Ever wonder why I love Harry Potter?
So this probably won't have a lot of views but I really don't care I need to get this off my chest with the final movie coming out on Thursday. I feel like this isn't the end but at the same time it's like losing a loved one. I know it may seem a bit weird a 22 year old being as obsessed as I am but I know for a fact I am not alone. I have my own group of marauders and I have my close crew of HP fans. I am proud in my knowing that I will always have a strong connection to the series regardless of my age.
Do you want to know my story? Well here it is... when the first two books were printed I was really into anime so I didn't pay much attention to them. But then people started to try and push it onto me in the fall of 1999, I was eleven and didn't care for it. I would complain loudly (and logically) that Agatha Christie was a better author and the series was just a bunch of stolen ideas smushed together. The books were about an orphaned boy who is abused by his aunt and uncle and then learns he can do magic then goes to a magic school where the potions professor hates him and he gets into a lot of trouble then saves the school.
Just like a mash up of Matilda and The Worst Witch. But then I started to run out of books I was willing to read and we were required to have two read over Christmas Break. I only had one picked out and some friends of the family got us a copy of the first book. I started reading it two days after Christmas and had it finished two days later. Now this was the fastest I had ever gone through a book and most of that time was forcing myself through the first three chapters. A few days later we were in Boise and I convinced my dad to buy the second book for me. I then bought the third book two days after it came out. From there it was a waiting game and I discovered just how many of my friends/family loved the series.
Now you have to remember that when I was younger I moved all over and bounced between my parents houses. I was at my dads house in McCall, ID when I started to love the series. I was in sixth grade. I moved to Hattiesburg, MS for my seventh grade year. I went to NR Burger Middle School now I had about two friends from when I had been there two years prior in fifth grade but I really made new friends by joining the library club and all of us bonding over Harry Potter. This is the point when I really learned about fanfiction and fanart. I remember that when I first started reading fanfiction I would be really picky and only read stories that had the Harry/Ginny pairing. In eighth grade I moved back to Riggins, ID and had about three friends who were as in love with Harry Potter as me but I still had my little group of friends. I was slowly being eaten by the internet at this time spending hours and hours online, This was the year that over Christmas break the first Harry Potter movie came out. That in and of itself is a funny story because we went to see it while in Santa Barbara with my dad but we ended up seeing Lord of The Rings. we saw it two days later with my step mom.
By the time I hit high school I was truly obsessed I wanted a cloak and I wrote/read/drew and focused on Harry Potter and anime equally. I started at a new school in Clearlake, CA and purposefully walked around with the books to make friends. First I picked up the twins who had sat with me at the assembly the first day of school. This then extended to Ellie and Britters in ceramics class we then added in the two Crystals and we all bonded more then you would think possible just because of this one tiny little subject. They were and are my family. These are the Marauders. This was also the year that I found out my best friend was a lesbian and in love with me and I had started dating the boy who is now my husband. Ellie also introduced me into the furry fandom. XD
For sophmore year it was really really hard because we moved to Phoenix, AZ when I didn't really want to because it meant leaving everyone behind even though Ellie had moved months and months before due to her step dads abuse. I haven't seen her since. We still talk though.
I had made myself a promise. I was tried of losing friends and moving constantly. I was not going to put forth an effort to make friends this year since I would just be moving again at the end of the year. So I started at Cactus High School and my plan worked well for about the first week. Then I started to talk to Tyler who convinced me to sit with him and his friends at lunch which lead me to meet the rest of my close group of friends here. Only two were as big Harry Potter nerds as myself though and only one do I still talk to... Eileen. She loved fanfictions and the art and everything. By October of that year when my birthday rolled around I was feeling pretty okay but still missing those in Cali...they then sent me a care package. A video with all the times we had hangouts and sleep overs and some new footage. Even now thinking about how that video has helped me through so many hard times I tear up. That video kept me from cutting, kept me from seriously hurting myself because it proved that I was loved by those around me.
Harry Potter has affected my life in so many ways good and bad but I will never ever lose my love for the books and the magical world they represent. I will not try to prove myself to you I will defend it until my dying days. But there is nothing in this world that has helped me in the ways that Harry Potter has.
Do you want to know my story? Well here it is... when the first two books were printed I was really into anime so I didn't pay much attention to them. But then people started to try and push it onto me in the fall of 1999, I was eleven and didn't care for it. I would complain loudly (and logically) that Agatha Christie was a better author and the series was just a bunch of stolen ideas smushed together. The books were about an orphaned boy who is abused by his aunt and uncle and then learns he can do magic then goes to a magic school where the potions professor hates him and he gets into a lot of trouble then saves the school.
Just like a mash up of Matilda and The Worst Witch. But then I started to run out of books I was willing to read and we were required to have two read over Christmas Break. I only had one picked out and some friends of the family got us a copy of the first book. I started reading it two days after Christmas and had it finished two days later. Now this was the fastest I had ever gone through a book and most of that time was forcing myself through the first three chapters. A few days later we were in Boise and I convinced my dad to buy the second book for me. I then bought the third book two days after it came out. From there it was a waiting game and I discovered just how many of my friends/family loved the series.
Now you have to remember that when I was younger I moved all over and bounced between my parents houses. I was at my dads house in McCall, ID when I started to love the series. I was in sixth grade. I moved to Hattiesburg, MS for my seventh grade year. I went to NR Burger Middle School now I had about two friends from when I had been there two years prior in fifth grade but I really made new friends by joining the library club and all of us bonding over Harry Potter. This is the point when I really learned about fanfiction and fanart. I remember that when I first started reading fanfiction I would be really picky and only read stories that had the Harry/Ginny pairing. In eighth grade I moved back to Riggins, ID and had about three friends who were as in love with Harry Potter as me but I still had my little group of friends. I was slowly being eaten by the internet at this time spending hours and hours online, This was the year that over Christmas break the first Harry Potter movie came out. That in and of itself is a funny story because we went to see it while in Santa Barbara with my dad but we ended up seeing Lord of The Rings. we saw it two days later with my step mom.
By the time I hit high school I was truly obsessed I wanted a cloak and I wrote/read/drew and focused on Harry Potter and anime equally. I started at a new school in Clearlake, CA and purposefully walked around with the books to make friends. First I picked up the twins who had sat with me at the assembly the first day of school. This then extended to Ellie and Britters in ceramics class we then added in the two Crystals and we all bonded more then you would think possible just because of this one tiny little subject. They were and are my family. These are the Marauders. This was also the year that I found out my best friend was a lesbian and in love with me and I had started dating the boy who is now my husband. Ellie also introduced me into the furry fandom. XD
For sophmore year it was really really hard because we moved to Phoenix, AZ when I didn't really want to because it meant leaving everyone behind even though Ellie had moved months and months before due to her step dads abuse. I haven't seen her since. We still talk though.
I had made myself a promise. I was tried of losing friends and moving constantly. I was not going to put forth an effort to make friends this year since I would just be moving again at the end of the year. So I started at Cactus High School and my plan worked well for about the first week. Then I started to talk to Tyler who convinced me to sit with him and his friends at lunch which lead me to meet the rest of my close group of friends here. Only two were as big Harry Potter nerds as myself though and only one do I still talk to... Eileen. She loved fanfictions and the art and everything. By October of that year when my birthday rolled around I was feeling pretty okay but still missing those in Cali...they then sent me a care package. A video with all the times we had hangouts and sleep overs and some new footage. Even now thinking about how that video has helped me through so many hard times I tear up. That video kept me from cutting, kept me from seriously hurting myself because it proved that I was loved by those around me.
Harry Potter has affected my life in so many ways good and bad but I will never ever lose my love for the books and the magical world they represent. I will not try to prove myself to you I will defend it until my dying days. But there is nothing in this world that has helped me in the ways that Harry Potter has.