Reading "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"

Non-warning: There is no spoiler here. So if you haven't finished reading the book yet, it's ok. You can read on. I haven't finished the book yet also. Haha.

I don't know why I'm reading this Harry Potter novel now by the famous and now ultra-rich J.K. Rowling because I really didn't like the Harry Potter books and even the movie. Once, I flipped through some pages of one of the Harry Potter book series which the title I already forgot and put it down not even finishing one chapter. I also watched one of the movie adaptations. Again, I forgot the title of the only Harry Potter movie I watched (I think it's the first one), and fell asleep in one part of the movie.

Out of curiosity, I asked one of my officemate to send me the E-book of the "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" which he happens to be reading because I wanted to know if the rumor that one of the main character will die is true. It took me a while before I got engrossed with the story. I had to make full use of Google and Wikipedia to know some of the characters and understand some words in the book. Of course, I know who the main characters are. I know who Harry, Hermione, Ron, Hagrid, and Albus Dumbledore is. But I didn't know who Ginny Weasley exactly is. I don't know what Muggle means. I also didn't know what "Avadra Kedavra" or "Occlumency" means. And that is where Google and Wikipedia came handy. Hahaha!

Anyways, I'm more than halfway of finishing the book and I can say that I am hooked. One minor character already died. I don't know if he's minor because from the very first Harry Potter book, he was there. Two more reasons that got me hooked are because of two passages in the book. One, a passage in the Bible is in that book. "Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also" from Matthew 6:21. Two, one statement of a major character's dialogue hit me and it took me a while to understand it. "You could claim that anything is real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist." J.K. Rowling put two sides on the book - one believer and the other skeptic. It's up to you who would you want to be. I don't know for sure if J.K. Rowling is a believer or a skeptic.

The book is more than just about wizards, witch, and magic (which I don't believe in and one of the main reason I didn't like Harry Potter). Again, it took me a while to realize that. But in order to enjoy the book as well as the other Harry Potter books, you need to have a child-like imagination which I already lost but now got it back. Thanks to Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling.