Harry Potter - A new beginning
'Tell me one last thing', said Harry. 'Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?'
Dumbledore beamed at him, and his voice sounded loud and strong in Harry's ears even though the bright mist was descending again, obscuring his figure.
'Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?'
And that summarises the Harry Potter series. Muggles, old and young, have always been fascinated by the word - magic. Harry Potter has been able to capture that figament of imagination in every soul which finds pleasure fantasising. Mind, not soul, you could say, but as Dumbledore explains, after all in the case of Harry Potter its all the same.
Harry Potter, people say is a phenomenon. Its nonpareil I would say. Have you not yearned to be in a school like Hogwarts. Have you not felt the urge to step on to a broomstick wishing it would fly. Have you not envied the fascinating subjects learnt by witches and wizards. Have you not dreamt of dragons, giants, unicorns, centaurs......
But the Harry Potter series is more than all this. It is the ease with which the author talks about friendship, loyalty, choices, love, and about death that really mesmerises you. "Is is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." she says. And that is the core essence on which the entire series is conceived. And she handles the notion of death with such a rational perspective that we start looking at it on a whole new dimension.
I believe that she has added friendship, loyalty, love and death in one huge couldron to conjure up a whole new universe that has left every reader hypnotised. And of course the most quintessential ingredient that has made this potion truly remarkable is - 'magic'
After all everything that happens in our mind is reality, the rest is mere fantasy.
Dumbledore beamed at him, and his voice sounded loud and strong in Harry's ears even though the bright mist was descending again, obscuring his figure.
'Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?'
And that summarises the Harry Potter series. Muggles, old and young, have always been fascinated by the word - magic. Harry Potter has been able to capture that figament of imagination in every soul which finds pleasure fantasising. Mind, not soul, you could say, but as Dumbledore explains, after all in the case of Harry Potter its all the same.
Harry Potter, people say is a phenomenon. Its nonpareil I would say. Have you not yearned to be in a school like Hogwarts. Have you not felt the urge to step on to a broomstick wishing it would fly. Have you not envied the fascinating subjects learnt by witches and wizards. Have you not dreamt of dragons, giants, unicorns, centaurs......
But the Harry Potter series is more than all this. It is the ease with which the author talks about friendship, loyalty, choices, love, and about death that really mesmerises you. "Is is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." she says. And that is the core essence on which the entire series is conceived. And she handles the notion of death with such a rational perspective that we start looking at it on a whole new dimension.
I believe that she has added friendship, loyalty, love and death in one huge couldron to conjure up a whole new universe that has left every reader hypnotised. And of course the most quintessential ingredient that has made this potion truly remarkable is - 'magic'
After all everything that happens in our mind is reality, the rest is mere fantasy.
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