The Pain of Finding out you have to change topics to Harry Potter a day before the post is due...

I would like to start this post by saying that Harry, as someone in "HP 7" described Bathilda Bagshot, is "nutty as squirrel poo!" He has so many internal issues, and JK Rowling really should have fleshed them out better.

Harry is parentless. This proves bad on few levels. In the material world, Harry didn't know what the fairy tale book in the the story had anything to do with their quest. And this was really bad, because it took them half of the book to find out about them. And I like how Hermione is the one who figured it out, and she's muggle born!!!!!

On the other hand, Harry lacks the parental guidance he needs to be a grownup. His parents would have showed him, but without them he's stuck in the 11 year old mind state he had when he entered Hogwarts. Not good! He's impulsive, but this brings me to another theme I noticed.

Harry's dad's friends, such as Lupin and Sirius, are like fathers to him. They lived on, so that he could grow up learning lessons from each one of them. The only issue is they all died, so he is basically tight, because he had a father figure, and he got deaded(killed) in the battle for Hogwarts.

A Great Perhaps

"Looking For Alaska". Three words that sound like the worst book ever. I mean, who would want to read about an explorer looking for a state that no one cares about?

Wait. That's not what the books about. At all.

Miles Halter(Pudge) is attending a new boarding school. The weird thing is his parents have no idea why, because Pudge is friendless, and who wants to go boarding school anyway? Immediately after arriving at school he meets his roommate,The Colonel, who given his living situation, is insanely smart. But more importantly he meets the the books namesake, Alaska.

Alaska is everything Miles is not. She drinks cheap wine, and smokes entire cartons of cigarettes. She is the master of pranks at their boarding school. But for some strange reason, Miles falls in love.

Miles' reason for going to boarding school ties in with his obsession for memorizing peoples' last words. Francois Rabelais said "I go to seek a great perhaps" and while trying to hold back tears a realize that I'm in 8th grade.

Next year, we'll all be going to different schools, meeting new people, like Alaska or the Colonel, and most importantly we'll be leaving 51 behind. There's a scene in Charlotte's Web where Charlotte's children go off into the world to build their own webs. Even though Francois Rabelais' "great perhaps" was death, my great perhaps is a new world.

Going off into high school wont be easy, but I don't think dying was easy either. We are just like Charlotte's children. We are venturing out into the world to build our own webs, although Rabelais' words were mor poetic. "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." No one could have said it any better.