| ahh. hello xanga which i have shamefully deserted for so long. :[ there's so much to say! where to begin. i finally finished harry potter. i tip my hat off to j.k. of course. i promise i will not spoil, but it is soooo great! and now that it's over, i have this overwhelming sense of relief. i think i've been subconsciously worried about harry's fate for the past eight years, and now that i finally know..it's just different. i'm actually quite sad about the whole thing. when i see people reading the 7th, i envy them, for i assume they haven't reached the ending, and are still in that mode of excitement of what's to come. i don't even like people bringing it up, because it just reminds me that it's really over. lol pathetic? yea. but hey, you know what. i don't care. i am fully aware that hogwarts is not a real place, and that the characters whom i have come to adore and look up to are in fact, make believe. but it's not just harry's heroic tales, or the good vs. evil theme, or the constant magical sense of it. it's the relationships, all the ties between the characters, that make me appreciate the ones that i have. and that there are things in life worth fighting for. and i've come to realize several of those things recently. the wands, the magic spells, the flying brooms, they're all fake. but the relationships between the characters, the love they have for one another, the overwhelming sense of 'so much to lose'..it's all real. it's everywhere. and i honestly think that rowling brings more attention to these importances through her books, more than her imaginative, wonderful made up world the characters live in, then many authors ever have. i don't need a wand and a broom to feel like ginny weasley, with my overprotective family, my daring, yet irrational and stubborn mind, and my inherited red hair. sure, the bonds between these wizards seem slightly unrealistic, but that's just because it's uncommon. it's uncommon to have such amazing relations with friends. that's why it's appreciated so much when it is present. and that's why so many people love these characters, because aside from all the magical nonsense, is the ideal image of friendship and love which we all yearn for. which we are all fully capable of getting if we could just pull our heads out of our asses and pay attention to what's going around us. just be thankful that we are still young, and these opportunities are right in front of us. we CAN be the wizards in Harry Potter. For those of you who understand me, don't let their lack of body and presence disallow you from thinking that they are as real and as tangible as you and me.
"My dear boy, of course it is happening in your head. But why on earth should that mean that it's not real?" <3 |
