Inspiring courage in the face of ever growing danger, friendship when it"s easy to go your separate ways, and fighting to the death and beyond for what you believe in. A truly magical story (no pun intended but now that I mention it, it might as well be) that every child should read. Rowling creating something so thorough, and awe inspiring that I wouldn't be surprised if at some point in our lives this series turns out to be based on something going on that we are not currently aware of. A truly great example of the wanders the human brain can conceive. This will go down as one of the best series ever written in our time. I'm commenting on this book but I'm talking about the series as a whole. What a story, what a story, what a story. I hope the next one is as good as the previous ones. I’ve been very impressed with Jim Dale’s performance and the audiobooks as a whole for the HP series up to this point, but I unfortunately have to say this one took a BIG step backwards for me. Randomly throughout the story, there will be an extremely long unnecessary pause in between paragraphs that leads you to believe the app crashed or something.
I don’t know if this particular audiobook was rushed or something, but the editing is very odd in places. It’s described as light and airy, but the voice he gives her sounds like that gruff uncle whose had too much to drink at the New Year’s Eve party. If you’re listening to all the books in order, it’s very jarring to hear everyone suddenly pronouncing the character’s name differently. It wouldn’t be a big deal if it wasn’t SO inconsistent from the other readings he’d done. But suddenly in this book Dale pronounces the T at the end VERY prominently. Rowling herein has said that’s how it’s pronounced. For the previous 4 books, Dale has pronounced “Voldemort” with a silent “T” in a very French manner. But the audiobook made some strange choices with the recording and narration that really took me out of the story.
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