"Long Live Harry Potter."
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Deathly Hallows was utterly FANTASTIC. I cried at least six times. It followed the book so so so well, and the acting and effects were SUPERB.
I can't believe it's the beginning of the end.
Harry Potter has always been such a huge part of my life. I waited for the books, went to the premieres--the whole shebang. And now... there's only one left.
Of course, I'll always have fanfiction, but somehow, it's just not the same. It's not what I originally fell in love with. It's not the characters that have found a place in my heart.
Whenever there has been a new book or movie, it's always been the magic that I've needed in my life at that moment in time. Fanfiction is wonderful and brilliant, but it lacks some of the memory and enchantment of the original. JKR is my inspiration, and I'm not entirely sure what's going to happen once it's over.
I'm not even sure what else there is to say. I don't really have anything deep or insightful. But Harry Potter means the world to me, and that in itself has always been enough.
Love Always,
Kayla
Understand completely, Kayla. It was so awful and amazing at the same time, like when Ron made sure Harry didn't leave without he or Hermione ("don't tell her I said that.") and then when he yelled at Harry that his parents were dead and he doesn't know what it was like. The movie was amazing, just prolonging the brilliance that is Harry Potter, and I don't know what I will do after the second installment. Like you said, Fanfiction is like a bandaid on a broken leg. Almost good enough, but not quite.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, for a broken leg, a bandaid might nor even be good enough, go you get the analogy.
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And "Long live Harry Potter" makes my heart swell every time. That and when, one the train, Neville said, "He's not here, idiots."
We write more of course. That's the beauty of fanfiction we can continue what the wonderful JKR started :) but I understand Kayla. I grew up with those books, they practically taught me how to read and JKR inspired me to write. I remember waiting for the Order of the Phoenix and waiting for the movies and being sorely disappointed when they missed things from the book that I was so looking forward to see. I remember sneaking the Prisoner of Azkaban into my room and reading when I should have been doing my homework. You're right though, fanfiction is like a band aid on a broken leg.
ReplyDeleteLong live Harry Potter!
Going through Harry Potter withdrawal at the moment.
ReplyDeleteI know exactly what you mean and I agree.
I can't really get on FF right now, so I'm commenting in reply to your AWESOME beginning.
ReplyDeletefirst off. . . the prologue bit is beautiful. seeing as I've already read this story, I'm trying to fit what you said in. Like how he refused an offer too good. . . im guessing that hasnt happened. anyway. . .
so they live in a mill place? that's pretty snazzy. well not really, but you get that gist.
I liked it. and you know how you might change it so vanessa is diehard loving remus, not your plan at the beginning to like the Pads? well don't change it. later in the story, she can always say she originally thought she liked Sirius, but she never really got to know Remus. how he was background info to her until James and Lily became friends and all that. i think it gives her more character if she originally chooses someone over Remus, but then, after going through a little bit of knowing him, decides she chose wrong, and remus is where it's at. Sirius was originally in the picture. . .but after choices, life, and other things, she suddenly found herself in need of someone more stable, someone with pure love. someone who would never fully be able to grasp that love without some worries. Sirius kinda just takes a wild ride. I fell Vanessa is one of those girls who needs. . . well a Remus type a guy. Maybe she originally thought that she needed something wild, that her life was too dull. I don't know. But it adds more depth to her as an OC. That my idea.
plus. . . i love it. the original I mean. you had the ending. . . something I have for my novel (which i haven't planned the least bit. just the ending. I know who dies and all that). look, stories aren't supposed to just magically appear (pun by accident). we have to create them with are own minds, and even if we plan, the journey is gonna change some things. I originally knew a plan of Summer with potter. then I introduced Selina, and Sirius became much more important, and suddenly it wasn't just a lily/james story. It was MY story, something that had just happened when I was writing. I put myself into it, with my own humor, not someone else's. It was supposed to be longer, but when does length matter? when does anything matter except the story? the words don't, the people don't (usually), but what we receive from that story is what matters. If Jo changed Harry's name to James II, and made it six years instead of seven, or shortened some parts off, i doubt people would love it less.
What i'm trying to say is, you have the ending. and you have the basic plot and the "big" events. ignore everything else, just let the story take shape itself. You might just skip some events to create better ones, you might add some, delete some, possibly create ANOTHER character. life changes. you think Jo began the entire series knowing the plan? she knew the beginning and the end. she just needed the middle. and everyone knows the middle is always in the midst of change. Let the story write itself. When you're writing it, don't take anything back, don't add anything. JUST WRITE. i don't get why some people don't understand that to make a great story, all you have to do is write to your best ability with all your soul. POUR everything into this, and you won't be disappointed.Writing. . . well it's just Life. . . or something like that. Everything good (at least in my opinion) i've written has a small, or large, imprint of me in it. Love the story, and it will love you back.
~Nicholas Edward Francis Xavier Rivero (last name)
(ExP)