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if you don't know what i'm talking about, look at the post before this one
"The series is drawing to a close. The seventh and final installment is coming and when it does, chldren, teens and adults alike will gather in bookshops at midnight for the last time...and the great, roaring, truimphant tide of Harry Potter fans will diminish into the nothingness, the reminiscing elders we have despised for their Batles, their Elvises, their Bob Dylans. Harry Potter, the huge, unanticipated reading movement will cease to be. WE weill all read, our breath collectively held, the final book: the opening pages, in which our gasps will be of delight, to be transported to our familiar world again, for the last time...then to feverish addiction as we race through the middle, giddy for answers...and then, the climax which we'll read with blurred eyes, so scared to know waht happens.
We'll shed our tears, we'll choke our laughts, and we'll close our books, knowing as we do that never again will we be able to read a Harry Potter book for the first time. Never again will we experience the stabs of loss, pain, sadness, fresh and unwarned: those precious cupfuls of humanity that Rowling has tipped into our outstretched hands will net be proffered again. We'll be left grasping at leftovers, we'll be left poring over the old, often read texts, trying in vain to reconjure those emotions.
Oh, woe unto us, when we close the last of the series! Woe unot us who will be left empty, even though we have been at last fulfilled! Woe unto us, we idiots, we idealists, we gullible sheep: we set our hearts on someone, something, mortal and finite, and at last, we reached its finish, the end has come, and we, empty-handed, still crave more of that which will never come again, must live on.
These books are so alive now. Something to argue about: Do you think Regulus Black is R.A.B.? Do you think Snape is good or evil? What was Dumbledore moaning about in that horcrux cave? But I wonder, almost ruefully, what mugglenet.com will look like in twenty years. WE bask in the sheer life of these books, of the inexplicable truth that comes from Rowling's simple prose. But when the mysteries unfold, I wonder, will the Harry Potter books still be alive?"
~by Antigone Doyle, Raleigh, NC
"The series is drawing to a close. The seventh and final installment is coming and when it does, chldren, teens and adults alike will gather in bookshops at midnight for the last time...and the great, roaring, truimphant tide of Harry Potter fans will diminish into the nothingness, the reminiscing elders we have despised for their Batles, their Elvises, their Bob Dylans. Harry Potter, the huge, unanticipated reading movement will cease to be. WE weill all read, our breath collectively held, the final book: the opening pages, in which our gasps will be of delight, to be transported to our familiar world again, for the last time...then to feverish addiction as we race through the middle, giddy for answers...and then, the climax which we'll read with blurred eyes, so scared to know waht happens.
We'll shed our tears, we'll choke our laughts, and we'll close our books, knowing as we do that never again will we be able to read a Harry Potter book for the first time. Never again will we experience the stabs of loss, pain, sadness, fresh and unwarned: those precious cupfuls of humanity that Rowling has tipped into our outstretched hands will net be proffered again. We'll be left grasping at leftovers, we'll be left poring over the old, often read texts, trying in vain to reconjure those emotions.
Oh, woe unto us, when we close the last of the series! Woe unot us who will be left empty, even though we have been at last fulfilled! Woe unto us, we idiots, we idealists, we gullible sheep: we set our hearts on someone, something, mortal and finite, and at last, we reached its finish, the end has come, and we, empty-handed, still crave more of that which will never come again, must live on.
These books are so alive now. Something to argue about: Do you think Regulus Black is R.A.B.? Do you think Snape is good or evil? What was Dumbledore moaning about in that horcrux cave? But I wonder, almost ruefully, what mugglenet.com will look like in twenty years. WE bask in the sheer life of these books, of the inexplicable truth that comes from Rowling's simple prose. But when the mysteries unfold, I wonder, will the Harry Potter books still be alive?"
~by Antigone Doyle, Raleigh, NC