I’ve been reading the Deathly Hallows to Claudia every evening since Amazon.com sent it to us last weekend. Tonight was the first time I could get through two chapters without her falling asleep such has the hectic pace of her life been. She’s had 7:30 AM meetings every day this week and cooked meals five nights in a row.
Tonight we really got into the book. We are on the eve of Charlie Weaver’s wedding. After all the precautions the Order of the Phoenix has taken it didn’t occur to anyone that having a big celebration the day after Harry turns seventeen would invite catastrophe????? And what’s with the lame bequests that Dumbledore left our intrepid trio?
My son read the book in three days which was a testament to his determination to do well in his Chemistry class. He’d have inhaled it in one day otherwise. My daughter only had about a hundred pages left when Dad and I went to visit her. She was afraid someone from work would give the ending away. There were at least two copies of the book in my jury pool this week. For our part Claudia and I will plow through this book like banshees once we’ve handed Dad off to his son tomorrow at Detroit Lakes. I’ll read it all the way home and then tomorrow night we’ll go see the latest Harry Potter movie.
While I’m away in Canada I too should write a saga. It would be the story of how the current Duluth School Board got it in its head that a quarter-billion facilities plan would solve all its problems. There won’t be any magic in this story – no little boy forced to live in a closet by his clueless relatives – but there may be a few plot twists.
