HEY, YOU! YEAH, YOU, THE ONE WITH THE SCAR AND GLASSES.
ATTENTION HARRY POTTER FANS!
I has attention? Good.
So, if you know me, you probably know that I'm not hugely into Harry Potter. Nope. In fact, I kinda never liked it. But recently I've been...well, kinda drooling over the trailer for the new movie. It looks good. Really, really good. I was thinking about maybe waiting until some of my movie watching sites come out with it and then catch up on all the movies just to see if I might possibly, maybe enjoy the books (since everyone knows the books are always better than the subsequent movies). I've always been a fan of magic and wizardry (I've obsessed with Merlin since it came to NBC. Now I watch the series on Casttv.com before it even comes to the US. Don't you love those Brits?), I've just always thought Harry Potter was overly acclaimed.
I think this stems from when the movies first came out. I don't recall where exactly it was, but I think we were in Hollywood and it was the opening premiere of the movie. I've always been rather small, and we were just trying to get to the car so we can go home seeing as it was a five hour ride back and we wanted to egt home at a decent time, but there was a huge crowd of people waiting in line to see the movie and as we were struggling through the crowd there was a ginormous scream of rabid fangirls/boys and I was knocked over in the rush. I lost a tooth that day. I never found out who they were rushing after, but I'm fairly certain it was one of the actors who sent over a security gaurd who sat me down with the first aid kit.
So, yeah. Bit of a dislike of the hype that is Harry of the Potter. However, knowing the growing interest inside me, listen to this. Yesterday evening as I was getting ready for bed, mom calls me into the room talking about a mom of a couple of my friends. She says that Danielle, the mom, got tickets for her whole family to see the Midnight showing of the new Harry Potter movie. Good for her, right? Well, Chris, her son, had already got tickets for him and a friend so she was left with an open ticket for a friend of her daughters to go. Of course, this is on a school night (Thursday) and she knows of very few people who'd let their children stay up that late when they have to go to school the next day and did I mention that I homeschool?
Yeah. Mom has been rearranging my school schedule so I can do things all this week. Babysitting, helping make food for families. I went to the zoo not too long ago with some friends. Needless to say, mom likes me social. So Danielle and mom ask if I want to go and, knowing that I have said opportunity and said budding interest, I say yes.
So, this Thursday, I'm going to see the new movie. But the thing is...I KNOW NOTHING! T_T Someone help me here. I have very little clue what Harry Potter is even about, other than it's a wizardry school or something, so if anyone wants to clue me in, tell me where I can read the books (online, preferabbly), or WHATEVER, I'd be thankful.