Harry Potter

When the books first started coming out, I tried to jump on the bandwagon and read them...I just couldnt get into it. It's not that I'm in that anti-Harry Potter/witchcraft/it's-not-Christian crap, (if that's your opinion, great, fine whatever, it's just not mine) I'm just not a big fan of sci-fi/fantasy literature or anything like that. Never seen The Lord of the Rings trilogy, not a Narnia fan either. Just not my genre...in fact the only thing remotely like that I've ever been interested is Highlander: The Series and my gosh--look at him!!! Who wouldnt be? lol

When my son started reading the books I tried to be ineteretsed again for him and I survived the first two movies. He had a Harry Potter birthday party when he turned ten and he read every book as soon as it came out.

A few years ago my oldest daughter began reading them when she was bored waiting for the next Twilight book to come out and she liked them, too.

Just this past year, my youngest daughter Brooke discovered them and is ALL into the world of Harry...so much so that she's about driven me crazy talking about it.

Of course, they HAD to see that last movie last week and that is ALL I've heard all weekend...how sad it is the series is ending, mom, we have to go to Universal to Hogwarts, I need a wand, blah blah blah!

I had been secretly GLAD the whole thing is over because I'm so sick of hearing about it and defending my choice to allow my CHRISTIAN children to read the books and watch the movies. But then Brooke posted the other day about how it was something that she, her sister and brother had all shared--their interest in the story...its timelessness and the fact that it was something all three grew up on. That struck a chord in this overly-nostalgic mother's heart! Yet another sign that my babies' childhoods have come /are coming to an end and so is a phase of my own life. They grow up so fast...

So so long, Harry! Thanks for being a part of our family, for creating an interest in reading in my children, for blessing them with hours of entertainment, for enabling me to think about my own convictions and be able to intelligently and genuinely defend them to others. You will be missed...for now. But in my 41 years I've learned that great stories and characters usually find their way into new generations and audiences and I have two nephews, a niece on the way and I'm sure one day, *gasp* grandchildren. I'm almost positive I'll be hearing your name again!

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