if I wasn't a muggle, I would be Ginny Weasley...

Tonight at midnight I will be one of those crazy Harry Potter fans that will wait in line to get a good seat for the midnight showing of the newly released Deathly Hallows. I will admit that I am a big Harry Potter fan. I have read all of the books, and own all the movies. I have a shirt that says Muggle (which I will be wearing tonight), and know to gasp if someone shouts out the spell avada kedavra!
I am very aware that there are many skeptics that walk among us Harry Potter fans. I have heard different remarks from the non-Potter fans about my excitement over tonight's festivities. I am here to tell you, don't knock it till you try it! You sit there and say it's so unrealistic, or who wants to watch a bunch of weirdos waving their wands around. You really just have no idea! There are many reasons why I love the Harry Potter series!
I would have to say the main reason I love these books is their grasp on imagination. Seriously, JK Rowling has an amazing imagination. The whole point of a book or movie is to step out of our reality and take a jump through something that is not ordinary and swim through the wonder of what we wish could happen to us. You say that you won't have anything to do with Harry Potter because it is so unrealistic - I say I love it for that fact! Yes, I know that I will never be able to wave a wand around and cast a spell to make something float in air. I will also never be able to apparate (disappear, and reappear somewhere else of my choosing). And no I won't be wearing an invisibility cloak any time soon. But what if I could...or did! How awesome would that be?! The point of Harry Potter is not to judge whether or not this could really happen in real life - or point fingers and say that just because you love this, means you believe in such things as witchcraft - No. The point of this is to take a ride on the wild side of imagination and enjoy the world JK Rowling has created where these things are possible.
Tonight I will be immersed into a world unlike my own. I will be enthralled by the world that Harry Potter lives in and is able to be a wizard. When I leave the theater, I will not start waving a stick around hoping for my spells to happen (well maybe I will try it once - ha ha), but I will go back to my normal life. But for a few hours tonight, I will be a part of the world that is Harry Potter. A world full of imagination and the impossible. If you give it a chance, you might find that you like it - and I might see you wearing a Muggle shirt at the final movie release next summer.

I think you should be writing books!
ReplyDeleteI want to start writing children's books! Have a few ideas that I need to start working on. :)
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