Masih setengah jalan baca buku ini, karena alur ceritanya lamban, jadinya suka ngantuk kalo lagi baca buku ini. Tapi, sejauh yang gw baca, ceritanya bagus banget.

9. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

Masing setengah jalan juga baca buku ini, karena udah keduluan nonton filmnya yang versi BBC dan ada Colin Firth masih cakep gitu. Tapi, menurut gw, ini masterpiecenya Jane Austen. Very very romantic. Love u, Mr Darcy!

8. A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)

Baca buku ini pertama kali waktu SMU kelas tiga, gara-garanya kakak gw jadiin novel ini buat objek penelitiannya buat skripsi. Awalnya gw baca yang versi English: OH MY GOD! Ga ngerti satu kata pun! Gw ngerti sih yang diceritain Hemingway, tapi ga lengket di benak gw. Jadi suka confused gitu. Tapi setidaknya gw dengan sukses baca sepuluh halaman novel itu. Akhirnya, karena gw masih penasaran sama ceritanya, gw baca versi Indonesia, yang akhirnya dibeli kakak gw (biar lebih paham lagi, katanya): OH MY GOD! Ceritanya keren! Love story in the middle of war?? No need further explanation.

7. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (J. R. R. Tolkien)

Gw nonton filmnya dulu, baru baca bukunya: SO REGRET! Bingung banget deh. Pas lagi baca, muncul pertanyaan: Lho? Koq begini? Di filmnya kan begitu. Jadinya ga konsen. Tapi, sejauh yang gw baca, bagian perangnya keren! Sekeren filmnya! Dan bagian yang paling membosankannya pas perangnya udah selesai, bagian benah-membenahi kekacauannya. Saking bosannya buat gw, sampai sekarang gw belum baca dua bab terakhir.

6. Peter and Wendy (J. M. Berrie)

Masih setengah jalan baca buku ini, tapi gw suka ceritanya. Karena udah nonton Peter Pan (bukan versi Robin Williams), gw jadi berpendapat kalau filmnya standard aja, 3 out of 5 gold lah. Soalnya, di novel ini, kita bakalan bisa ngelihat lebih jelas lagi pandangan si Peter Pan mengenai orang dewasa, dan kenapa akhirnya dia never grow up. Terus, pas awal-awalnya, si Peter Pan emang kelihatan licik banget buat ngajak Wendy sama adik-adinya ke Neverland. Dan juga, karena udah nonton Peter Pan versi Robin Williams, gw ngerasa film itu tuh jelek banget. Soalnya si Peter Pan yang diperanin Robin Williams tuh pergi dari Neverland dan akhirnya grow up dan punya keluarga. Padahal, Peter Pan yang sebenarnya kan ga grow up. Udah jelas sejelas-jelasnya disebutkan di buku itu: “All children, except one, grow up.”

5. Princess Diaries Vol. X: Forever Princess (Meg Cabot)

Dari kesepuluh seri Princess Diaries, gw paling suka yang ini. Novel ini perfect ending buat gw. Dalam novel ini, gw baru ngelihat gimana si Michael Moscovitz akhirnya mati-matian berusaha buat ngedapetin Mia Thermopolis lagi. Hal yang jarang banget kelihatan di sebelumnya, dimana Mia yang kelihatan banget cintanya sama Michael, sementara si Michael, biasa-biasa aja.

4. A Walk to Remember (Nickolas Sparks)

Gw nonton filmnya dulu, baru baca bukunya. Dan ternyata, novelnya lebih keren (tipikal). Kalo di film, kelihatan banget kalo si cowok (gw udah lupa namanya) suka sama si cewek (gw juga lupa namanya) gara-gara si cewek itu tampil cantik pas pementasan drama itu. Tapi yang sebenarnya, si cowok suka sama si cewek setelah ngelewatin malam Natal sama cewek itu buat ngebantu anak-anak yatim piatu, yang kemudian akhirnya si cowok ngelihat si cewek dari sudut pandang yang berbeda, dan tersentuh dengan sikap yang ditunjukkan si cewek. Romantis banget ceritanya, gw aja nangis. Love Story (gw lupa karangan siapa, yang pasti filmnya pernah tayang di Metro TV dulu) aja masih kalah sama gw.

3. The Bartimaeus Trilogy: Ptolemy’s Gate (Jonathan Stroud)

Perfect ending also! Sebelumnya, gw rada kecewa sama karakter Nathaniel (salah satu karakter utama) yang berubah jadi sangat arogan. Padahal gw berharap dia bakalan berbeda dengan penyihir-penyihir lain yang haus kekuasaan dan sangat meremehkan para commoner dan juga daemon-daemon sebagai pelayan mereka. Ternyata, Nathaniel sama aja dengan penyihir-penyihir yang ga disukainya itu. Tapi, setelah gw baca lebih jauh lagi (sampai tamat pastinya), karakter Nathaniel berubah. Dia kembali jadi Nathaniel yang lebih mementingkan kepentingan orang banyak ketimbang kepentingannya sendiri. Bahkan, dia juga bersahabat baik dengan Bartimaeus, salah satu daemonnya yang melayani Nathaniel sejak awal sampai akhir buku ini. Walaupun di akhir cerita si Nathiel meninggal (gw sedih banget sebenarnya,walaupun tak menitikkan air mata), tapi dia nyelamatin nyawa Bartimaeus.

2. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (J. K. Rowling)

Dulu, setelah baca lima seri Harry Potter (masih menunggu yang keenam), gw paling suka sama yang nomor tiga ini. Bahkan, setelah baca yang nomor enam pun, gw masih suka sama yang ini. Dalam seri yang ketiga ini, Harry mengetahui segelintir masa lalu mengenai orangtuanya. Dan akhirnya, dia punya orangtua “pengganti”: Sirius Black. Gw nangis pas baca novel ini, pas bagian dia melawan para Dementor di danau itu buat nyelamatin Sirius.

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J. K. Rowling)

Setelah baca yang nomor tujuh ini, nomor tiga berubah posisinya di hati gw. Perfect ending! Gw ga peduli apa profesi Harry, Ron, Hermione, dan yang lainnya setelah Voldemort musnah. Yang penting buat gw: Harry punya keluarga (sama Ginny), Ron dan Hermione juga, Neville jadi guru Herbology (pelajaran favoritnya) dan juga Neville keren banget (membasni Nagini pake Gryffindor’s Sword, sama gantiin posisi Harry sebagai ketua di Dumbledore’s Army, dan orang yang paling percaya banget sama Harry), salah satu anaknya Harry dikasih nama Albus Severus (gw menitikkan air mata pas baca bagian ini), dan masih banyak lagi yang bikin gw seneng, termasuk endingnya Draco Malfoy.

Hadir di Penelope, diperankan oleh James McAvoy: keren banget!! Matanya biru banget, potongan rambutnya pas banget, semuanya keren!! No need further explanation, just watch the movie.

9. Legolas

Hadir di The Lord of the Rings trilogy karangan J. R. R. Tolkien. Peri paling lucu yang pernah gw temui. Dan keren pula! Bukan keren dari segi fisiknya, tapi keren dari cara dia berperang! Pas megang busur, ngalahin musuh-musuhnya, dan sebagainya itu. Persahabatannya dengan si manusia kerdil (lupa namanya) juga bikin karakternya lebih melekat di kepala gw.

8. Mr Darcy

Hadir di Pride and Prejudice karangan Jane Austen. Gentleman sejati! No need further explanation, baca aja novelnya (hehe). Apalagi kalo nonton filmnya, tapi yang versi BBC, yang diperanin sama Colin Firth waktu masih muda.

7. Peter Pan

Hadir di Peter and Wendy karangan J. M. Berrie. Lucu deh, siasatnya licik banget buat ngajakin Wendy ke Neverland. Alasannya buat menolak jadi dewasa sebenarnya logis banget, soalnya kalo jadi anak-anak itu sepertinya ga ada beban. Pengen deh punya teman kayak Peter Pan!

6. Peter Pevensie

Hadir di The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe dan Prince Caspian karangan C. S. Lewis. Muncul juga sih di buku ketiga The Horse and His Boy, tapi di buku ini dia udah dewasa dan masih memerintah Narnia. Lebih suka di buku kedua dan keempat itu, soalnya di sana dia masih anak-anak. Kalo di buku, sebenarnya biasa-biasa aja sih, soalnya buku C. S. Lewis ini terasa banget buat bacaan anak-anak (seperti baca The Series of Unfortunate Events karangan Lemony Snicket), jadi agak sedikit membosankan. Tapi, kalo dilihat di filmnya: OH MY GOD! No need further explanation, nonton aja filmnya. Bahkan, Prince Caspian yang paling cakep di filmnya pun masih belum bisa mengalahkan Peter Pevensie.

5. Nathaniel

Hadir di The Bartimaeus Trilogy karangan Jonathan Stroud. Di buku pertama, dia masih anak-anak lugu, yang berusaha meluruskan yang salah. Di buku kedua, dia sudah mulai agak sok, haus kekuasaan, dan memandang rendah daemonnya (bahkan para commoner). Di buku ketiga, dia sudah mulai merasa muak dengan identitas dirinya yang selama ini ditampilkannya kepada orang banyak. Akhirnya, dia mulai kembali berubah menjadi dirinya yang dulu lagi. Walaupun akhirnya dia meninggal (SO DISAPPOINTED!), tapi setidaknya dia sudah mulai bersahabat dengan Bartimaeus (daemon andalannya) dan mau mengorban nyawanya untuk daemon itu, dan akhirnya mendapat respect dari Bartimaeus sendiri, bahkan dari salah satu commoner, Kitty Jones.

4. Ron Weasley

Hadir di Harry Potter series karangan J. K. Rowling. Konyol, takut pada hal-hal tertentu (terutama laba-laba), mungkin kadang-kadang terlihat pengecut, tapi tindakan-tindakan kecilnya seperti: berkelahi dengan Malfoy, membela Hermione ketika cewek ini dikatai Mudblood, melindungi Ginny; pokoknya semua tindakan-tindakan kecilnya itu (kalo yang baca jeli) keren banget (to me)!

3. Dimitri

Hadir di Anastasia, diperankan (mungkin lebih tepatnya diisi suaranya, soalnya ini kan film animasi) oleh John Cusack. Konyol sekalee, tapi romantis juga!

2. Beast

Hadir di Beauty and the Beast. Kasar, arogan, kejam, dan sebagainya. Tapi, hatinya baik lho. Di antara semua film Disney, gw paling suka cowok yang satu ini. Kenapa? Karena, tidak seperti Prince Charming di Cinderella atau Prince Charming di Snow White and Seven Dwarfs yang biasanya berpangku tangan menanti kedatangan sang putri agar keadaan memungkinkan untuk mereka bersatu, Beast berani “bertindak” untuk mendapatkan hati sang putri. Bahkan, cowok yang di Ariel atau pangeran di Sleeping Beauty pun belum bisa menggantikan cowok ini di hati gw.

1. Michael Moscovitz

Hadir di Princess Diaries series karangan Meg Cabot. Speechless kalo ngomongin cowok yang satu ini. So just read the books, no need further explanation, I guess.

‘We’ve got ‘em now!’ cried PC Anderson excitedly. ‘That’s a dead end!’

Leaning hard on the steering wheel and crashing his gears, Fisher scraped half the paint off the flank of the car as he forced it up the alleyway in pursuit.

There in the headlights sat their quarry, stationary at last after a quarter of an hour’s chase. The two riders were trapped between a towering brick wall and the police car, which was now crashing towards them like some growling, luminous-eyed predator.

There was so little space between the car doors and the walls of the alley that Fisher and Anderson had difficulty extricating themselves from the vehicle. It injured their dignity to have to inch, crab-like, towards the miscreants. Fisher dragged his generous belly along the wall, tearing buttons off his shirt as he went, and finally snapping off the wing mirror with his backside.

‘Get off the bike!’ he bellowed at the smirking youths, who sat basking in the flashing blue light as though enjoying it.

They did as they were told. Finally pulling free from the broken wind mirror, Fisher glared at them. They seemed to be in their late teens. The one who had been driving had long black hair; his insolent good looks reminded Fisher unpleasantly of his daughter’s guitar-playing, layabout boyfriend. The second boy also had black hair, though his was short and stuck up in all directions; he wore glasses and a broad grin. Both were dressed in T-shirts emblazoned with a large golden bird; the emblem, no doubt, of some deafening, tuneless rock band.

‘No helmets!’ Fisher yelled, pointing from one uncovered head to the other. ‘Exceeding the speed limit by – by a considerable amount!’ (In fact, the speed registered had been greater than Fisher was prepared to accept that any motorcycle could travel.) ‘Failing to stop for the police!’

‘We’d have loved to stop for a chat,’ said the boy in glasses, ‘only we were trying -’

‘Don’t get smart – you two are in a heap of trouble!’ snarled Anderson. ‘Names!’

‘Names?’ repeated the long-haired driver. ‘Er – well, let’s see. There’s Wilberforce… Bathsheba… Elvendork…’

‘And what’s nice about that one is, you can use it for a boy or a girl,’ said the boy in glasses.

‘Oh, OUR names, did you mean?’ asked the first, as Anderson spluttered with rage. ‘You should’ve said! This here is James Potter, and I’m Sirius Black!’

‘Things’ll be seriously black for you in a minute, you cheeky little -’

But neither James nor Sirius was paying attention. They were suddenly as alert as gundogs, staring past Fisher and Anderson, over the roof of the police car, at the dark mouth of the alley. Then, with identical fluid movements, they reached into their back pockets.

For the space of a heartbeat both policemen imagined guns gleaming at them, but a second later they saw that the motorcyclists had drawn nothing more than -

‘Drumsticks?’ jeered Anderson. ‘Right pair of jokers, aren’t you? Right, we’re arresting you on a charge of -’

But Anderson never got to name the charge. James and Sirius had shouted something incomprehensible, and the beams from the headlights had moved.

The policemen wheeled around, then staggered backwards. Three men were flying – actually FLYING – up the alley on broomsticks – and at the same moment, the police car was rearing up on its back wheels.

Fisher’s knees bucked; he sat down hard; Anderson tripped over Fisher’s legs and fell on top of him, as FLUMP – BANG – CRUNCH – they heard the men on brooms slam into the upended car and fall, apparently insensible, to the ground, while broken bits of broomstick clattered down around them.

The motorbike had roared into life again. His mouth hanging open, Fisher mustered the strength to look back at the two teenagers.

‘Thanks very much!’ called Sirius over the throb of the engine. ‘We owe you one!’

‘Yeah, nice meeting you!’ said James. ‘And don’t forget: Elvendork! It’s unisex!’

There was an earth-shattering crash, and Fisher and Anderson threw their arms around each other in fright; their car had just fallen back to the ground. Now it was the motorcycle’s turn to rear. Before the policemen’s disbelieving eyes, it took off into the air: James and Sirius zoomed away into the night sky, their tail light twinkling behind them like a vanishing ruby.

Mama gw suka “Lovebug” nya Jonas Brothers … nah lho.

Waktu itu gw lagi dengerin “Lovebug” nya Jonas Brothers, kebetulan mama gw lagi ada dalam kamar. Terus dia bilang gini, “Siapa yang nyanyi nih, Mi?”

“Jonas Brothers,” jawab gw.

“Siapa tu?” tanya mama gw.

“Itu tuh,” kata gw, sambil nunjukin poster Jonas Brothers yang ada dalam kamar gw.

“Oh, band baru ya?” tanya mama gw.

“Mmm. Udah lumayan lama lah. Kenapa emangnya, Ma?” gw balik nanya.

“Ga, lain dari yang lain aja musiknya. Ga kayak band-band baru sekarang,” jawab mama gw. “Kayak musik-musik lama.”

Duh, si Mama. Kalo yang rada old aja, baru ngeh.

Geez. I have a BAD DAY!!

Rencananya hari ini gw mau donlot novel Huckleberry Finn buat Tya. Eh, ga tahunya warnet langganan and udah jadi favorit gw (maaf tidak bisa membeberkan nama tempat dan lokasinya) mengalami error yang bikin gw kesal banget. Alhasil, gw kabur dari warnet itu secepat kilat dan pergi ke warnet yang dulunya jadi langganan gw (karena lelet banget dan program windows nya di upgrade ke vista yang bikin loading komputernya lama sekalee gw ogah lagi online di warnet ini), tapi karena gw emang perlu banget download novel itu, jadi gw bersabar aja online di sini.

Gile banget… Loading lama sekalee…

Buka Multiply aja ada kira-kira 3 menitan, login 2 menitan, post blog 2 menitan juga (gubrak!!)

Mom: Kapan nih kamu pengen belajar masak? Si kakak udah bisa masak lho sejak SMU.

Me: Ah. Masa sih?

Mom: Yoi.

Me: Kapan-kapan deh Ma. Bingung nih sama temen-temen baru. Ga ada yang klop.

Sister: Bergaul donk! Jangan manyun terus.

Me: (to Sister) Geez!

Beberapa tahun yang lalu, ketika gw baru jadi freshman di English Department UA.

Mom: Bantuin mama masak donk. Si kakak kan udah ga ada (moving to Pekanbaru). Sekalian kamu belajar masak.

Me: Yoi.

Mom: Yang ini dibeginiin.

Me: Haik!

Mom: Yang itu dibegituin.

Me: Roger!

Mom: Nah. Jadi dah!

Me: Laper… Langsung makan ya ma!

Enam bulan yang lalu, ketika gw udah lumayan rajin masak.

Mom: (bangun tidur, langsung ke dapur karena merasa ada yang tidak beres) Mi, gosong ya?

Me: (lagi ngaduk-ngaduk mie telor dalam kuali) Hehe…

Mom: (masih belum liat gw lagi bikin apa) Lengket banget dikualinya?

Me: (masih belum memberitahu nyokap) Hoho…

Mom: (pas tahu kerjaan gw) Oh. Bikin mie telor.

Me: (selalu merasa ga pede kalo lagi masak ada nyokap) Udah pas belum Ma?

Mom: (icip-icip) Lumayanlah.

Me: Cihui! Makan… Makan… (ambil piring).

Mom: (ikutan ambil piring juga).

Me: (menikmati karya sendiri).

Mom: (menikmati karya gw) Ga pake bawang ya?

Me: Pake koq! Kan digiling, jadi ga keliatan.

Mom: Jahenya kebanyakan ya?

Me: Iya ya? Ga tahu juga deh.

Mom: Bawang putihnya masak ga sih? Koq langu gini?

Me: Masukin bawang putihnya dulu kan?

Mom: Ah! Kamu salah! Bawang merah dulu, trus diangkat, baru masukin bawang putih, trus masukin lagi bawang merahnya (ribet amat).

Dad: Ga enak! Banyak banget bawang putihnya.

Mom: Bukan kebanyakan, tapi kurang masak.

Dad: Terserahlah (mau ngeletakin piring kotor).

Me: (mau ngeletakin piring kotor juga) Koq nambah Pa?

Dad: (kepergok) Laper…

Released: 21 July 2007

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Genre: Fantasy

Illustrators: Jason Cockcroft

Buku yang ketujuh ini, masuk dalam daftar buku favorit gw di urutan nomor satu. Padahal sebelumnya, posisi ini ditempati oleh Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Walaupun udah untuk yang kelima kalinya gw baca buku ini, gw masih bisa ketawa terkikik-kikik dan nangis pas baca dan meluk-meluk ga keruan ketika udah selesai. Dan juga, gw ga bisa tidur tenang sebelum menamatkan ceritanya (padahal udah tahu endingnya). Jadi, bisa dibayangkanlah kalo gw baru bisa tidur jam tiga subuh ketika mata gw udah ga tahan lagi menahan kantuk.

Well, these are top ten reasons why I love this book forever:

10. Harry Potter, Ron Weasley dan Hermione Granger melakukan petualangan di alam bebas, bukan di Hogwarts. Kalau mereka masih berada di Hogwarts, mungkin ceritanya ga terlalu menarik. Karena plot ceritanya bakalan mirip dengan buku-buku sebelumnya, dimana mereka petualangan mereka dimulai dari King’s Cross sampai akhir tahun ajaran di Hogwarts, menghadapi guru-guru (terutama guru baru Defense Against the Dark Arts), menemukan dan menyibak misteri yang ada di Hogwarts, pertandingan Quidditch (my favorite part), kunjungan ke pondok Hagrid (my favorite part also), dan masih banyak lagi. Di buku yang ketujuh ini, petualangan mereka dimulai sejak pernikahan Bill dan Fleur, kemudian mengembara di alam bebas untuk menyelesaikan misi yang telah diberikan Albus Dumbledore, pertengkaran-pertengkaran kecil yang kemudian memuncak ketika akhirnya Ron pergi meninggalkan Harry dan Hermione (sedetik kemudian menyesal karena telah meninggalkan Harry dan Hermione), dan masih banyak lagi.

9. Bagian ulang tahun Harry yang ketujuhbelas. Bukan bagian makan malam perayaannya, soalnya bagian itu suram banget. Tapi bagian kadonya: Ron memberikan Harry sebuah buku mengenai bagaimana cara menghadapi wanita, Sneackoscope dari Hermione, alat cukur dari Bill dan Fleur, entah-apa dari Fred dan George, ciuman dari Ginny, dan yang paling bikin gw terharu yaitu jam saku emas dari Mr dan Mrs Weasley. Walaupun Mr dan Mrs Weasley hanya bisa memberikan jam saku bekas untuk Harry, tapi karena udah merupakan tradisi untuk memberikan benda seperti ini untuk penyihir yang sudah berumur tujuh-belas, dan gw tahu (walaupun sebenarnya udah lama juga gw tahu), kalo Mr dan Mrs Weasley itu udah nganggap Harry anaknya sendiri, dan begitu juga Harry sebaliknya (walaupun gw tahu James dan Lily Potter tuh ga tergantikan buat Harry).

8. Bagian Harry yang always and always and always and always and always and always mikirin Ginny.

7. Bagian Harry dan Hermione datang ke Godric’s Hollow.

He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’s Hollow that, but for Voldemort, he would have grown up and spent every school holiday. He could have invited friends to his house … he might even have had brothers and sisters … it would have been his mother who had made his seventeenth birthday cake. The life he had lost had hardly ever seemed so real to him as at this moment when he knew he was about to see the place where it had been taken from him. After Hermione had gone to bed that night, Harry quietly extracted his rucksack from her beaded bag, and from inside it, the photograph album Hagrid had given him so long ago. For the first time in months, he perused the old pictures of his parents, smiling and waving up at him from the images, which were all he had left of them now.

The empty words could not disguise the fact that his parents’ mouldering remains lay beneath snow and stone, indifferent, unknowing. And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off, or pretending? He let them fall, his lips pressed hard together, looking down at the thick snow hiding from his eyes the place where the last of Lily and James lay, bones now, surely, or dust, not knowing or caring that their living son stood so near, his heart still beating, alive because of their sacrifice and close to wishing, at this moment, that he was sleeping under the snow with them.

Gw rasa, ga perlu dijelaskan lagi deh.

6. Teman itu adalah hal yang paling berharga di dunia ini.

Harry/Ron:

‘I’m sorry,’ he said in a thick voice. ‘I’m sorry I left. I know I was a – a -’. He looked around at the darkness, as if hoping a bad enough word would swoop down upon him and claim him. ‘You’ve sort of made up for it tonight,’ said Harry. ‘Getting the sword. Finishing off the Horcrux. Saving my life.’ ‘That makes me sound a lot cooler than I was,’ Ron mumbled. ‘Stuff like that always sounds cooler that it really was,’ said Harry. ‘I’ve been trying to tell you that for years.’ Simultaneously they walked forwards and hugged, Harry gripping the still sopping back of Ron’s jacket (jadi keingat Joey and Chandler di FRIENDS). ‘And now,’ said Harry, as they broke apart, ‘all we’ve got to do is find the tent again.’ But it was not difficult. Though the walk through the dark forest with the doe had seemed lengthy, with Ron by his side the journey back seemed to take a surprisingly short time.

Harry/Ron/Hermione/Ginny/Neville/Luna:

Luna had decorated her bedroom ceiling with five beautifully painted faces: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Neville. They were not moving as the portraits at Hogwarts moved, but there was a certain magic about them all the same. Harry thought they breathed. What appeared to be fine golden chains wove around the pictures, linking them together, but after examining them for a minute or so, Harry realised that the chains were actually one word, repeated a thousand times in gold ink: friends … friends … friends …

5. Snape ternyata cinta sama mamanya Harry (Lily) nyaris seumur hidupnya!

4. Ending ceritanya yang bersettingkan di Hogwarts. Karena, menurut gw, semuanya berawal di Hogwarts dan berakhir juga di Hogwarts. Kalau bukan di Hogwarts, ga seru deh. Rasanya ada yang kurang gitu.

3. Pertempuran terakhir di Hogwarts, dimana semua orang dan makhluk fantastic yang melindungi (sebagian besar anggota Order of the Phoenix dan Dumbledore’s Army) untuk melawan Lord Voldemort dan antek-anteknya sampai titik darah penghabisan.

They seemed to have returned at the head of what looked like the families and friends of every Hogwarts student who had remained to fight, along with the shopkeepers and homeowners of Hogsmeade. The centaurs Bane, Ronan and Magorian burst into the Hall with a great clatter of hooves, as behind Harry the door that led to the kitchens was blasted off its hinges. The house-elves of Hogwarts swarmed into the Entrance Hall, screaming and waving carving knives and cleavers, and at their head, the locket of Regulus Black bouncing on his chest, was Kreacher.

Voldemort was in the centre of the battle, and he was striking and smiting all within reach. Harry saw Yaxley slammed to the floor by George and Lee Jordan, saw Dolohov fall with a scream at Flitwick’s hands, saw Walden Macnair thrown across the room by Hagrid, saw Ron and Neville bringing down Fenrir Greyback, Aberforth Stunning Rookwood, Arthur and Percy flooring Thicknesse, and Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy running through the crowd, not even attempting to fight, screaming for their son. Voldemort was now duelling McGonagall, Slughorn and Kingsley all at once; Bellatrix was still fighting too, fifty yards away from Voldemort, and like her master she duelled three at once: Hermione, Ginny and Luna, but Bellatrix was equal to them, and Harry’s attention was diverted as a Killing Curse shot so close to Ginny that she missed death by an inch — he changed course, running at Bellatrix rather than Voldemort, but before he had gone a few steps he was knocked sideways. ‘NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!’ Mrs Weasley threw off her cloak as she ran, freeing her arms. Bellatrix spun on the spot, roaring with laughter at the sight of her new challenger. ‘You – will – never – touch – our – children – again!’ screamed Mrs Weasley. Bellatrix laughed, the same exhilarated laugh her cousin Sirius had given as he toppled backwards through the veil, and suddenly Harry knew what was going to happen before it did. Molly’s curse soared beneath Bellatrix’s outstretched arm and hit her squarely in the chest, directly over her heart, and Voldemort screamed. Harry saw McGonagall, Kingsley and Slughorn blasted backwards, flailing and writhing through the air, as Voldemort’s fury at the fall of his last, best lieutenant exploded with the force of a bomb. Voldemort raised his wand and directed it at Molly Weasley (dan kalian tahu sendiri kelanjutannya).

Menurut gw, di bagian ini lah yang paling keren.

2. Epilogue. (No need further explanation).

And the number one reason why I love this book forever:

1. Pesan moral yang diambil dari buku ini adalah: NEVER EVER TO TRUST GOBLINS!

Eh, bukan itu deh (hehe).

Kehidupan memberikan pilihan-pilihan buat kita, dan tergantung diri kita sendiri bagaimana menggunakan pilihan tersebut. Plus, kita harus menerima semua konsekuensi atas pilihan yang kita ambil tadi.

Well, the Farmer thought it best to make it up with the Serpent, and brought food and honey to the mouth of its lair, and said to it,”Let’s forget and forgive, perhaps you were right to punish my son, and take vengeance on my cattle, but surely I was right in trying to revenge him. Now that we are both satisfied why should not we be friends again?”

“No, no,” said the Serpent, “take away your gifts, you can never forget the death of your son, nor I the loss of my tail.”

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.

(Aesop)

“I would give anything,” said he, “if you would take it out.”

At last the Crane agreed to try, and told the Wolf to lie on his side and open his jaws as wide as he could. Then the Crane put its long neck down the Wolf’s throat, and with its beak loosened the bone, till at last it got it out.

“Will you kindly give me the reward you promised?” said the Crane.

The Wolf grinned and showed his teeth and said, “Be content. You have put your head inside a Wolf’s mouth and taken it out again in safety, that ought to be reward enough for you.”

Gratitude and greed go not together.

(Aesop)

“Quarter me this Stag,” roared the Lion, so the other animals skinned it and cut it into four parts.

Then the Lion took his stand in front of the carcass and pronounced judgment, “The first quarter is for me in my capacity as King of Beasts; the second is mine as arbiter; another share comes to me for my part in the chase; and as for the fourth quarter, well, as for that, I should like to see which of you will dare to lay a paw upon it.”

“Humph,” grumbled the Fox as he walked away with his tail between his legs. But he spoke in a low growl, “You may share the labours of the great, but you will not share the spoil.”

(Aesop)