Deathly Spoilers

Day Two of the vacay and I've already finished the Harry Potter book. I totally cracked out on it. And I'm not alone. There are at least (AT LEAST) 50 people at the pool reading this book. It is quite literally everywhere you look. We're like a little club. We greet each other with, "What page are you on?"

The first , ohh...400 pages or so can best be summed up by the words at the top of page 292:
"Harry could not help wondering whether they had only agreed to come on what now felt like a pointless and rambling journey because they thought he had some secret plan that they would learn in due course." Yes, JK, that's exactly what we were thinking.

Eventually, things came back around and the most excellent and satisfying chapter is "The Prince's Tale."

I would have liked the end a lot better had JK Rowling bothered to come up with one of her own rather than nicking the one from the Gospel of Luke. (In case you're wondering whether Harry lives or dies, the answer is yes.) But what's done is done and at least she ties up all the lose ends in a nice, shiny bow for us.

Now I guess I'll spend the rest of the week reading People and Us Weekly. I hear Katie Holmes is happier than she's ever been before.