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I wrote this poem early yesterday AM. I hope you can identify with it as we all bite our nails over book 7. If you like it, spread the word and hopefully Jo can read it before the book comes out:) Feel free to email me at joshswenson@msn.com

7/7/7
Urgent owl post to J.K. Rowling

On this, the seventh, as we wait
Feelings hard to articulate
Two weeks more – it doesn’t matter
Harry’s story is what we’re after.

Your Boy who Lived charmed our hearts.
He swished and flicked us from the start.
Barely has he touched our shelves,
For in him we have seen ourselves.

We took the train from nine and three quarters.
We’ve been avid Gryffindor supporters.
And in the mirror of Erised
We faced our deepest dreams and dreads.

To us the Sorting Hat confided
Where our hearts have long resided.
We’ve seen our rights and felt our wrongs
Through Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs.

Growing up with Harry, we can relate
From loneliness to friends then awkward dates.
For some of us, from broken families
What we needed most was the Weasleys.

We’ve aged together, our breath is bated
Our life, like Harry’s, complicated.
We struggle and hide but here’s the truth;
He’s been our time turner to keep our youth.

We’ve escaped our Voldemorts and Privet Drives
After six books we’re still alive.
But as we approach the final stop
We pause a moment before the drop…

We’re gathering our hopes and steeling our nerves
To find out if Voldemort gets what he deserves.
“Neither can live while the other survives”
Please let Harry live as the seventh month dies!

Albus we lost, and Sirius
Surely it was real to us.
The phoenix song reverberates
Two more deaths, such awful weights.

At 12:01 on the 21st
We’ll hope for the best being prepared for the worst.
With books in our hands we’ll head to our beds
But not to sleep until they’ve been read.

Jo, please remember, you tread hallowed ground
Our childhood laid bare, our heart strings unwound.
We’re scared silly, we admit it, but you have our trust.
Go now, be brave, and do what you must.

One last request, we ask: please be our Patronus
And most of all thanks for the magic you’ve shown us.

Posts: 17159 · Posted: July 9, 2007 2:53 am Post subject:

aww thats nice. I particularly like "please let harry live as the seventh month dies" and "be our patronus"
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Excellent read Very Happy

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Whoa... that's really good!
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Posts: 102 · Joined: Jul 7, 2007 Posts: 102

that made my day!

Beautifully written, Im quite a fan of poetry Very Happy

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Posts: 3282 · Posted: July 9, 2007 9:58 am Post subject:

wow, that is deep. i never really thought about HP that way, but i know its true. we all relate to harry in some way. i wanna hear Jo's response if she ever gets this and reads it and replies back.
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Posts: 63 · Joined: Mar 16, 2007 Location: Ohio Posts: 63

that wasn't deep.. it was cavernous..

Posts: 282 · Joined: Mar 13, 2007 Posts: 282

That is an awesome read!
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Posts: 13 · Joined: Jul 8, 2007 Location: NY, USA Posts: 13

Awww! T-T; Amazing.

[You know you're obsessed when.... this made you cry.]

I'm officially obsessed.

Posts: 17 · Joined: Jul 11, 2007 Location: missouri, usa Posts: 17

your completely right abt how we can relate. harry has gone though so much but that is how we can realte.

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