Just got home from seeing the final Harry Potter movie on opening night. I hadn't been able to get excited for the longest time. In fact, all the way up until like.... it started i wasn't really excited. At least not the way i should have been. Though standing in like with all the nerds who were dressed up was a lot of fun. Every one being so into it, everyone being so devoted to the books that they camp out outside the theater for hours before the movie starts. That was my friends.
My friends had the best costumes there that i saw. They had the most creative costumes with the most attention to detail that only true fans could ever pull off.
They stayed up all night, they cooked, they worked, they strove; they succeeded. We may not have been able to put together the basilisk in time, but the best part is that if we had it would have been the best.
Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling give me hope that i will be able to create a story that can entertain and change people's lives the way Harry Potter did. It also gives me the greatest challenge of my life; if i can do something as great as that, it will be a miracle.
Harry Potter may be over. The books are over and now so are the movies. But Harry Potter will live on in the hearts of people like my friends. People who love the story enough that when they turned 11 they waited for their letter to be delivered to them by owl to tell them they were going to Hogwarts. Those are the people that can bring stories to life, can bring magic into the world, can be witches and wizards.
If there is such thing as magic, then it lives in my friends.
The train is leaving platform 9 3/4, but instead of taking us to Hogwarts it's taking us on another adventure. Harry Potter opened up a world of possibilities and adventures waiting to be had. A new step in our lives is beginning without us being able to look forward to the next Harry Potter. But it will always be there on our bookshelves waiting to be read again. And it will always be there ready to give us a break from what ever adventure life throws at us next.
