24 12 / 2011
While creeping on YouTube, I found this. It’s basically a collection of all the best moments of the movies, and all our favorite memories of these books. The best part? It actually shows Jo finishing the end of DH, and her saying “it’s probably rubbish..”
I forget sometimes. I forget and I think “Oh, they’re just good books, and a great story.” But then, I watch videos like these, and all that comes to my mind is THANK YOU. I don’t know if you all realize how extraordinarily lucky we were to grow up with these books as our childhood. We were extraordinarily lucky to go to the book releases, to the house sorting, to the movie releases, FRANTICALLY dragging my mother to Barnes and Nobles to get me the fourth and fifth books are memories that still ring in my mind.
I forget sometimes, and think it’s just a children’s book, and then I watch videos like these, and hear “You’re a wizard Harry.” “I’m a what?”and although we all post jokes on Tumblr of these, I distinctly know I get goosebumps when I hear those words, because I think of all the time I spent with Harry fighting for the Sorcerer’s Stone, cheering for Buckbeak and Sirius while praying for Harry to beat those dementors, all the time I spend madly in love with Cedric, and how hard I laughed at the things Mad Eye would say, how hard I cried when Fred died, and how I put the book down when I read The Prince’s Tale.
The best part about this, is I know when I share this with y’all, you’ll understand, because the best thing Jo gave to us, was a community. A community of readers, and a community of friends- whether online on in real life- she gave us something no other book could have given us, and she gave us a story to tell our children, and to look back and say “I remember when I read my first Harry Potter book. So sit in my lap, Dobby Hedwig Tonks, and let me read it to you. “Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense.”
So here’s to laughing with the twins, crying with Hermione, or shaking our heads at Harry and Ron’s bromance. Here’s to the best role models I’ve ever read about, and mostly, here is to the wonderful, BRILLIANT woman who created this all.
And as she so famously said: Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
Here’s to you, Jo.
-N
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