Odd Harry Potter Dream...

The dream began from a transition from another dream I was having prior, of which I can't remember the details, but somehow I wound up in a Christian bookstore, sitting on a white, carpeted spiral staircase surrounded by books. It was actually a pretty cool looking bookshelf arrangement. Anyway, I'm not sure why I was there, but I was sort of browsing around the books when I happened upon a Harry Potter book (Half Blood Prince) on the shelf. I thought it odd that there was a Harry Potter book in a Christian bookstore because of the witchcraft/black magic controversy. Anyway, I looked around some more and noticed that Harry Potter books were in several other places in the store. I then saw the 7th book, The Deathly Hollows. It had a black cover with an illustration drawn in white on the cover, but I can't remember what it was. For some reason, instead of becoming immediately excited, purchasing it, and leaving to read the book, I flipped to the last chapter. JK Rowling has gone on the record saying that the last chapter of the last book was to be an epilogue, stating what would happen to the surviving characters of the series later in life. Knowing this, I was curious to read the ending (thus spoiling the series, something which goes against my nature, but I digress.)

The chapter began by describing Voldemort sitting on a beach in the Carribean and sipping a cocktail, as cities collapsed and burned to the ground. It went in to graphic detail describing how, after the dark wizard naturally defeated Harry in battle, he used magic to fashion Harry's lungs into a new organ on his own body; one that would constantly keep applying sun tan lotion on his skin while he sunbathed in the midst of all the chaos and desolation. It later went on to tell that almost all of the good wizards from the series had died during the last battle. The ones who survived went into hiding and lived a life of despair. The only character who lives a semi-normal life after the series is Hermione, who did the only rational thing there was to do, which was give up witchcraft all together and begin to lead a magic-less life among the muggles. Ultimately, the moral of the Harry Potter series was that witchcraft and magic is evil and unholy, and that pursuing an interest in such only leads to bad outcomes. I suddenly realized why Harry Potter had appeared in a Christian bookstore overnight, timed with the release of the final book. I could not believe what I was reading. Years of following the series resulted in such a depressing ending.

I don't remember much about what happened after I read the final chapter of book seven, but the dream stuck with me for most of today, so I felt as if I should share it with people.