Re-reading and watching Harry Potter
J. K. Rowling. I wonder if she ever realised what a phenomenon that little boy with the lightening scar and his stories would become. The first book came out when I was about 6 or 7, so I’m of the generation who well and truly grew up with the Harry Potter books and then the films. But what is it about the wizarding world of Hogwarts and Harry Potter that still keeps us so captivated? I don’t have the answer, but I felt the need to put down here just how much I love the books and (although to a lesser extent) the films. They formed such a huge part of my fictional world as I grew up, and the anticipation for each new book was huge. I have all the books sitting on a shelf back at my parents’ house, the final few particularly special due to the little birthday messages from my lovely grandad in the front who always used to encourage my love of reading. I guess the point of this post was that I realised over the last few months that none of my love for the Ha...