More Harry Potter Blues

Well folks, I've now officially read "Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince." I'm sure many of you have already read it, but for those of you may still have yet to read it (or at the very least have gotten to the end), then you may want to be warned that I will be discussing something that happened at the end of the book. So for those who don't want spoilers, it may be best to just skip this post until you finish the book. Now then, on to my rant. "Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince" has been beaten up quite a bit recently. There are readers who believe this be the best book in the series, and then there are readers who believe this to be the worst book in the series (to the extent where some people have vowed not to read the final book in the series).

Personally, I don't this book is either of these. Granted, there WERE parts of the book that serious sagged, and the ending was perhaps one of the best (worst?) cliffhanger endings written for the series, but I think it was nothing more then a very solid book (for me, "Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire" was the best book in the series to date). One thing you can't deny though is how much of a controversy this book has caused. Not with church groups mind you, but with fans of the series. Many people do not like how a certain person died. Some people do not like how a certain character came off as clueless when he/she was very wise in the early books. Some people do not like the betrayal that was in the book.

There are revelations about Dumbledore, Snape, Voldemort, and Harry Potter in the book, and they all have heated debates about their fates in the (supposingly) final book. So with all this debate going on, I want to discuss...Ginny. Aside from "Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire," my second favorite Harry Potter book is "Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets." One of the reasons I love that book so much is because of Ginny. Once she came onto the scene and showed that she was both shy (scared to talk to Harry) and brave (sticking up to Draco Malfoy), I fell in love with the character and saw great potential for her character. While Ginny has always been, more or less, in everyone's shadows in following books, once "Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix" was released, I was pleased to see she had a bigger role in the series.

I didn't want to discuss my theory of Ginny's purpose in the series with my friends (because they would laugh), but now that I've read "Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince," I know EXACTLY what her role is going to be in the final book: To be Harry's wife! Ever since I read "Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets" I had this instinct in my gut that these two characters were made for each other, and now that I've read six out of seven of the books, I'm very confident of where Harry will wind up in life. I know Harry and Ginny got together and separated by the end of "Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince," but I believe this will be a temporary split, as these two characters love each other too much to stay separated for good.

No, they will get together at the end of the seventh book. Why do I say that? Well, what got me thinking was (surprisingly) something that happened in the first book. In "Harry Potter and The Sorcerers Stone" Harry finds a mirror that shows him his deepest, darkest desire. In the mirror Harry sees his parents. Does this mean Harry longs to see his parents? Well, that could very well be, but to interpret this vision as just that would be cutting out the heart of Harry's desire, which is really to have a loving, caring family. As of now, the family that has (pretty much) accepted Harry as a member of their own family are the Weaslys. So since Harry's deepest desire is to have a family, wouldn't it make the most sense for him to officially become a member of the Weasly family by marrying their only daughter?

More proof of this is in "Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix," in which Ginny ends up both comforting Harry when he needs it, and putting him in his place when he gets to be unreasonable. This is the kind of person Harry needs to have, and I think Ginny is the best one to fit the role for this. While many people will claim that Harry showed little interest in Ginny until "Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince" came out, I have to admit that this was brilliant writing on Jo's part, because it takes most boys in real life a bit of time to realize that the person they love has been right in front of them all this time. Finally, the last bit of proof comes in Sirus's death. Now when I first read "Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix," I was kind of...perplexed as to why Jo Rowling would kill such a minor character in that book.

After all, Sirus not only died pretty quickly (too quickly maybe. Some people didn't realize he died until the following chapter), but he was a horribly underdeveloped character, one that spent more time hiding in the shadows then he was interacting with anyone. When I study the death more closely, I realized that Sirus's death was more symbolic then it was tragic. Harry's biggest desire was to have family, and he found the closest thing to family in his godfather Sirus. But Sirus (due to his Azkaban prison sentence) was always looking at the past and never the future. Harry can't live in the past, so Sirus had to be killed so that Harry could look torwards the future. I didn't get Sirus's death then, but I get it now, and I can see why Jo was very strict in making sure he died.

With all that in mind, I can safely assure everyone (and all Harry/Ginny fans out there) that our favorite couple WILL get married at the end of the series! Of course, there are several of you out there who are bound to point out that certain events in the books are suggesting that Harry might not even survive at the end of the series. I've heard these rumors, and I can safely say that Harry WILL live in the end! There is no possible way he can't. If he died, I promise you there would be a mob. All the millions of Harry Potter fans are NOT spending years reading these books, spending a couple hundred dollars, and reading a couple thousand of pages of a book series, only to get to the end of the series and have the main character die.

I'm sorry, but that would be the worst ending of all, if nothing else but because it would mean that Harry spent years of suffering, only to die without ever being able to truly live a happy life. What kind of an ending is that? If Jo does go in that direction, then it will truly show a lack of love for her characters. Now you may be wondering why I bothered to write all this for the Ginny character? Isn't the death far more interesting to talk about? Maybe, but everyone else is talking about who "died," that I just don't feel like repeating what someone else has already said. Very few people seem to be talking about Ginny, and since I found the love triangles in "Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince" to be some of the most interesting parts in the book, I felt that it was a shame that people weren't talking about it as much.

And before you say anything else, I DO find the character relationship scenes more interesting then all the flashback sequences of Voldemort (which, unsurprisingly, just showed us that Voldemort was a jerk as a kid)! I love the Harry Potter books for the human aspects of the stories, NOT the mystical aspects! So if I talk about Harry Potter, chances are it will be about character relationships. Don't like it? Then Mugglenet.com may be a better place to read your Harry Potter rants.