Books That Made Me Cry...

I don't usually cry while watching movies, or while reading books because I always, somehow, manage to find something to laugh about; I always find a sliver of humor while everyone else around me cries their eyes out. I don't know how I do it, maybe I'm heartless or just have a talent for it. One way or another, I hardly cry for shows, movies, or books.

A good example could be the first time I watched Titanic; (I watched it with my mom). We're watching the last 10-15 minutes of the movie; when Rose is clinging to the headboard while Jack is in the freezing cold water. I'm sitting there, close to tears, when Rose realizes that Jack has frozen to death, but then she says, "I'll never let you go, Jack," before prying his fingers from her hand and lets him sink to the bottom of the ocean....Tears were gone. The very ending kind of choked me up (when Rose and Jack meet again in death) but no tears were shed. My mother on the other hand, was bawling.

Yeah....I just hate to cry so I'm not totally heartless...I don't think. So, anyway, here are 4 books that made me cry.

                                                                      WARNING: SPOILERS!

1.  if i stay by Gayle Forman

I cried twice while reading this book. The first time, was when Teddy died. The second, when Mia's grandfather told her that it was okay for her to let go of life, if she wanted to. This is a book that will take your heart and twist it until you think it might shatter. The book is so realistic it's scary.
 Mia's family gets in a car crash and everyone dies, except her, leaving her to choose to live without her family, or follow them in death.
 When Teddy died, I immediately thought of my brother. What if my family got in a car crash and I was left to make a choice as difficult as Mia? Then, when Mia's in the hospital, Mia's grandfather comes to tell her that he understands if she doesn't want to live. He tells her it's okay to follow the rest of her family if it's truly what she wants in a heart-wrenching scene.
It was so horribly sweet.


2.  The City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare 

 I cried when Simon lost his memories, and a few paragraphs before when Clary started to realize what was happening--that Simon was actually giving up his memories of the Shadowhunter world, including his memories of Clary. As we all know, Simon and Clary became friends since kindergarten and have hardly left each others sides since.
 So when Simon offered up his memories, and his immortality, to Magnus's demon father to save them all and send them home, I was freaking out. I was crying and couldn't sit still. I would read a few sentences, get up and walk around while holding the book with tears running down my face, then read a little further before repeating the process until I finished the book.
 The ending broke my heart because I couldn't imagine my own best friends (I have 3) losing their memories of me. If they lost all recollection of our time together, everything would be lost. I would remember them and our time together, but they wouldn't remember me at all. It would just be too horrible...


3.  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

 I could pick this book up right now, flip to the chapter that made me cry, read it again and feel sad all over again. I've read the chapter where Harry pours Snape's memories into the Pensieve so many times that I've lost count. I love the chapter where Harry walks through Snape's memories. It gives us a better understanding to what kind of man Snape was. It gives us an understanding to his life and how he's become the man he is, and how he thinks.
 What really gets me every time is when Snape finds Lily's body. He cries for his loss, the woman that he loved and loves, rocking back and forth with her in his arms.
 Every time I watch this part in the movie, I get goosebumps. 


4. Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare

 When Jem returns to the London Institute to say good-bye to Will and Tessa, it hurt. It really hurt.
 Jem is my favorite character, probably ever, so when he became a Silent Brother and his personality started to change....it hurt. But not as much as when he came back to say good-bye to the two people he loves.
 We read from Tessa's perspective when Jem comes back to talk to her, feeling her emotions as Jem tells her why he chose to become a Silent Brother, and tells her that he's sorry that now he cannot marry her--that he must break their promise to each other. He also speaks of the loss of the life they could have had together, if he hadn't died so quickly.
 Then, we read from Will's perspective when Jem finds him in the training room. Before Jem leaves, he tells Will that he's always with him, fighting along side him, and that they would always have a connection.  
 "When you walk in the world, I will be the light at your side, the ground steady under your feet, the force that drives the sword in your hand. We are bound, beyond the oath. It merely gave words to something that existed already."

So that's it. Those are the books that made me cry. Click on the titles and it will take you to the reviews of those books <3

Battle of Hogwarts

Today is May 2nd....It's been 17 years since the battle of Hogwarts. 

R.I.P. to all those who died during the fight

LOL! Hope all you serious HP fans don't take this seriously and raise your wands :P
Have a good day,

J.K. Rowling Wrote a New Short Story About Harry Potter

Calling all witches and wizards!

OMG! I am ecstatic!!! I just read J.K. Rowling's new short story on Pottermore.com! Finally, after years of waiting, we get further insight into what happens after the Epilogue of the final Harry Potter book (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows).

This is the first thing that Rowling has released about the duo since the Deathly Hallows! It's been 7 years! And some of our questions are finally answered.

J.K. Rowling has taken to writing for the Daily Prophet as Rita Skeeter on Pottermore.com. The short story is set at the Quidditch World Cup, and is titled: DUMBLEDORE'S ARMY REUNITES AT QUIDDITCH WORLD CUP FINAL.

She talks about some of Dumbledore's Army, and naturally is her normal gossip-self as she questions every little thing that they do, or don't do. She bashes most of the characters in some way, as she normally does when someone becomes a subject in her gossip column, keeping true to her character.

Aaaaand that's all I'm going to give away. You have to read the column yourself ;)

I'm so happy Rowling wrote this short story! Her writing stays true to her wonderful Harry Potter books; being the accurate, and annoying Rita Skeeter as she writes the gossip column for the Daily Prophet. Rita hasn't changed since the last time we heard from her.

Please write more J.K. Rowling!!!!!!!

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

Title: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (book #1)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (book #2)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (book #3)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (book #4)

Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix (book #5)

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (book #6)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (book #7)

Series: The Harry Potter series

Author: J.K. Rowling

Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.

Genre: Children, fiction, YA fiction, science fiction, fantasy

Age Range: 12+


Summary

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

One day just before his eleventh birthday, an owl tries to deliver a mysterious letter—the first of a sequence of events that end in Harry meeting a giant man named Hagrid. Hagrid explains Harry's history to him: When he was a baby, the Dark wizard, Lord Voldemort, attacked and killed his parents in an attempt to kill Harry; but the only mark on Harry was a mysterious lightning-bolt scar on his forehead.

Now he has been invited to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where the headmaster is the great wizard Albus Dumbledore. Harry visits Diagon Alley to get his school supplies, especially his very own wand. To get to school, he takes the Hogwarts Express from platform nine and three-quarters at King's Cross Station. On the train, he meets two fellow students who will become his closest friends: Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.

Harry is assigned to Gryffindor House at Hogwarts, and soon becomes the youngest-ever Seeker on the House Quidditch team. He also studies Potions with Professor Severus Snape, who displays a deep and abiding dislike for Harry, and Defense Against the Dark Arts with nervous Professor Quirrell; he and his friends defeat a mountain troll, help Hagrid raise a dragon, and explore the wonderful, fascinating world of Hogwarts.

But all events lead irrevocably toward a second encounter with Lord Voldemort, who seeks an object of legend known as the Sorcerer's Stone...

Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.

And strike it does. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockheart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny.

But each of these seem minor annoyances when the real trouble begins, and someone — or something — starts turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects...Harry Potter himself!

When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

For Twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort. Now he has escaped, leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed: Harry Potter's defeat of You-Know-Who was Black's downfall as well. And the Azkaban guards heard Black muttering in his sleep, "He's at Hogwarts ... he's at Hogwarts." Harry Potter isn't safe, not even within the walls of his magical school, surrounded by his friends. Because on top of it all, there may well be a traitor in their midst.

During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

You have in your hands the pivotal fourth novel in the seven part tale of Harry Potter's training as a wizard and his coming of age. Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup with Hermione, Ron, and the Weasleys. He wants to dream about Cho Chang, his crush (and maybe do more than dream). He wants to find out about the mysterious event that's supposed to take place at the Hogwarts this year, an event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened in a hundred years. He wants to be a normal, fourteen year old wizard. Unfortunately for Harry Potter, he's not normal - even by wizarding standards.

And in his case, different can be deadly.

Fourteen-year-old Harry Potter joins the Weasleys at the Quidditch World Cup, then enters his fourth year at Hogwarts Academy where he is mysteriously entered in an unusual contest that challenges his wizarding skills, friendships and character, amid signs that an old enemy is growing stronger.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

As Harry enters his fifth year at wizard school, it seems the bonds "of friendship and trust" have never been more sorely tested. Lord Voldemort's rise has opened a rift in the wizarding world between those who believe the truth about his return, and those who prefer to believe it's all madness and lies -- just more trouble from Harry Potter.

Add this to a host of other worries for Harry...

• A Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey
  
• A venomous, disgruntled house-elf
  
• Ron as keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team
  
• And of course, what every student dreads: end-of-term Ordinary Wizarding Level exams

...and you'd know what Harry faces during the day. But at night it's even worse, because then he dreams of a single door in a silent corridor. And this door is somehow more terrifying than every other nightmare combined.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

 The war against Voldemort is not going well; even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of the Daily Prophet, looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. 

And yet...

As in all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate -- and lose a few eyebrows in the process. The Weasley twins expand their business. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Classes are never straightforward, though Harry receives some extraordinary help from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince.

So it's the home front that takes center stage in the multilayered sixth installment of the story of Harry Potter. Here at Hogwarts, Harry will search for the full and complex story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort -- and thereby find what may be his only vulnerability.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  

You'll have to read it to find out!

Review

The Harry Potter series is definitely a series everyone should read, so if you haven't, go get them! It's a fun and magical read about family, friends, freedom, and a continuous battle between good and evil. 

J.K. Rowling did a fantastic job with this series! Really bringing it to life and sending a good message to young readers, and even adults. The writing is good, not too detailed though because it is a children's series (though enjoyable for all-ages). The plot throughout the series is well thought out. There are some parts in each book where it gets a little long and dull, but if you push through it it'll go back to being exciting.

I thought that the fifth book (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) was dragged out to the point that is was dull, but all the other books will keep you sucked in until the last page. My favorites out of the series are Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. There are a few swear words throughout the series but nothing too bad and not that many, they show up very rarely (mostly in the beginning books of the series).

You really connect with all of the characters, and there are so many that you can relate with one if not more. The creatures in this series are also really cool, dragons, centaurs, mermaids, giants, and more. This series really lets your imagination go wild.

If you've seen the movies, you'll love the books even more.