Harry Potter Appreciation Post

     Happy Wednesday! I hope the first half of your week has gone well! Today we had another (and probably our last) snow day. It was so nice to have four much-needed days to just relax and forget about school! Although these four snow days have been great, I'm kind of ready to get back in the routine. Four extra days of sitting on the couch can get a little old after a while. Fortunately, I happen to be a HUGE Harry Potter fan, so we spent our snow days watching all eight Harry Potter movies! It was honestly the best way to spend them. Today we watched the sixth, seventh, and eighth movies, and by the last one I was ready to watch them all over again!
     Some of you may be wondering, What's so great about these movies anyway? Well let me tell you: the Harry Potter series is the most popular series of novels in the history of the world (with over 400 million copies sold worldwide) so I'm obviously not alone in my love for the series. If you haven't read the books, I strongly urge you to do so, no matter how old you are! I'm not exactly sure how many times I've read the books (certainly not 40 times like some crazy die-hard fans who clearly have too much time on their hands) but I have been reading them in a cycle for as long as each book has been out (don't worry, I usually only read like two to four pages per night because I'm so exhausted).
     I'm actually not entirely sure why I feel so personally connected to the books. They've just always been apart of my childhood. Whenever something wrong was going on in my life, I used Harry Potter for comfort; it was my escape from reality. It gave me happiness at times of great sadness. It's as simple as that. I really wish that I could meet J.K. Rowling to express in person my sincerest thanks. She is the person responsible for my happy childhood. In her books, I felt like I'm going on adventures with Harry, Ron, and Hermione, not just reading about them. The world of Harry Potter is so completely opposite from our own, and that's the best part about it.

Carpe Diem,
Brooke