The life story of Harry Potter is quite a popular one, it actually being the best-selling book series worldwide. It has been translated into 75 other languages, and, obviously, J.K. Rowling has made a huge fortune off the 450 million plus copies that were sold. For those of you who haven’t happened to pick up one of the seven books yet, this series is about Harry Potter (duh), a wizard whose parents were murdered by the Dark wizard Voldemort. The “Dark Lord” did something completely wrong when trying to kill the one-year old Harry and almost killed himself instead. Ten years later, eleven-year old Harry is off to the Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he learns about magic. In each book, Voldemort comes back in different forms and tries to murder Harry, but in the end, Harry ends up killing Voldemort instead.
Anyway, the reason the Harry Potter series is so important to me is not because most people like it, but because it opened a whole new world to me (a.k.a an even bigger imagination.) After reading it for the first time, my brain literally went “Woah!” I had always thought everything that could happen already happened (the earth is, after all, 4.6 billion years old.) But after that, I realized that humans have only discovered 5% of the earth’s oceans, and haven’t even traveled to Mars yet, never mind getting out of the Solar System. Anything is possible. Maybe there’s a parallel universe where magic is real and people do play Quidditch on broomsticks. Who knows? That’s what I love about this series. It led me to question life itself, and to be even more creative. Not only that, but J.K. Rowling is a great writer. Even after reading the series four times, I still can’t stop wanting to read it another time around.
Alyssa Pilecki
No comments:
Post a Comment