Harry Potter and his ... and his whole gang!
I went to the mall to do some urgent shopping. As I stood in line to get my stuff billed, there it was, on the 2 wide screen LCD TVs, one of my favorite movies** being played - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. It made my day! More than shopping I enjoyed the movie! And why wouldn't I? J K Rowling (who, by the way was advised by a teacher when in school to not write fantasy stories, because they don't sell. I'm glad she didn't take the teacher's advice) has this wonderful, un-surpassable ability to, I daresay, apparate or transfer you via Floo Powder network, to the world of wizards and witches and magic and Quidditch. So much so that, at times I really hate that I'm Muggle-born. What wouldn't I give to fly on a broom, use the time-turner, get my injuries mended in a day, store memories in a penseive, transfigure a desk into a frog, brew love potions, produce a stunning, silvery Patronus, and know and associate with Professor Dumbledore, use the Maurauder's Map, drink butterbeer, perform hexes, punch Malfoy in the nose - I can go on and on!
And there's no stopping me!
My favorite character is... oh there are so many! I love Snape, Professor Dumbledore, Remus Lupin, Fred and George, Sirius Black, Hermione, Hagrid, Luna, Tonks (the way she says "Wotcher" is adorable!). In fact, all characters are very well thgouth of and have such definitive aspect. Its remarkable, really.
Now that I'm thinking more about it as I'm writing this, it makes me feel miserable that I'm stuck in this stupid, life-sucking place called office, working for people I don't care (yea you heard me!), whereas I very well could've been an Auror or a skilled Potions master (ahem). The subjects taught at the school seem so real... DADA, Potions, History of Magic, Divinations, Transfiguration, Care of Magical Creatures... And whats amazing is that the books make you badly want to be one of them, and experience all of that. It makes you believe there indeed is a wizarding world, which the wizards are trying hard to conceal from the non-wizarding community. It makes you believe there's Azkaban with the Dementors guiding it, here indeed is Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And the concept of Animagus! I'd love to be a unicorn or phoenix....
The books make you feel one with each character (except of course, the whole troop of Death Eaters (Bellatrix especially), Voldemort and Professor Trelawney). The books teach you friendship, being loyal, admitting your mistakes (Snape), loving beyond hope and death (Snape again), being brave and not letting doom get to you (Black), to inherently see good in the baddest of people (Professor Dumbledore), giving a chance to those who erred (Harry to Peter Pettigrew in book 3), and being calm, polite and pleasant to all (Professor Dumbledore again).
Oh I'm totally obsessed with the books; I keep re-reading the 7 books over and over again, and each time it makes me feel more close to each of the characters and plants a hope in me that there indeed is a platform 9 3/4ths at the King's Cross station, and that one day I'll shop at Diagon Alley for a 11-inch holly and phoenix feather wand....
And there's no stopping me!
My favorite character is... oh there are so many! I love Snape, Professor Dumbledore, Remus Lupin, Fred and George, Sirius Black, Hermione, Hagrid, Luna, Tonks (the way she says "Wotcher" is adorable!). In fact, all characters are very well thgouth of and have such definitive aspect. Its remarkable, really.
Now that I'm thinking more about it as I'm writing this, it makes me feel miserable that I'm stuck in this stupid, life-sucking place called office, working for people I don't care (yea you heard me!), whereas I very well could've been an Auror or a skilled Potions master (ahem). The subjects taught at the school seem so real... DADA, Potions, History of Magic, Divinations, Transfiguration, Care of Magical Creatures... And whats amazing is that the books make you badly want to be one of them, and experience all of that. It makes you believe there indeed is a wizarding world, which the wizards are trying hard to conceal from the non-wizarding community. It makes you believe there's Azkaban with the Dementors guiding it, here indeed is Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And the concept of Animagus! I'd love to be a unicorn or phoenix....
The books make you feel one with each character (except of course, the whole troop of Death Eaters (Bellatrix especially), Voldemort and Professor Trelawney). The books teach you friendship, being loyal, admitting your mistakes (Snape), loving beyond hope and death (Snape again), being brave and not letting doom get to you (Black), to inherently see good in the baddest of people (Professor Dumbledore), giving a chance to those who erred (Harry to Peter Pettigrew in book 3), and being calm, polite and pleasant to all (Professor Dumbledore again).
Oh I'm totally obsessed with the books; I keep re-reading the 7 books over and over again, and each time it makes me feel more close to each of the characters and plants a hope in me that there indeed is a platform 9 3/4ths at the King's Cross station, and that one day I'll shop at Diagon Alley for a 11-inch holly and phoenix feather wand....
I really fantasize - I think its a real world and the hapenings shown really do take place in such a world.
and maybe the transmission to Hogwards lands are everywhere, just beyond the thinking realm of human race.
a-la , the passage on platform at the King cross station- you need to muster courage to rush into the concrete block to enter the transmission, which common sense does not permit.
Harry--------------- Scarry!!!!!!!!