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earlgreytea68

The End of My Harry Potter Decade

Jul 18, 2011 23:58

In the summer of 2000, I was in college, and my sisters played softball on traveling teams. Well, they did that most summers, but we are discussing that particular summer. I was never as serious about softball as they were, but I would tag along on the family travels.

( The Rest of My Long, Personal Harry Potter History )

the great harry potter re-read

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tuarwenancalime July 19 2011, 04:25:09 UTC

You know what this calls for, right?

A HP/Chaosverse Tete-a-tete.

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earlgreytea68 July 20 2011, 03:12:29 UTC

Awww, he could indeed. You just know the Doctor shared the books with him!

pncwho January 30 2012, 02:24:30 UTC

I can see it happening. They show up in the HP universe and the Doctor is immediately mistaken for Barty Crouch Jr... ;)

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rosa_acicularis July 19 2011, 05:44:51 UTC

Dude. Part II did not make me cry, but this:

...there is a little boy in the world--many, many little children in the world--who have not yet read the first line of the first page of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."

I am all happy weepy now, and full of feelings, damn you. ;)

earlgreytea68 July 20 2011, 03:13:06 UTC

Well, happy weepy is better than *sad* weepy, I think!

lorelaisquared July 19 2011, 11:14:39 UTC

Wow, you completely broke me with that last paragraph. I'm actually sitting here sobbing at the thought of all those little children out there who've yet to discover the magic. I think of my own Nephew who is only 1 but who's mother loved the books as much as I do and I know that one day she'll read them to him and he'll have this whole new world opened up to him. I think of my best friends children and the same. I think of how maybe, one day, I'll be lucky enough to read these with my own children. And yet I'm sad because those children will never likely comprehend the full scale of what HP has been for so many people. The way that it's become such a part of culture, the midnight parties the costumes all of it. It's something unlike anything that's ever happened before or ever likely to happen again ( ... )

earlgreytea68 July 20 2011, 03:14:49 UTC

It's true that they may never experience Harry Potter as the phenomenon that we experienced it as. But their Harry Potter experience will be special to them because it will be *theirs,* and there's something beautiful about that.

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earlgreytea68 July 20 2011, 03:15:16 UTC

I admit I'm jealous of him, getting to read all the books for the very first time!

flyninthetardis July 19 2011, 16:30:30 UTC

too be honest i think i must be in emotinal shock at the moment.
i remember smuggling the books into catholic school when i was about eight. hell i even remember saving a few copies from a book burning the local church was organising.
i mean jo taught me how to read.
ijust can't belive it's over.

earlgreytea68 July 20 2011, 03:16:58 UTC

Oh, wow! I'm so glad you saved copies! I will never understand burning these books, they can be read as allegory!

I can't believe it's over, either.