JK Rowling, Harry Potter and Me!!

I was one of those thousands, to buy "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" on its release date. I tend to laugh at myself when I think of this act of mine and the state of mind way back in ...

It was about six years back, somewhere in 2001, when i first came across this name called JKRowling and her creation, Harry Potter. Even then, I just heard those names, knew nothing about them or the three books that had been released already in a series of seven!

I was in my eleventh class then, and as a part of an assignment in English course, we were supposed to enact a radio show for about sixty minutes. Some of the girls with whom I was teamed up with came up with the idea of interviewing JKR with some funny questions such as "Do you believe in magic?!" It sounded really crazy to me, however, I had to agree to their plans for they had agreed to my plan of a conversation between Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. Well, for the next two years, I forgot these two names, well, not Newton and Einstein, but Rowling and Potter!!

Sometime in 2003, some crazy people in Chennai started the habit of dubbing almost every English movie that was released in the city. And as I was living Pondicherry, the local cable operators would screen such movies on Television. And one fine day, it was funny to see Hermione, with her blond hair, to speak in thamizh. I laughed.. laughed heartily!! She looked very cute to me and I loved her... well, that started dying away as she entered into her teenage... Now I don't like the Hermione of 17, as much as I liked her when she was 12 or 13.

And after I entered into my college, Sriram made me read the first book... Philosopher's.. er... Sorcerer's ... er.. whatever!! And I read it. Not bad! Well, the book was totally different from the movie I had seen. Only when I read the second book, I learnt that I had seen the second movie. So, I had known the important plot details...

It was "The Prisoner of Azkaban" that lured me completely into Harry Potter! Nobody would be able to control their praise for JKR while thinking of her ingenuity in stating so-well concelead hints... Be it Scabber's broken finger or The Whomping Willow... And of course, the order in which she reveals statements and facts, only to use them later in the cleverest fashion possible... well, Hats off to JKR!

And then "The Goblet of Fire" ... excellent plot but lengthy!!
And I felt "The order of the phoenix" to be really boring... there was no story absolutely and I could not stand flirting at Hogwarts, be it Harry or even Hermione!

However, "The half blood prince" showed indications of a gripping climax, which Rowling was aiming at in her last venture! And after its release, I was just in a position, "Well, I have got to read the last book, just to know what happens... just to know the truth.. just to know 'everything' "

And yeah, I knew everything on the 22nd of July.
Rowling is a master story teller!!

Why should there be an "Expelliarmus" from Draco towards Dumbledore in HBP!! Why should Draco try to kill him??!! All knitted well enough to ensure that the Harry becomes the true master of ... You shall know what when you read it!!

And it gives a great feeling from inside when Harry Potter remarks of Snape, "Probably, the bravest of men I ever knew to exist!"

And Snape, has been my favourite of all ever since "The Philosopher's Stone" and thereby... he shall continue to be forever!!