I don't really have all that much to say without starting a headlong ramble into minutia. I started reading the books after Goblet of Fire came out, and quickly became a big fan. Goblet of Fire was my favorite, and I think the books went downhill from there, possibly because the desire for secrecy before publishing dates may have meant less outside editing. I still cried at the end of Half Blood Prince, but I was fairly dissapointed when I finished Deathly Hallows. So many, many hints and good story avenues, just abandoned. After all, wasn't that what the fans loved, looking for the hints, guessing where we would go next.
I never really became involved in the Harry Potter chat rooms, but I did become a follower of one particular site, http://redhen-publications.com/Potterfics.html . I was highly influenced by these articles; most of the theories are bang-on, and the ones that are not should be, they would have made a better story. I also particularly liked one of the fan-fiction stories at http://redhen-publications.com/files_to_post/Publications/GoldenAge.pdf . Light reading, provacative ideas. But it heavily skews the way I look at the story now. I really felt its influence as I watched the latest movie, found several "honorable" characters as fairly repulsive.
I pretty much put away the Harry Potter books after the final installment, not least of all because of the strong christian narative in the sagas ending. This was not a total surprise. Ms. Rowling had said that the story was a christian story, and commentators such as Rev. John Granger had found considerable of christian symbolism in with obvious alchemy lesson. But Deathly Hallows was just too much for me. So Harry Potter went the way of the Narnia books when I was little. Yes, I did go to the midnight opening of the movie. So sue me, I'm weak. I would probably go to the Narnia movies too if they were any good.
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