Alas poor xxxxxxxxxx....

I just finished the latest Harry Potter book. Note to self: in future do not read death scenes on the train. Trying not to cry whilst surrounded by harrassed commuters is not much fun.

So in the end I didn't cry when xxxxxxxx died. But it was certainly moving. No grand heroic self-sacrificing death and probably all the more real for that fact. And now the final book is set up to be a cracker. A quest novel with the confrontation to end all confrontations to look forward to at the end of it. And only 2 years or so to wait before it comes out.