Neville Longbottom

I am writing this for two reasons. 

Reason number one being that I am avoiding purchasing any books on my Kindle. I have been the owner of an Amazon Kindle for four days, and I can already see that this is going to be a problem. I feel like my love of reading has be re-rejuvinated (for about the hundredth time in my life), and all I want to do is get lost in book after book. The only problem is that books cost money, and money does not grow on trees--neither do ebooks.

The second reason for this post: the end of an era induced depression. What era is this, you might ask? It is the era of wondering if the Dursley’s would ever believe that the snake breaking free was an accident. The era of knowing that Hagrid had to be innocent of the awful accusations, but having no way to prove it. The era of craving revenge on Sirius Black for failing to be a trustworthy Secret Keeper, only to discover that the Potters were betrayed by a different man. The era of wondering just who could have put that name into the Goblet of Fire, and watching You Know Who rise to power once more. The era of secret armies named for the greatest wizard of all time. The era of perfectly orchestrated secrets and lies. The era of ending the war, once and for all. I am talking about the era of Harry Potter.

I truly don’t know what I am going to do at 2:30 Friday morning when I leave the theatre after seeing a new Harry Potter movie for the first time- for the last time. I know I might sound crazy, but I know I am not the only person in this world whose life has not been impacted by The Boy Who Lived. Take these people:

Apparently they are worried about getting a good seat.

Harry Potter is magical for many reasons: JK’s brilliance at creating such a thorough world full of deep characters, the incredible adventures that come with beginning each chapter, the hours of endless discussion and theories that happen between HP fanatics, the costumes at the premiers, and the camaraderie that occurs when two people discover their mutual love for Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Neville, Luna, Fred, George, Sirius, Remus, Molly, Dumbledore, and, yes, even Severus.

Most of all, Harry Potter is magical because no where else could we have watched a chubby little boy transform from this

to this