Harry Potter

Well, it's been ages since I've done a post or had time to work on this project. But I'm back, and rereading my favorite series- Harry Potter. With the final movie coming out in less than two weeks, it's about time that I started my reread. I'm looking forward to and dreading this movie. I realized that this is the last time I'll be rereading the series in preparation for a book or movie premiere. (With Pottermore, it looks like the next time I read the series will be in a different medium.)


I'm also going to time myself. I did this last summer when I reread them, and I think it would be cool to see how accurate that time was and/or if I could beat it. So, just for the record, it was approximately 44 hours last time.


Here is a key for the abbreviations that I'll be using. I've used these for years, and they've just become habit.
JKR: J.K. Rowling
SS/PS: Sorcerer's Stone/Philosopher's Stone
CoS: Chamber of Secrets
PoA: Prisioner of Azkaban
GoF: Goblet of Fire
OotP: Order of the Phoenix
HBP: Half-Blood Prince
DH: Deathly Hallows


I'm also going to post every night with an update. It might just be how much I read that day or it could be some new connection I found. What I'm marveling today is the connections that JKR pulled through the entire series. Sirius Black, a character that we don't meet until PoA, is mentioned on page 14 of SS. Hagrid mentions three magical families- "the McKinnons, the Bones, [and] the Prewetts" on page 56. The McKinnons' deaths were again mentioned in DH in Lily's letter to Sirius. Susan Bones is sorted only a few chapters later in SS. And the Prewetts were Molly Weasley's brothers. JKR has connections and threads through the entire series that can caught with many rereads of the series.


Pages read: 179/4195
Time read: 1 hr, 28 min, 56 sec