Harry Potter 7:

We all knew that this day would come, but silently none of us wanted to be the one to write it.
If you have not yet read the book, I strongly suggest reading the book first, and then read my view of the subject.

My view (A.K.A. the right way to think):

The book starts off killing people, so you know what kind of stuffs gonna happen in the book, especially with it being the last book. I mean, neither can live while the other survives? one of ums gonna die.

I never expected harry to actually just be able to waltz off freely to go find horcruxes, so the incident at the wedding was no suprise.

I thought that the threesome group would have different places to stay though. but i'm not sure what i imagined.

i never really expected ron to leave just like that, but like Loren said, they were getting older and a lot more tempermental. i guess it's to be expected. the reason Dumbledore left Harry the sword was pretty obvious i think. why else give harry a sword in a world of magicians?

I still dont see how the group could get out of the ministry alive like that. for one, it wasn't a very well-thought-out plan. I didn't get the whole thing with the ministry really. before i saw the 5th movie, i had a whole different view on what the ministry of magic looked like, so when i imagined the whole thing in my head, it got confusing.

Godric's Hallow. i feel really stupid admitting this, but i never found the connection of Godric Gryffindor and Godric's Hallow. i would have been to scared to go to the grave when they did. I couldnt think of how Harry was gonna get out of the whole thing when hermione broke his wand. after all the wand had done in the beginning of the book and in the 4th book.

The Deathly Hallows. When I heard what the book was going to be called, I assumed that "Hallows" meants Halloween. It seemed to fit. I guess I was wrong. When it said that Voldemort was after the Elder Wand, I thought for sure he was going to go after all of the Hallows. If he would've gotten 'em, it could've turned bad. It also said that whomever owned all the Hallows could cheat death itself, and tecnically Harry had all the Hallows and he cheated death. The book puts together different mysteries pretty good.

Dumbledore said that Voldemort never had a friend and probably will never want one, he is very independent. Than why would Voldemort trust a part of his soul in the Lestrange's vault? o well.

The war of Pigpimples, i mean Hogwart, was to be expected. I also knew lots of good people had to die in a war. Many kids wrote to Rowling asking, no pleading her not to kill off there favorite charachters. Rowling replied "People die, and life goes on for the living." that opened new doors to what might happen in the book.

Dumbledore told Harry that one of the horcruxes might be a possesion of Ravenclaw's or Gryffindor's. Once I thought of the idea of Slytherin's heir trusting his soul in a possesion of Gryffindor's it was obvious that it had to be Ravenclaw's. how harry killed the tiara though, was very unexpected.

Snape. Snape Snape Snape Snape Snape. that was a shocker. after reading the 5th and 6th books over, i had theories of snape being on our side, but not for those reasons. i really think that dumbledore took advantage of snape over his love life. but i didn't feel sorry. who would (besides you charity)? it was also a shocker that dumbledore had most of these things planned. he came off looking really smart throughout the books, but this reaches a new level. and it was weird reading about dumbledores personal life never really thought about it much.

Harry? a Horcrux!? never much thought about it, but now it makes sense. that would take tons of courage just to walk up to Voldemort. let alone let him kill you. i would have lots of trouble keeping away thoughts of what would happen to everybody and everything.

the limbo that harry went into confused me alot. i had to read it over twice to get the main point out of it. so harry had a choice in the end to die and live (maybe that's the wrong word) with his parents and many people who he cared about, or to go back to that life that was painful, hurtful, scary, and dangerous. but he did. tough choice.

so harry comes back, and acts dead until the right moment. by the way, i was always attached to Neville. he was so funny and clumsy so i felt bad that he had to be in so much pain with the sorting hat on his head on fire.

then comes the "final battle". On an off-hand note, i think that it was really cool when mrs. weasley whooped bellatrixe's but. back to the final battle. i also had to think this one over. throughout the book harry keeps saying "i don't know why! what's that supposed to mean? why me?", but all of a sudden he's full of knowledge. when he said that it was Draco that had the elder wand, i got really confused and had to really think about it. but it makes sense, since draco de-wanded dumbledore and then his wand was the elder wand, then the wand "exepted" harry as the true owner or something like that. i really couldn't follow the wand explanations. i didn't try to hard though. i guess that just made voldemort scared, and harry got lucky and didn't have to use the killing curse. apparentley one of Voldemort's rebounded and got him good.

the epilogue. very cheesey. but i guess it was okay. not the best ending ever.

Death count:

i counted 13 somewhat main characters die (with the help of some other people):

1. Hedwig

2. Mad-eye Moody

3. Rufus Scrimgour (though i'm not sure if he counts)

4. Peter Pettigrew

5. Dobby:'(

6. Crabbe

7. Harry

8. Fred

9. Lupin

10. Tonks

11. Snape

12. Bellatrix Lestrange

13. Voldemort

please add on if there are more! sorry to make my views so long also. choose to comment or not. it's your choice.

We Lost Patches...AGAIN!:'( don't worry, we found him back

Lost, Season II :

So, here goes Patches' amazing tail. Dad, after "supposedly" forgeting to put Patches back on the pick-up once already, brought Patches with him to the ethanol plant. When he arrived back home, he noticed that Patches was not on back of the pick-up. Not a good sign.

The search:

So, dad went out searching for what he says was "an hour". After deciding that since he was going to wake up early any way, why not catch up on some sleep.

Found at last:

In the morning, some guys from the ethanol plant called and said "We think we got your dog". Dad went over and got the whole story.

What really happened:

Patches jumped off the pick-up. After dad had left, Patches went looking for him. In the search, Patches went through a barb wire fence, and into a 250ft.x250ft whole with slanted sides meant for storing "manure". Patches came home smelling like the ethanol plant, so dad gave him 3 bathes. Unfortunately, he still smells like the plant. We think it smells really bad, but I would shudder to imagine what it would smell like for a dog.

Patches' amazing swimming skills, the watchful eyes of plant workers, and pure luck saved Patches life this time.What ways will we think of to get rid of Patches next? Keep tuning in to find out!

We Lost Patches!:'(

We lost our gaurd dog, Patches, on Monday night, July 9th. My dad and I were on a farm outside Larchwood SD(for those of you who don't know where that is, it's 27 miles or 1/2 and hour away from here) checking on some of his cattle he was keeping there. Dad was in a conversation with the owner of the farm when I let Patches off of the pick-up thinking that dad would notice. So I went into the pick-up and read my book. Dad, however, did not notice this, and jumped into the pick-up and sped off to Rock Valley where we got some snow cones.

This is where we noticed that Patches was not on the back of the pickup. So we drove back to the farm and drove about a 5 mile radius of the farm. It was now around 9:30PM. Because of the oncoming darkness, we decided to give up and hope for the best tomorrow.

The next day we called about 5 of the surrounding area's police departments hoping that somebody would report them. It was that night around 8:30PM that we got a call from a person named Judy Morser saying that she had our dog. So my mother and I (dad was golfing) went to pick up Patches. When we got there, we learned that Patches had run a whole 11 miles over the last 24 hours. Boy, was he tired!

So that's Patches' amazing tail, I mean tale. - yes, that was a joke, you laugh now.

Vacation...sorta

Frome June 29 to July 2 I was visiting my friend's lakehouse. While I was down there it sounds like I missed out on a lot of fun. I wished I were here for the partying. But while you were partying, I was skiing and tubing. Here are some pictures...

- Me and Jackie on "Balboa Betty" playing Boggle

- Me skiing, I know , I look proffesional don't I?