So I'm currently watching Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire on ABC Family right now. I remember when the first movie came out. I was 11. So I've grown up with the books and the movies. I remember waiting in line when the 4th book came out, and the 5th, and the 6th. For the 7th, I was smart enough to preorder it and have it delivered to my house. I read it in 8 hours (that included taking bathroom and snack breaks).
Knowing yesterday it premiered around the world is crazy. It comes out for all us regular folks next week. I will not be watching it on its premiere date though. I'm leaving for California on the 23 of July and am going to see it out there with my uncle. This is the last Harry Potter movie. For now. I still hope that one day J.K. Rowling will write another series, perhaps about their children. In a way, it is an end to a crazy journey. But it is also a beginning. It is a beginning of a legacy that will last for years to come.
Harry Potter will always be remembered as The Boy Who Lived. I will always remember the series as an escape to the magical world. It is one I experienced in full. Sometimes I really felt like I was a Hogwarts student and to this day, I still wish I was.
Harry Potter will live on through the passion filled hearts of young and old, through the 8 dynamic movies, through the ink on pages of a well-worn book, through games and music. The series will live on through fanfiction and roleplaying games, through it's very own amusement park (The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, Florida) and now, from J.K. Rowling herself, a interactive website called Pottermore, that will be revealed later in the fall.
In the end, I am not saying goodbye to Harry Potter. I am saying see you later because I know whenever I miss you, you are only a click, or a hand reach, or an airplane away.
lovelovelove
~K~
