Extra Credit Blog

I've always thought that people never really change but the Harry Potter series proved me wrong although it may be a fiction series.  There are 2 main characters who changed and grew the most to me, these two characters are Ron and Snape.  Ron when we see him in the earlier books acts more as a young boy (as he should).  He constantly has people taking care of him and he relies on others in order to keep his confidence up.  However in the last book we see two completely different Rons.  The first Ron we see is the childish Ron who is unable to fend for himself and is reliant on others to do the work while he tags along.  After Ron leaves Harry and Hermione and returns he is a changed man.  He is finally able to start pulling his own weight and although some find Ron being able to open the chamber of secrets as ridiculous I think it was the perfect way to revive himself in the fight against Voldemort.  As for my other character naturally Snape was the most surprising character to me.  Snape's intentions always seemed questionable and we always seemed to catch tid-bits of incriminating conversations.  Never in my wildest dreams, especially after finding out that Snape killed Dumbledore would I have thought that he was the one who was always fighting for Harry to live.  I didn't think that it would be possible for Rowling to bring Snape back from "Team Voldemort" but her plans were perfect.  She was able to tie up all lose ends and explain everything that we thought we saw.  Rowling not only made this series an epic but a story of love, and Snape's undying love for Lily was a bitter sweet addition to her edge of the seat story.