User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4200575-20110725165922

I’m going to make a childish confession. When I was a kid, I started reading a book titled “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”. It was awesome and I soon began to wonder what the hell I was doing living among muggles when I could be a wizard. After I finished the first book, J.K Rowling had me hooked. Harry and I were best friends, and I always believed that I didn’t get to go to Hogwarts because owls could not fly all the way to the Dominican Republic because of the hot weather and the lack of postal service (Don’t judge, I was a child). Even though I was going to attend Gryffindor (I took several online quizzes and the Sorting Hat was going to send me to Gryffindor, your lost Slytherin!). I wasn’t attending Hogwarts but regular elementary school (I know it sucks, right). No worries there, I still had to read a series of books regarding the adventures of Harry Potter that I didn’t know I was going to read throughout my teen years. I believe I speak for everyone who’s a Potter fan when I say that those nights missing dinner, or staying up until 4AM reading that last chapter, skipping parties or a basketball games just to finally finish that book, WAS WORTH IT. I’m lucky I had the chance to grow up with Harry, Ron and Hermione (literally, because I started reading the book when I was 11), and seeing all the action in my mind as I read the books and in the movie series later on. The reason why I’m writing this article today is because the last Harry Potter movie just came out. Every time I walk down the city and see one of those bloody posters announcing, “it all ends”, I can’t help but feeling sad. However, I disagree with the movie producers and the marketing team in charged of those “It all ends” all over Manhattan. It does not end, it will never end. As part of the Harry Potter generation, we have the duty to continue with this literary masterpiece. Just like older generations continued with the Lord of the Rings saga, we have to continue with the Harry Potter one. I’m not going to lie when I say I thought of using Alohomora everytime I forgot my house keys and I had to wake up my parents. Or cursed my math professor with a Stupefy, or the Imperio deadly curse. Better yet, coming from a country with daily blackouts, a Lumos spell comes in handy to shine my path from my room to the kitchen.

For those who did not read Harry Potter and read this, you will think that I’m on crack. But you will not understand how much it meant to us to read about someone just like us who taught us about bravery and courage. About family and friends, especially the Weasley family (awesome family, but too many family members for that small house). Even look at Hermione and praise her ambition to take like 9 classes by using the Time Turner. I could write an entire book about the series but it is our duty to continue with the legacy that at least for me meant so much growing up. My aunt got scared once when I threw the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince book after reading that Dumbledore died. She was like “Dumbledore who?”, I just replied “You don’t understand” and she just answered “What I don’t understand is what pills are you mixing up”. Me and my group of friends never felt so attached to a book that you would wait for until midnight for the next one to come out and literally read the book in a day. My favorite one was Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire. The Tri-Wizard tournament was not just awesome but it kept you reading all night and it got better and better. My mom threatened me to hide one of the books if I didn’t socialize with my friends who were visiting me (fcuk my friends, I finished the book and there were still there!). Every time I listen to the Harry Potter theme song at the beginning of every movie, I get the chills (I still do). I will miss the mother*$%^@ and his friends, even Doby (I always wanted an elf, it’s a hard world out there without one). If you haven’t read the books, you’re missing so much and for the Twilight fans out there, Robert Pattinson made his debut appearance in the fourth movie of Harry Potter, so don’t come saying that Twilight is a literary masterpiece and yada yada. If you read the books, I feel your mourning spirit but make the best out of it and tell others and your kids in the future about the boy who you lived.