Harry Potter (don't read if you don't want to see spoilers)

Although I'd watched a few of the Harry Potter movies, I never really understood why the books are so popular. As my colleague, Sab, started reading the books recently, I asked if I could borrow and then, most of these past two weekends have been spent reading them. Haven't finished the books on hand but it's been enjoyable so far. I'm sure I'll enjoy the Goblet of Fire because I liked the last movie. The fifth.. was a bit long and I watched it with a heavy heart..

So it was 21st July yesterday. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released worldwide and I didn't preorder. Sab smsed me yesterday afternoon on the ending and I checked out the summary online. Although I'm rather happy that Rowling didn't kill the kids, (I thought that she'd kill Ron or something), I'm a bit sad that Snape died. He's one of my favourite characters because of the ambiguity -- why did he kill Dumbledore? why did he dislike Harry so much but still protected him? was he really loyal towards Voldemort/Dumbledore? ..?

Then I read that towards the end of the book, he'd extracted part of his memories for Harry and we got to know that he had loved his mother, Lily, from a long, long time ago. That's why the fact that "Harry's got his mother's eyes" is so important.

Sigh, anyway, I don't think I've been so into such storybooks since a long time ago. =P

p.s. the actor who plays Snape is Alan Rickman, who was in Love Actually! Looks so different, man!