Many I know use career moves or children's birthdays as milestones for their lives. Yesterday, I realized that I have used the Harry Potter series as my milesones. For example, I read my first Harry Potter book after finding it tattered and used at Kelly's house in Bloomington. I believe ALL the Anderson's had read it a couple of times, before I got my hands on it. I think that was sometime in 1998 or so:
- Another example was at the turn of the century, and I distinctly remember little Stephen Anderson dazedly walking down the street (in SLC) after blistering through Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Stephen was only about 9 or 10 years old!
- In November 2001, the first movie came out Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Kelly and I rented a theater at Jordan Commons and invited 400 or our closest friends and family. Triscia dressed up as one of the portraits and asked everyone their password (answers we'd given our friends when we handed out the tickets, questions like, "Who's birthday are we celebrating?" Acceptable answer: Kujo or Greg--since they both had a birthday that month)
- The following day, my dad had a dinner for my mom's 75th birthday and hired a photographer to take a full family picture--of all the extended family.
- That picture was done barely in time to display at my dad's funeral a couple of weeks later.
I'm sure JK Rowling intended that the epilouge of the book/movie to be set about "14 years later" with Harry loading up his kids to go to Hogwarts on the train. It's been 14 years for the entire series (books and movies), to entirely play out. That's basically a generation. And, I simply love watching my little Harry's (example: prior post about Christian with Oscar), continue building their beautiful lives with their own magical moments of laughter, love, and the continuation of good always triumphing over evil.
Don't blink, 14 years goes way too fast. I don't want to miss a moment. I wish I could live forever. Oh, yeah....I will. :)
2 comments:
I was thinking about how much has changed last night when we took the kids to see the last movie last night, in Nov 01 I had a 7,4,3,1 & now 16,14,13,11.... 10 years or 14 it goes by way to fast!!!
Hi Loretta, I enjoyed your nostalgic and touching post. Glen and I have talked recently about how much we have enjoyed the Harry Potter series too.
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