Hardcover, 640 pages
Italian language
Published July 1, 2000 by Salani Editore.
E' un momento cruciale nella vita di Harry Potter: ormai è un mago adolescente, vuole andarsene dalla casa dei pestiferi Dursley, vuole sognare la cercatrice del Corvonero per cui ha una cotta tremenda... E poi vuole scoprire quali sono i grandiosi avvenimenti che si terranno a Hogwarts e che riguarderanno altre due scuole di magia e una grande competizione che non si svolge da cento anni. Harry Potter vuole davvero essere un normale mago di quattordici anni. Ma sfortunatamente, Harry non è un mago normale. E stavolta la differenza può essergli fatale.
I realize the #Harry_Potter has been out for more than a decade, perhaps 2 decades at this point. I tried to read them to my kids when they were little, but unfortunately they were not very interested. Now I have read them by myself.
What an imagination #Rowling has. I am going to find more of her books to read. I also have learned recently that she has been writing under a few different pen names.
After the very eerie ending of the third book, this one is quite light-hearted for the most part. What's new is that people are now being killed as part of the plotline, and much of Voldemort's reign of terror is revealed.
The plot is well-constructed (as would be expected), but Rowling's knack of introducing a new basic form of magic in every book and then overusing it as a plot device becomes slightly annoying here. Still, this is the last book that relies on an overarching plot, and should be enjoyed as such.
