Well this is my first post. I bet you're wondering what this is and why I've decided to do it. Have you seen the movie Julie and Julia? Well, there's my inspiration. Seen/read Harry Potter? There's why. Here's a little background, let me tell you a story...
It's Easter. Or a few days before. I'm in second grade at the time which makes me about 8 years old. My mother and father are searching for something small to add to my basket. A book to be exact. They've picked out my siblings gifts to place among the candy and pastel easter grass, all that's left is me. There's a book that catches my mother's eye. "I think she'll enjoy this," she says to herself, and in the cart it goes to be bought along with other Easter items for that Sunday...Now, flash forward about ten years later...
I'm 19 years old and like many of you, have just seen the last Harry Potter movie ever to be originially released in theatres at one of the midnight showings across the United States. I was there in homemade Potter Garb, a Potter sweatshirt with my adoring boyfriend and my little brother, eagerly waiting in line to see the end of my childhood. I reflect on the past ten years with nostalgia and sadness. 7 book releases at which I played trivia games and lost sleep to read the book as fast as I could eager to see what happened next. 7 midnight movie releases because I didn't see the first one at midnight, where again I lost sleep in my anticipation to see my favorite series come alive. Harry Potter became my life.
I wasn't the best reader, but not stupid either. Grade level. I stopped reading The Sorcerer's Stone after the first three chapters and I remember saying to my mother, "I just can't get into it." So for weeks I set it down...then one day, picked it up again and forced myself to read. My mother said that sometimes books are just hard getting into at first and you just have to get past the introductory chapters...Twas there I found friends for life, and learned lessons that most kids learn in school. Best of all, Harry Potter made me a reader. I started reading all books I could get my hands on and my reading scores sky rocketed. By the end of my elementary career, I was said to have been on a high school reading letter. Harry Potter turned me on to the written world.
Now, four days after Deathly Hallows part two, I find I have an emptiness in my heart. I grew up with Harry, Ron, and Hermione. I aged while they did. I learned that it's ok to be different, that it's ok to fight for what you want, and the good will always prevail...even if it takes 7 or 10 years...
But none of that is the point of this blog. I want to this to be a haven for other Potter fans as we have come to be known. What are you doing to keep Harry and the other characters alive now that it's all over? That's what this blog is...My fight to keep Harry alive in my own heart as well as others.
Let me say that I always recommend Harry, and it's one of the first things I tell people about myself. "Hi, I'm a Harry Potter fan...a big one." And I'm not lying. Hundreds if not a few thousand dollars in memorabilia, and countless hours spend reading, watching, and obsessing of the series. So, four days after the fact you may ask, what am I doing to keep Harry alive right now?
Number One: Starting this blog.
This is my first step. And I hope to continue you this daily...A day to day fight to keep my childhood alive within my life. So step one, I've accomplished.
What have you done for the fight today?
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