Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

"Neither can live while the other survives..."

Harry Potter is at an end! After waiting several years for the final book to be within my grasp, I cannot help but feel abit (Just abit, mind you!) aimless! What other book do I have to patiently wait for, to keep my mind running rather than just focus on the "muggle" world around me?! Nah, I'm not obsessed about Harry Potter, but I certainly do feel sad there will be no more tales of magic from the awesome author, J.K. Rowling.

The Deathly Hallows is, without a doubt, a book you cannot put down until you have read its contents thoroughly. (Maybe I'm abit blinded to the fact that I have been waiting for this book since forever!). I can't really say much, seeing as many people haven't read the book yet, but I can tell you, it's totally not what was expected! The idiotic rumours that people spread around kind of sets you off guard about what really happens, so it'll actually maybe benefit you or just confuse you further (like it did me).

I open at the close; "I am about to die"

One thing that really touched a nerve on the day I was suppose to be enjoying my book, was the daring stunt pulled by Tesco and Carrefour. How is it possible that previous Harry Potter books (e.g. The Goblet of Fire, The Order of the Pheonix, The Half-Blood Prince) are more expensive than the FINAL book?! How could they set a price, lower than the MAJOR book sellers like MPH and Popular, without properly notifying the public (a few advertisments a few days/weeks before is not counted!) seeing as MPH has been taking pre-orders since GOSH-knows when! I don't really care about the fact I paid RM39.00 extra buying from MPH, but it's the audicity of having the grand opening of the most-awaited book sold at a price and at places that just does not seem right! Good then, for those people who are typical asians of wanting to hold on to every single penny and not see the bigger picture of anything except the "bargain" they had just accomplished.

Earlier, Penguin managing director Eddy Teo urged the hypermarkets to practise good business sense and fair trade.
“The public must understand that bookstores don’t make much profit because their source of income is only books while the range is diversified for hypermarkets,” he said.

*** Taken from an article from The Star***

However, MPH and the other bookshops made a mistake of taking the Deathly Hallows of the shelves because customers (who did not pre-order) had no other choice but to resort to buy from those defiling booths that have the RM69.90 posters plastered basically everywhere. Good to know, that MPH and the other bookshops have finally stopped their boycott though!

Alas, for those individuals that just don't see the reason of wanting to buy any Harry Potter book because of stupid excuses like "You're just making J.K. Rowling richer!", I am appreciative of good and creative work. If YOU had written a book that took all your blood and tears, that you had to constantly focus on for years, creating backgrounds, plots, themes and characters from nothing BUT scratch, and at the end of it, not be paid...how the effing would you feel?! DUH, so what if she's the richest author in the world! So what if she's laughing in our faces as we line up with money in our hands to purchase her books! It's not like we're just handing over our hard-earned cash to her you know!

LoL This is a pretty long post on just a book... But it's a good way to let-slip my opinions without people telling me to shut up about Harry Potter haha!

Singapore singapore singapore Singapore singapore singapore is still on! w00t! Hoping it will be an awesome trip, and a trip that I could hold on in dear memory while I'm stuck in the States. *Sobs* a few weeks left.. hating the knowledge of having to return to packed rooms and shared-toilets.

"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death"