ExOmni
Joined: Jul 26, 2007
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 Posted: July 26, 2007 10:28 pm Post subject: Thank you, Joanne Rowling. |
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I recently wrote out my thoughts about the whole series, and it's place in my life. These books... are wonderful. Anyways, jus wanted to share this with you all:
I still remember writing my name out on that slip of paper, and placing it in that fated little jar. When the time came to draw a winner, what luck or magic put my name in those clutching fingers I know not, but, like the conscious mutterings of the sorting hat, it would bring me on a fantastic journey through a vivid world I had never dreamed of. I would soon be clutching my newly-won copy of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", reading in pitch black, by flashlight, of a mysterious abandoned house, a slithering snake, a shrowded creature within. From the first page I was captivated, drawn in to this wonderful world from the moment I lifted the cover of this beautifuly illustrated, hard-bounded, hefty volume.
Perhaps this entry should be titled "thank you South Lansing Capital Area District Library", for if it weren't for you, I'd have never discovered this fantasy world, that up until that moment I had only heard of from sadly close-minded and ignorant individuals decrying it's "occult evils."
I had never read a Harry Potter book, but from that moment on, the vivid fantasy of the Twiwizard Tournament, the adventurous escapades through the halls of Hogwarts, the captivating characters and emotional relationships I hope to never forget (or, if to forget, then to rediscover later with as much fascination as when I was a ten year old under the covers with a flashlight in hand) -- they became an amazing fantasy world that I so cherished my every page within.
I would soon rent the previous three volumes, and when the fifth finally released three years later, beg my mother to buy it. I have read these books with such fervor and excitement no other book has ever been able to acheive, indeed, no other movie or television series or videogame or word-of-mouth tale has ever acheived. These are works of such unrelenting beauty. Books that I know, in my heart, will never be matched by any others in their vivid role in my life, as the fantasy universe I have grown up in.
I feel so immensly blessed to have been able to experience these books. To grow up reading them.
Thank you Joanne Rowling. You've done something truly great. |
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