Tomorrow, I'll be going to see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince for the 3rd time. Later this month, I will be seeing it again when it comes to IMAX. I don't think I've ever really talked on here about how much I love, love, love Harry Potter and the magical world he lives in.
I guess I was a late HP bloomer. I didn't start reading the books until just before the first movie came out. And it was only because my older brother - who doesn't like to read - was raving on and on about how good the books were. I figured if he liked them then they had to be good, right? I fell fast and hard for the Boy Who Lived. And I idolized JK Rowling for creating this magnificent world in which I escape to. For the releases of Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows I was at the midnight release parties at Barnes & Noble with friends and family wearing my MUGGLE t-shirt. Yes, I AM A DORK. I can prove that by admitting I have a 2009 Harry Potter calendar and a poster of Dumbledore's Army on my wall. I am 26 years old.
Tiffany was a huge Harry Potter fan, too. We were so excited for the last book. She died six months before Deathly Hallows was released. It was very bittersweet for me and her mom (who also loves HP).... so excited to find out what happens to Harry, but so sad that Tiffany wasn't there to enjoy it all with us. I was in tears within the first minute of reading the book when I came across this...
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.
How perfect is that?
