What Does One Read After Harry Potter?!

S

sparrow

Cathlete
Okay so I realize that I am *seriously* late to the Harry Potter party but I just finished OOtP and HBP and I finally see what all the fuss is about. I was positively mesmerized by these two books, and now find myself at a total loss as to what to read next! I feel as if I've been excommunicated from the world of wizards and magic!! :( I have a stack of books to read but am totally not motivated by any of them.

SPOILER BELOW!!










I refuse to believe that Snape is not Dumbledore's man!! He is my favorite character and I'm clinging to the hope that the whole thing will be sorted out in book 7!!

Sparrow


Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow - what a ride!’ — Peter Sage
 
I love the Harry Potter books, too, and have been hard put to find something that I love as much. Lately I've been hooked by the Amber Chronicles, by Roger Zelazny. There are 10 books--they're out of print separately, but you can get them all in the Great Book of Amber, which I found in Barnes and Noble. It's a fantasy/mystery series--I couldn't put it down once I started it. Have to warn you that it's much, much more adult themed than Potter, however. Anyhow, that's my current book that I'm obsessing about! }(

****SPOILER WARNING*******











Do you think that Dumbledore is actually dead? There are lots of theories floating around about that! And I agree with you about Snape. :)
 
****SPOILER WARNING****

Rowling has said unequivocably that Dumbledore is dead. And I agree about Snape too. I don't know what the explanation is, but there's no way I'm believing that Dumbledore was wrong about him.

Sparrow, you said you read OotP and HBP, but have you read the first four books in the series?
 
Shelley, I did! I read the 1st when it came out and the others over the last couple of years. I enjoyed them and thought they were really well written but was not moved by them as I was the last two. I think it has something to do with Harry, Herminone and Ron being older and dealing with more adult issues. I was crying at the end of HBP!

SPOILER!!!

As for Dumbledore being dead, I think he is gone for good. Bringing him back would be too contrived, IMO. And, as Shelley says, JKR has said he's absolutely gone. I know this because I spent quality time on Mugglenet.com last night. :D

Sparrow

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow - what a ride!’ — Peter Sage
 
S
P
O
I
L
E
R
S







I still think that Snape will turn out to be a good guy--it would seem anti-climactic if he turned out to be a bad guy after all, especially since Ron's suspected him of being a baddie so many times and we were SUPPOSED to think that something was up with him... Ms. JKR's set things up pretty cleverly :).

And she did confirm at a Q&A recently that Dumbledore is dead and not coming back :(. I had a feeling she might do that--in every "hero's journey" story, the hero's mentor ALWAYS dies before his big confrontation with the villain, and it would seem wrong somehow if he came back to life. I was shocked, though, that she killed him off in the sixth book--I thought for sure she'd do it in book 7. I'm really, really interested to see what she'll do in book 7. Harry's going to have his hands full, I bet!

Any guesses on the horcruxes (horci? What IS the plural form LOL?)? I think one of them we can pretty much assume is the locket that was at Grimmauld Place that Harry found (I think it was Harry--could have been someone else, I'll have to check) in OotP when they were cleaning up the place in the beginning of the book. Remember, it was big and heavy and he couldn't open it? And the initials in the note at the cave were "RAB," so I think that's pretty much a dead giveaway that it was Regulus Black and that he had brought the locket to Grimmauld Place...

Anyway, try as I might I can't think of what the last horcrux might be. For a long time I thought that it might be Harry himself, or even Ginny, but after reading again and again about how a horcrux is supposed to work, I'm not so sure anymore.

Plus JKR keeps hinting that there is something no one has been able to guess yet, and I'm dying to know what it is. She is such a tease ;).

Jennifer
 
Btw, if you guys haven't discovered it, I highly recommend visiting "The Leaky Cauldron" (www.the-leaky-cauldron.org) regularly. I get my HP fix there and many times they scoop the mainstream news outlets when they get news :).

Jennifer (who's been a teeny bit obssessed with this Harry Potter thing for the last 5 years)
 
I am so glad J K Rowling wrote these books since they have turned so many kids back onto reading. And I am sorry, since I know all you ladies love these books and I am happy for you, but I am heartily sick of Harry Potter. I take my kids to see the films and my eldest daughter has every volume and now the little one is reading them too, which is great. I don't restrict their reading ever. But, I just can't stand the goody-two-shoes image of Harry any longer. He never loses anything, wins all championships, always turns up smelling like a rose and it pisses me off! I much prefer Fred and George and I would love to read a book about Hermione! Dumbledore is one of my fave characters because he seems way more "real" than HP. At least the HBP is more interesting than the rest since it leaves the insular little world of Harry and his heroism and delves into teenage angst and relationships between people, which always interests me more.

Glad you love them but come on, there is a whole world of reading out there!

Since you love HP, try Wilkie Collins' novel "The moonstone". I think you will like it. 19th century mystery and adventure all rolled into one.

Anyway, whatever you read, enjoy your books! Love, love, love books.

Clare :) :) :) :) :)
 
But Clare, Harry makes mistakes too. And his life is not a bowl of cherries. He is, after all, an orphan. And the object of He Who Must Not Be Named's ire.

I agree that Dumbledore is dead. I furthermore agree that Snape must be a good guy. I can't see Dumbledore being that wrong.

I spent the last 2 1/2 hours cleaning out my DS's room and found all 6 of his Harry Potter books. What do you read after Harry Potter? You read them all again, which I better get started doing, before he decides he wants to take them to his new home.
 
Haven't been so absorbed by books since Junior High.

Now I am reading Dean Koontz. They take you to so many different places and are pretty far out there sometimes. I enjoy the challenge of having to remember what happened earlier in the book in order to put the pieces together.
 
i read DragonLance novels-magic and adventure. i like them so much that i read them all over again and its alot. i also enjoyed my seven book series of The Chronicals of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

laura
 
I love Harry Potter and I don't think there's anything quite like them out there, but I have enjoyed other series as well.

Tamora Pierce writes for young girls and all of her heros are young women who make the most of what they have - some have magic some do not. I bought her books for my daughter and ended up loving them myself. Start with the Lioness series - they are a little youngish, but they're a good quick read. She gets better as the different series go on but if you start with the earlier ones, you have a better idea of what is going on in the "world".

Terry Goodkind's "Sword of Truth" series is a great read and one I've really been enjoying. It's more of an epic tale along the lines of the "Lord of the Rings" and he tends to go on and on and on at times (he has 11 books out right now - most of which are over 800 pages) but I really like the characters - especially Kahlan - who is a strong female lead and the hero loves her for her strength. And the sheer size of this series will give you something to do while you're waiting for the 7th HP book to come out.

And of course, "The Lord of the Rings"... Of which I am even more fond than Harry Potter... I did not see all three movies as I think they miscast Aragorn so badly that I can't get past that.

The Tamora Pierce books come closest to the Harry Potter books, even though they are set in a completely different world in about the 14th century. And I think I'll be going back and reading them while I'm waiting for my new books to arrive. LOL.
 
Sparrow, you've read The Lord of the Rings, right? Even if you haven't visited them since youth, now is the time! :) I love Harry Potter, too, but to me, the HP series is really LOTR "lite." :7 :7

Marie
 
I absolutely LOVE the "Sword of Truth" series. The latest book was recently released in hardback. I guess I'll have to wait a year for it to come out in paperback. This is such a GREAT read!

I also love Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series. However, I wish he kept it to 7 books instead of the estimated 12? IMHO, he's just stretching it out too much.

Lorrayne
 
>Sparrow, you've read The Lord of the Rings, right? Even if
>you haven't visited them since youth, now is the time! :) I
>love Harry Potter, too, but to me, the HP series is really
>LOTR "lite." :7 :7
>
>Marie

Marie, I HAVEN'T believe it or not, but not for lack of trying. I started it years ago and it didn't grab me.

Does this mean I forfeit my "We Be Geeks" membership? :D

Sparrow

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow - what a ride!’ — Peter Sage
 
My kids have seen all the movies but have not read the books. I have read all of them. To keep from getting so impatient for book 7 we have started to listen to them on tape/cd from the library. Now my kids can get more out of the movies, and I won't lose my voice reading to them. It has been so much fun listening and the guy reading has a great range of character voices! I love it!! We haven't watched TV in a week, and we are only on the Prisoner of Azkaban. It has been so much fun, I get the kids to help out with the threat of no Harry Potter til the floor is swept! They have been on their best behavior. The best way to spend the last weeks before school starts.
Colleen
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Our Newsletter

Get awesome content delivered straight to your inbox.

Top