It All Ends Here

WARNING: IF YOU ARE EASILY UPSET BY EXTREME NERDINESS, HATE HARRY POTTER, BOOKS, AND MEMORIES AND/OR ARE A TWILIGHT FAN, DON'T READ THIS POST.

HOLD ON. IF YOU'RE ANY ONE OF THE ABOVE, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? ACTUALLY, YOU'RE PROBABLY VERY UPSET ALREADY, SO JUST GO AWAY.

The post starts...now.

LOOK AT THIS. Just look at this.

Fine. Blogger is being stupid, and you can't look at this. But here, I am going to make this link all linky and then you can.

AARGH. Look at...ah...this.

THIS, my friends, is the NEW POSTER for the FIRST PART of the SEVENTH MOVIE that comes out in NOVEMBER but now doesn't seem so far away.

I am mistaken in my assumption that everyone I know has the same level of Harry Potter furfling fangirliness as I do. (I am just making up words like anything today.)

The last movie is coming out in July of next year, and I am for sure going to overestimate how far away that really is. Next year.

When I finally grew up and properly discovered the Internet and realized that (internal gasp) other people in the world like Harry Potter too (and, for some reason, all of them are on the Internet!), I was kind of surprised at how well all of this was going. I didn't even know about all of the Pottermania until well after 2007, and once I did, I half-wondered why everything didn't just dry up after Deathly Hallows.

It was the movies, mostly. The fact that there were actors to interview and movies to see and directors to criticize made it all almost..okay, I guess. At least, it did for me once I puzzled all of this out. (Which didn't take that long. Because I am a prodigal genius who enjoys telling lies about myself, like about the fact that I am a prodigal genius.)

And that was fine, because at that point the Half-Blood Prince movie hadn't even come out.

But now NOVEMBER 2010 is staring me in the face and I felt very, very sad.

Especially after seeing this.

The Magic Begins and It All Ends Here.

I grew up with these books, and while I believe that I would still really read, I do not think that I would appreciate books as much as I do had I not read them.

As utterly stupid as this sounds, I remember the first time that I held the hardback copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and how much hope I had, and how bittersweet everything felt when I was done.

Will the movie feel the same as it did with the book? I don't think so, but I know that I am going to be very upset when this is all over.