Call me crazy, but in a short while I'm leaving to go watch the midnight showing of Harry Potter 7!!
There are just some things where you have to grasp the chance, because even if you try to make up for it, it doesn't feel the same (much like 1st time weddings :D)
This is one of them.
From a writer's standpoint, JK Rowling is my idol. She is amazing. The Harry Potter books are books that I grew up with (I was 8 years old when I read the first one, and was in 8th grade when I read the last one), largely because her stories are that captivating and appealing to so many people. Every reading brings out new ideas and themes and things I never picked up on before. Each book penetrates a certain maturity that you won't realize until you are at that level of maturity (ex: 4th graders can read HP5 and not really get anything out of the OWLS studying part--I know I didn't at the time. Read it again as a high schooler with APs to study for and all of a sudden.....)
That series was designed, whether she intended for it or not, to grow with her readers. We grow and mature as the characters do. After trying my own hand at novels, that is honestly a very difficult and amazing feat.
If anyone has influenced me to pursue a level of noveling/writing that was deeper than just words, it's JK Rowling.
school night? no biggie. I'll just see it as any other night that I stay up till 3am and then slug off to school at 7 the next morning. my work is finished anyway.
There is only one problem: I CANNOT FOR THE LOVE OF MY LIFE FIND MY GRYFFINDOR SCARF. that is a problem.
I shall hunt now.
OMG I WAS SO AMAZED AT HOW THE SERIES GREW WITH US. even the writing style became more sophisticated as we became better readers. and i love that i could find something new with every re-read. jk rowling is godly.
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