HP 7.2

Back in 2001 Jacob, being 3, was too young to see the first Harry Potter.  Patrick, being 6, might have been young too, but he loved the book and really wanted to go, so Anita and I took him.  Thus began the tradition.  Patrick read each book as it came out.  Jacob had the first three (maybe four) read to him.  (not so much into reading them himself)  He finally saw the movies on DVD and began to come see them around movie four.

Last night the four of us went to see the last one ~ HP 7.2.  In 3D.  Anita won the screening tickets and we saw it 3 days before the US release!  Fun to be the first.  It was really good and I have to admit that I was a little teary at the end.  The end of it all.  My kids were babies when this started and now they are teenagers.  Harry Potter has been their childhood.

As I watched I was reminded about how GOOD the message in these books/movies is.  I'm always amazed that people have wanted to ban them because they 'glorify witchcraft' ~ I wish people would actually read before they make a judgment.  I can't find it in the book, but in 7.2, when Harry is in the ghostly Kings Cross Station speaking with the dead Dumbledore ("Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?" ... "Of course this is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"), Dumbledore says something like, "Words.  Ah, words.  The greatest of our magical power.  They have the ability to destroy and they have the ability to repair." Ah, words.  They are the most powerful tool people have.  What power our words have.
He also says, "Do not pity the dead, Harry.  Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love." 
Such threatening messages, don't you think?  Sadly, some people do.

And the new is over ~ we don't have another book or another movie to look forward to.  That is sad, but I am glad that I was caught up in the excitement of Harry Potter while it happened.