End of Ends

Say what you will, but collectively, this has hands down been the best - and only - series I have ever read. Fortunately, as much as adapted films can be, each has proved itself as good, if not better, than the last (with the exception of The Order of the Phoenix). But everyone is entitled a fluke once in awhile, right? Up until my sophomore year of college, I had been adamant not to hop onto (what I had believed to be) a childish bandwagon franchise. Knowing that the series started when Harry was roughly the same age as myself (~13ish, 6th grade), I wouldn't have dared to set aside time to read any of these. As a matter of fact, I didn't really know about it until about my freshman year of high school. So, until that one summer night after my freshman year of college, I had been stubborn enough not to even watch any of the movies. A friend forced me to sit down and stomach through the first movie - The Sorcerer's Stone. Within the first 10 minutes, I had planned in my head when and how I was going to get my hands on the first book of the series. The rest is history. I managed to finish the first six books within about 6 months and asked for the last one as a Christmas present. I wanted to savor the last of the last, so I took my time to digest most of it. That is, until one super rainy day during my first visit to San Diego. I started to read and after each page I started to realize just how fast I was flipping the pages. Needless to say, I only remember bits and pieces of it, but the feeling that it left within me I will not forget - an everlasting bond between myself and an entirely fictional world from the masterminded J.K.Rowling. Ultimately what this post is about, is that when I first watched the trailer for Part 1 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, chills ran through my body and before I knew it (yes, I will admit), my eyes welled up with tears. These weren't like those tears of a teeny-bopper's love of Edward Cullen (a whole different story), but tears of my senses and subconscious knowing that this film is half of the end of a series I have come to love. The storyline, characters, etc. is compelling enough to have drawn me in to a world of another's. I just hope I survive until July 2011 to make it to Part II...then my HP experience will be fulfilled. Until November, the trailer will suffice.

Chew on this, Twilight fans: