Harry Potter and I are very close.
Some people don't understand how big of a fan I am.
When I was in 6th grade (the same age as Harry!), a nerdy kid in my reading class did a book report on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. I thought to myself, "LAME! Who would read a book about wizards?" By the following year, I had read books 1-4 over and over again.
I visited fan based websites daily. I wrote fan fiction.
I had a countdown in my journal for the release of the 5th, 6th, and 7th book.
I printed pictures of the actors and pasted them in my journal.
I had a HUGE crush on Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley). We were born only one day apart you know.
My final English project in high school was a biography and twenty minute presentation on J.K. Rowling.
So now you may understand why I sat in the movie theater at the end of the 7th movie Part 2 and sobbed. Not one glistening tear, not a few sniffles. I literally sobbed.
I felt like a part of me had died...had vanished forever. I felt a huge gaping whole in my life...and as sad as this sounds, I am not being dramatic. I grew up with Harry Potter. I remember standing in line at midnight several times to buy a book. About wizards and witches and magical worlds.
And now it's over.
I couldn't accept that fact though...so I asked my mom to mail me my collection of books so I could cling onto that precious part of my childhood a little longer.
I just finished the first book, and am really looking forward to re-reading the series. :)
Thanks J.K. Rowling...you really changed my life!
2 comments:
Oh Harry Potter is awesome! My husband has never read the books so I am making him do it now. This post is making me miss HP big time haha. I am excited to have my kids read the books someday :)
I totallllly understand. I just keep telling myself that it isn't really the end. I mean, star wars came back like twenty years later, why not HP? And I also understand the RG obsession. Its a little unhealthy, but also a little unavoidable haha.
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