have been reading these books since I was 12 and am now 22 and the feeling of loss is still with me. I have found myself mourning for the end of the series that has lit up the last 10 years of my life and also for my own childhood.
I thought it was exciting, sad and very dark but I had expected more key characters to die. The best bit for me was Neville, finally he got a chance to shine and prove himself.
I hope she give in to pressure and force out a few more books because I think that she would ruin and devalue the series.

Johanna Lowe, London, UK

Iam really wondering why Herry poter is so popular,is this miracal of publicity?or magic of new technology? If both are true then future of serious literature is in danger. book`s real worth will decide by T.V. Internet.they will judge which book to publish and which is not. I think we are happyly giving our freedom to new monsters.
We are puppit dancing on tune of new ditactiors. From renancance time we fought many war for fredom of speech write some time we got success some time falure, but today we are gladly surrendering our fundamental right to new technoloy

Ramesh Raghuvanshi, Pune, maharastra[India]

Oh dear...JK 'bottled' it !
None of the 'deaths' seemed relevant to the plot and in the end as she listed more of them they lost their impact.
Young readers have 'grown-up' with these books and would have been able 'handle' major character deaths providing they had either gone out 'in a blaze of glory' or in true 'sacrifice for the sake of the world' tradition!
These kids had so much 'get up and go' so much 'heart', 'bravery' and 'loyalty' we needed to know that their futures, after 'Hogwarts', would influence future generations of young wizards - this opportunity was lost in the 'cheesy' unconvincing epilogue.
Having spent all day Saturday reading it, this will probably be the only book of the series, to now remain untouched on the bookshelf, as opposed to being read and re-read multiple times, as the others have been!

Emerald Green, London, England

This book was all I expected and more. Rowling's wrote this book with a clear end in mind, beautifully tying in the previous six books. I felt that she left no stone unturned in regards to the plot, thoroughly explaining and rehashing events to make things work. The writing was dark and many narrow escapes and sad deaths ensued but that is to be expected when the wizarding community is at war. All in all it is easy to say that I have journeyed the 7 year path of Harry Potter and have happily reached the end.

Meg Latimer, Ponoka, Canada

I'm sorry to say that the last book of the potter series did not really hit my nerve. It ist, from the beginning on, absolut predictable and surprise is something very rare as is a good sense of humor.

I could easily deal with JKR's attitude to kill characters at will, but since the middle of the book it gets only boring. I trapped myself thinking "Oh yeah, another death - okay, who cares?" more than one time.

Aside from abasing some characters to mere statists (especially Ginny) book 7 isn't really able to deploy some depth to some of the main chars. I think that i expected much more and i have the urge feeling that some chapters were fixed with a hot needle. Sorry, for this part of the story, i'm not really satisfied.

But there is something great about the deathly hallows that must be mentioned. Well, in fact it's somehow despicable for the book but great for the upcoming movie. We can expect an action thriller movie with brilliance, at least on the opening and in the end.

Kaiserdrache, Düsseldorf, Germany

prepare yourself a moment like a death in the family after you finish. the emptiness is such an unexpected experience, you read one of the best books you'll ever read, and then a moment like your childhood being rip from you occurs. as you read the book all the loose ends that get tied are plausable, you never fell well she rushed this part, you can understand the few early deaths as a writing device to free J.k. but you simply accept them without questioning. i would say the book was near perfect, but the epilouge which seemed simply for the shippers irritated me, as a person who did not care about shipping i felt a lot more information should've been given, cos j.k. is gonna have a whole load of new quesions, that will need there own book to anwser. i have little doubt that in 10-20 years we will get new books about the wizarding work not about Harry though.

Marvin Sackey, London, United Kingdom

Spolier Alert!

I must say I was a bit disappointed in this final book. Rowling has clearly "sold out.". The Hollywood style dance routine was interesting enough, but the car chase scenes - with two workmen conveniently carrrying a large sheet of glass - is a funny sight gag, but far too cliche for my tastes.

However, the hostage crisis subplot and resulting negotiatiions with the surprisingly articularte space aliens should make for a magnificent final film.

Paul Nicholas Boylan, Dorking, England

Hi, what a wonderful book. I'm 21 years old. I was enchanted by the quality of ilumination that J. K. has. When I have children, I'll make sure they have these on the bookshelve to read.

Darwin, Bronx, US, New York City