HP Generation

Lately I've been talking in a dreadful British accent, crying over the death of a 3D animated character and engaging in conversations about what will happen in the next (and final) chapter of the movie.

If Harry Potter aka the Boy Who Lived had popped up, then congratulations! Plus points if you could relate to any of them, since we are living the in the HP Generation - kids who wish their acceptance letters for Hogwarts would come in the mail and scrutinized the budding romances as the characters eventually grew up.  

My first encounter with the book was when I was twelve. Oftentimes I would spend my time in the library once classes were done. One day, I saw a tattered book of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and remembered a couple of my classmates talking about it during lunchtime. It was in the best-seller list in the bookstores I've visited in the mall as well. At the time, the only books I read were Sweet Valley and Babysitters Club.

Fantasy books were never really of my liking, I didn't like sci-fi and preferred to read about stories that I could relate to the characters (thus the chick-lit ;). Despite of this, I decided to read and see what the fuss is all about. After a couple of chapters, I got hooked on JK Rowling's enchanting world of witchcraft and wizardry. Just like millions of others across the globe, my eyes devoured as the adventures of Harry Potter unfolds - from the moment he left his Muggle world till the moment he finally kills Voldemort and lives happily ever after with Ginny Weasley. 

Sadly over the years, I eventually drift apart from my love of reading thanks to the so-called priorities of high school drama. Looking back, a little part of me still wishes I should have finished the series. 

Anyways, back to HP 7. I watched it twice over the course of four days and cried both times. What can I say, Dobby's death was utterly heartbreaking. He may look like a shriveled mutated elf at first, but once you see his loyalty towards Harry Potter and see how kind-hearted he is, the character really grows on you. If I had an house-elf like him, the first thing I'll do is give him a decent looking shirt for once and treat him like a friend. Okay, weird much on writing about house-elves. I swear I am this close to possibly creating a S.P.E.W fan-site.

It may be a profit-scheming plan to make the last movie in two separate installments, but all I can say is well done. I wouldn't want to say goodbye to the magical world anytime soon. 

RIP Dobby, the House-Elf
To jumpstart your Remembering Dobby days, please watch this 'tribute' video

Cheers to being the generation who grew up with Harry Potter

Right after we watched the first time

Our attempt to make the Deathly Hallows sign (Mikee G. and I - The Most Powerful Wand, Margs and Carol - Resurrection Stone,  Miko and Miguel - Invisibility Cloak)

Yes, we all have a little HP geekiness inside all of us.