My childhood is ending :(

I mentioned in my first post how I'm addicted to Harry Potter, well I've decided that this post shall be Potter related.

My friend Jill (http://jillanderson92.blogspot.com/) and I were talking about how the final HP movie coincides with our last year at school. I read my first Potter book when I was in primary 4 or 5, so I've been a Pothead since I was about 7, that's 11 years of my life! If you do anything passionately for 11 years of your life, when it ends you're going to be hit hard. Anyway, Harry Potter's kinda how I met Jill, she introduced me to it, so it's her fault I have to go through this painful transaction into adulthood! Being new to the world of HP, at the tender age of 7 I read them out of order, I had no idea which book came first, so I read 'Chamber of Secrets' first and was confused as hell! Eventually I pulled my finger out and read them in order - being a small child I had no way of actually buying the books for myself, so they were all borrowed and read, then borrowed and re read from the school library. If I was to look at a record of the books I took out of the school library back then it would've been Harry Potter and Roald Dahl the whole way down.

I can still remember the day I actually got my own Harry Potter, as usual with me it was out of order and I was the proud owner of 'Prisoner of Azkaban' before I had any of the others. Slowly but surely I collected all books that were out at this time, so 1-4 and read them over and over again while waiting impatiently for the newest book to come out. To pass the time while waiting for this book Jill, myself and 2 young boys who were also Potheads used to act out scenario's from the books at play times :D My life was awesome! The proudest moment of my life has to be when I found the most perfect wand in the world. It was a metal rod, but I thought I was the bee's knee's (do bee's have knee's?)

The point of this blog is to highlight the fact that Harry Potter is coming to an end with the release of the final movie - 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2' -  in July of this year and this just happens to be the end of my secondary level education, which means I have to grow up and enter the big bad world of being an adult. I'll never be able to wait outside a tatty old bookshop in the middle of town at midnight waiting for the newest book to come out. I won't be able to stay up til 3 or 4 in the morning reading the newest book and getting so excited about what might happen. I'll never have to panic about whether or not Voldemort might actually win the war, because now I know what happens. My childhood is essentially over.

Sure I can re-read the books (AGAIN), but you don't get the same buzz as you do reading them for the first time. I still have heated debates with people over how the movies compare to the books (the books win hands down), and I don't think I'll ever forgive the people who made the movies for what they did to Narcissa Malfoy. Like the rest of her family, Narcissa is supposed to be platinum blonde and have a continuous look of superiority

This is what she looks like in the movies -

Why is she wearing a dead rabbit on her head?

As a die hard fan, I was so upset by this ridiculous decision and I know Jill was also furious.

Ah Harry Potter, I'll miss you.