the late night ramblings of someone who stuck with harry until the very end.

i have finished the book. i feel peaceful. and hopeful. and stronger, somehow.

love. friendship. faith. trust. courage. loyalty. sacrifice. grace.

these themes provoked something deep inside me while i was reading the book. i think it is something deeper than simply feeling a connection with the characters. i sobbed my heart out as the characters i have grown close to acted out these themes, not because i "love" them but because part of me realises how deeply applicable parts of the story are to my own life. perhaps i was created to react deeply to these themes the way i did. i love to see them acted out (yes, even in the lives of fictional characters :), and i yearn for these things to come into fruition more and more in my own life.

so yea. read harry potter, all of them. maybe i am trying to read more into it than there is. or maybe there is more. see for yourself!

i will leave you with two things that have stuck with me in my head as i read harry's last story:

Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm;
for love is as strong as death,
its ardor unyeilding as the grave.
It burns like a blazing fire,
like a mighty flame.

Many waters cannot quench love;
rivers cannot wash it away.
If one were to give
all the wealth of his house for love,
it would be utterly scorned.
- Song of songs 8:6-7, the Bible.

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
- page 266, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Matthew 6:21, the Bible.