Got the World on a String

Have you ever read a book that just changes your perspective on EVERYTHING?

Whatever you do or wherever you go you are constantly refrencing this book or you see someone and say “that is exactly how I pictured this character!!!” When I encounter a book like this i tend to read it repeatitivly until I have memorized what exactly has occured and I have analyzed each and every action of the characters. For me this book is Harry Potter, but don’t think I am one of the cliches.

I love Harry Potter, I always have. In all honesty, I was a bad fan.. As I was in kindergarten when the first book became a movie, my fan-itude branched out from the connections I made to the movies. I watched the first three movies before deciding to read the series. Looking back on it now, I feel almost as though I am hypocritical when I tell people who have just seen the movies that they aren’t true fans. I act as though I am a superior fan sometime, failing to acknowledge that not all Harry Potter fans have to be of the same mold. Personally, I think everyone with the ability to read should read the books because they transform the readers world forever. I am proud to say that I read every book that had been published in a week one summer. Soon thereafter, I read them AGAIN. I am making a much bigger deal out of Potter than I should be, but I’ve always wanted to write a piece on Potter…

I take Latin now, my friends joke that I only take the class to feel closer to the Wizarding community and less like a Muggle. Every time I read a word that resembles a spell I ask my teacher the exact meaning. My best friend in the class and I will jokingly cast spells at eachother (she too is a “Potterhead”). We got so eccentric that we now have our own wands, we take them to Latin class and Latin class only. We love Harry Potter, and the world that J.K. Rowling created, I feel closer to the true meaning because I truly understand various spells.

What I love most about Harry Potter is the world that I escaped to as a child. The second I began to read the words almost flew off the pages, swirling around my imagination, creating an alternate universe. Any time that I needed an escape from reality, I would cross through platform nine and three quarters and my life would revolve around Defense Against the Dark Arts instead of defending myself against the brother that would never stop tickling me.

So Yes, I know this post is really lame and lots of people will judge me for posting it, but I LOVE HARRY POTTER. ‘nuf said.

Voltaire is regarded as a man before his time. His comical state of mind has led to various papers and theory’s written on his behalf. His quotes are witty and truthful.. This is among the greatest accomplishments any one man can achieve. The truth in his humor is what made him great.

• “Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. “

Hmm… I think that this is more applicable to anything that is too personal to be spoken is sung. Songs are poetry, poetry isn’t unspoken stupidity, its a personal release of emotion.

• “As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.”

Whats the difference between an absurdity and an atrocity???

• “Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

It is said that people create their own luck. We put ourselves in circumstances that will permit us to become luckier. There are many similarities between Luck and Chance aren’t there? If Luck is about the circumstances that we put ourselves in that are bound to go out in favor of us, than what is chance???

• “Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”

The goats and the lambs.

• “Common sense is not so common.”

Dwelling on the commonalities of today will not make us the common people of tomorrow. Concentrating on the extraordinary, and developing our own uniqueness will make us the future.