Sept 4, 2017 - finished on audio. This one went very fast (also helped along by a road trip), and Jim Dale got to do many characters in younger form during flashbacks. The whole last couple hours of this were so harrowing. 
 "And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her. After several long moments, or it might have been half an hour--or possibly several sunlit days--they broke apart." 
 "[Harry thinks] how they had talked about fighting a losing battle, and that it was important to fight, and to fight again, and to keep fighting, to keep evil at bay, though never quite eradicated." 
 "Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!" 
 "There is nothing to be feared from a body, Harry, any more than there is anything to fear from the darkness. Lord Voldemort, who of course secretly fears both, disagrees. But once again he reveals his own lack of wisdom. It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more." 
 July 2007-ish: Okay, I'm now at the point everyone else was at when they couldn't wait for midnight on July 21!! Although I'd already heard who dies at the end of this 6th book, I managed not to hear how it happens, and I was shocked -- shocked! This story is getting really scary (for a wimp like me), and certain scenes I wished I wasn't reading alone at night! But lucky me, I get to open book 7 RIGHT NOW and not wait two years for closure! Here goes...