March 11

Reading Journal

 

 

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Harry Potter Series

By J.K. Rowling

Since Chinese New Year I have started reading Harry Potter series, now I am on the fourth book: Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire. The reason why I chose this series was though I have already watched all the movies, the novels give me more details and more space of imagination. Though the movies present us a better visual experience with the help of the music and all the techniques of the movie making; the books give me more space to imagine and to make up the scene by myself. This series is so attractive that I cannot stop reading after I starting the first chapter of the first book. Comparing to the previous three books, the opening chapter of the fourth one is more dark and thrilling, it leads the readers into an old and deserted house which never shows up before. The opening chapter also settled the tone of this novel—- exciting and heroic. As this is the fourth year of Hogwarts, the characters are growing up, as they become more mature, various emotions are added to their friendship and love; besides exciting adventure, this novel has more layers of emotions than the previous one—- envy, distrust, scare, regret, excitement and most importantly—love, all of the emotions mix together make it more than just a book, it leads the readers to a different world. The characters in Harry Potter series all have vivid characteristics, the build of the characters gets the novel out of just adventures, you can see the same types of people in your own life, it connects the book and the readers’ life tightly.

If I can step into the book, which is the thing I would like to; I really want to experience exactly the same adventures as Harry and his friends’, however, I don’t think I have the courage to do most of the things they did. But I think just like the other Harry Potter fans in the world, the desire of being in Harry Potter world comes from the touching by the love in the novels as well as the movies.