Wizard Week: JK Rowling's Favorite Scene/Book

Did you know that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is JK Rowling's favorite book?  I'm sorry, that should be favourite with a 'u'.  She is a Brit you know.  But yes, the last novel of the series is her fave.  Maybe that's why they're doing two movies out of this one book!

Oh, who am I kidding?  WB wants to make more money.

But today, while doing some internet surfing, I found that her favorite scene of that book (and in fact, the whole series) is when Harry walks into the Forbidden Forest to confront Voldemort.  Here's what she said about it:

But when Harry takes his last, long walk into the heart of the Dark Forest, he is choosing to accept a burden that fell on him when still a tiny child, in spite of the fact that he never sought the role for which he has been cast, never wanted the scar with which he has been marked. As his mentor, Albus Dumbledore, has tried to make clear to Harry, he could have refused to follow the path marked out for him. In spite of the weight of opinion and expectation that singles him out as the "Chosen One", it is Harry's own will that takes him into the Forest to meet Voldemort, prepared to suffer the fate that he escaped sixteen years before.

The destinies of wizards and princes might seem more certain than those carved out for the rest of us, yet we all have to choose the manner in which we meet life: whether to live up (or down) to the expectations placed upon us; whether to act selfishly, or for the common good; whether to steer the course of our lives ourselves, or to allow ourselves to be buffeted around by chance and circumstance. Birthdays are often moments for reflection, moments when we pause, look around, and take stock of where we are; children gleefully contemplate how far they have come, whereas adults look forwards into the trees, wondering how much further they have to go. This extract from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is my favourite part of the seventh book; it might even be my favourite part of the entire series, and in it, Harry demonstrates his truly heroic nature, because he overcomes his own terror to protect the people he loves from death, and the whole of his society from tyranny.

Too bad this scene won't occur until Part 2... in the summer... of 2011...