The Purple Wyrm

I admit, I’ve read the Harry Potter books. The stories are great for kids and adults. Who doesn’t like the tale of an underdog who finds he has special powers? The stories were good. The writing? Not so great. But anyways…

“The Tales of Beedle the Bard” is a collection of five wizard fairy tales written by J. K. Rowling. It will be auctioned off and all royalties for the work will go to a charity for institutionalized children.

That’s awesome.

So the last Harry Potter movie ever (unless they release some weird ‘all grown up’ sequel in a few years) has come to theaters and the masses are watching it with a mixture of joy and sorrow. I’m missing it at the theaters, but will pick it up on DVD when it comes out.

I’m 36 years old, and I’ve read Harry Potter books from the beginning. I don’t find them to be epics of modern literature, but I do recognize them for fun and easy fantasy stories that appeal to the masses. I like them. I own all the books and the DVDs up to The Half-Blood Prince and will get the rest. My kids like them, though neither have read the books (one’s autistic and one prefers comics and manga)For me it’s not the end of the Hogwarts Era or anything like that. There will be more books, more movies and more fantasy fun to be had.

But I can understand, for those who read “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” first at ten or eleven years old and is now in their twenties and have to say goodbye to their fantasy friend, how it can be hard. There was no book series that spanned ten years of growth and change like this when I was a kid.

Harry Potter will live on in the fiction world for a long time. Probably not as long as Lord of the Rings (which is good I think, considering one is a fantasy literature masterpiece and the other is a great bit of pop fiction). I think some may be upset at having nothing new from Potter’s world, but Hogwarts, Diagon Alley and the Burrow will always be there for us to visit.