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My favorite line in the first book was “Are you a witch or aren’t you?” from Ron when he was being attacked by the plant, and in this one, Hermione got to yell “Are you a wizard or aren’t you?”

By happy circumstance, I had just finished Book 1 before I started reading Book 7. It was amazing to me how many of the events in the last book referred back to the first. There were so many of them....

I was seriously struck by this when they cam to the riddle at the door of Ravenclaw's common room -- "What came first, the phoenix or the flame?" And the answer: "a circle has no beginning or end."

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I was seriously struck by this when they cam to the riddle at the door of Ravenclaw's common room -- "What came first, the phoenix or the flame?" And the answer: "a circle has no beginning or end."

Every book is a circle. They all began and ended at the Dursleys, except the last which was a circle encompassing the entire series.

As in life, the journey is more important than the destination.

[Maigrey]

I almost thought they were trying to quote Duran Duran.. but it wasn’t quite it.

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Another example of things going full circle:

Harry arrived at Number 4 Privit Drive via Hagrid and Sirus’ flying motorcycle.

He left the same way.