I finished the book early this afternoon. Last night I read up to the final chapter and decided to go to sleep and finish it today. Woke up, did the get ready for the day rituals and then before I ate some food took my final new trip into the world of Harry Potter.

The book was fantastic. That’s really the easiest way to sum it up. I’m still digesting things, waiting for some friends to finish reading it (I thought I did it fast, I basically read all of sunday since I had work and company over on Saturday. The speed readers finished it on Saturday). It’s neigh impossible to finish any type of story that so many people read and make it something everyone is satisfied with. I thnk Rowling did it though. 7 books, hours of reading, thousands of pages, probably close to a million words and she pulled off a series that is going to be read for generations.

But I am dissapointed. First that it is the last book, the story is over. I’ve been with the series since 1999 and knowing that there aren’t any more books coming is a sad thought. Sure she may do some encylopedia type stuff like she’s done before, but the adventure, the journey, the tale, is over.

She killed a whole mess of people. Like…a lot. It was really a war book, the darkest, most adult and suprisingly complex book. But the story ends, one I’m basically happy with and then she has a “19 years later” Epilogue that’s 6 pages long. The space between the end of the book and the epilogue is basically a black hole. I’m dying to know of the aftermath of the war, the rebuilding of the Wizarding world. There were some funerals I wanted to go to, to see what many of the kids went on to do and it’s simply not there. I thought the epilogue was going to be about 30 pages long but only got 6. A mere morsel of what I’d consider the whole story. It’s pretty fucking annoying knowing that’s all there is. You get a certain attachment to this world and I’m not just yearning for more, but to fill in that black hole that’s there. It feels like it isn’t finished to me.

That’s life though…it’ll be interesting to see what Rowling does next. Lord knows she’ll have millions of people ready to follow her.