If you're part of the same generation as me, you grew up with the Weasley's, Hermione and Potter - you know every single corner of Hogwarts worth knowing, and you know Latin...well, one line at least: "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus".
I began reading the books around the same age that Harry went to Hogwarts, 11years old; about five years after the first book was released - yet still back before the Harry Potter Phenomenon exploded around the world. And I literally grew up on a staple of Fred & George's practical jokes, Quidditch matches and Harry saving the world from Voldermort approximately every year - for five years. Anyone who's ever visited The Pinus can tell what a fanatic I am, simply by reading the byline at the top.
I was thinking about it today and I realised not many books have ever made me cry (not many things really), but because reading the books and following the lives of the characters from the very beginning really sucks you in, there were many instances throughout the series where I did shed a mournful tear. And then there's the fact that I'm not much into the romance genre, but I realised too, that the whole Harry Potter saga was one of the most amazing love stories of our generation - and it all revolved around Severus Snape and his undying love for someone who couldn't love him back.
Anyway...my trip down Harry Potter memory lane has brought on the urge to re-read the entire series. The problem is though, that I was the first person at my school to not only own the first two novels but also give the dorky and quite frankly really bad cover-arts the benefit of the doubt, and so my books made the rounds, travelling to unknown homes, and I never saw them again - who knows? Someone, somewhere, could be holding my copy of the Philosophers Stone and discovering untold delights from its pages right now. In which case, I guess, I wouldn't mind at all. Though everyone who knows me, knows how my books are one of my greatest treasures, so thinking about those lost gems does kind of make me somewhat sad.
So, I'd better sign off now. Assignments to submit, things to do, other books to read...and all that.
I began reading the books around the same age that Harry went to Hogwarts, 11years old; about five years after the first book was released - yet still back before the Harry Potter Phenomenon exploded around the world. And I literally grew up on a staple of Fred & George's practical jokes, Quidditch matches and Harry saving the world from Voldermort approximately every year - for five years. Anyone who's ever visited The Pinus can tell what a fanatic I am, simply by reading the byline at the top.
I was thinking about it today and I realised not many books have ever made me cry (not many things really), but because reading the books and following the lives of the characters from the very beginning really sucks you in, there were many instances throughout the series where I did shed a mournful tear. And then there's the fact that I'm not much into the romance genre, but I realised too, that the whole Harry Potter saga was one of the most amazing love stories of our generation - and it all revolved around Severus Snape and his undying love for someone who couldn't love him back.
Anyway...my trip down Harry Potter memory lane has brought on the urge to re-read the entire series. The problem is though, that I was the first person at my school to not only own the first two novels but also give the dorky and quite frankly really bad cover-arts the benefit of the doubt, and so my books made the rounds, travelling to unknown homes, and I never saw them again - who knows? Someone, somewhere, could be holding my copy of the Philosophers Stone and discovering untold delights from its pages right now. In which case, I guess, I wouldn't mind at all. Though everyone who knows me, knows how my books are one of my greatest treasures, so thinking about those lost gems does kind of make me somewhat sad.So, I'd better sign off now. Assignments to submit, things to do, other books to read...and all that.
Mischief managed!
P.s Never tickle a sleeping dragon.
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