hey pig!! i've decided to feature an editorial by a Brazilian HP fan from potterish.com. This is dedicated to all HP fans around the world and to some people who could never understand the true magic of Harry Potter.
Potter’s magical generation
By Larissa Almeida
Harry Potter. Nowadays, there isn’t a person who hasn’t at least heard about this name. These are the 11 letters that fascinate crowds of children and teenagers all over the world. After all, it is the greatest publishing phenomenon of late years.
No one has ever seen a work that could attract such amount of fans like the saga of the wizard with the scar shaped like a lightning. The books brake selling records, the movies raise an amazing box-office, and the series related products give a huge profit to the companies that commercialize them.
But it isn’t because of that I say that we live in the Harry Potter generation; such characteristics are only superficial. For me, what is truly admirable in the Potter phenomenon is hidden internally. What impresses the most isn’t how many books were sold, but the affection that the readers have towards them. The quantity of money that the movies raise isn’t so extraordinary if compared to the barely controlled anxiety and the sparkle on the fans’ eyes at a row to the movie on a premier day. And what matters the profit that comes with the newest Harry Potter notebooks if nobody can buy a fan’s smile when he looks to the cover and remembers his dearest character?
Being part of the Harry Potter generation isn’t just read every books, see every movie or collect every cards album; is to live all of this magic. This isn’t something that can be bought or sold, only felt. And makes me happy to know that a lot of people, just like me, really understand that. For the true fans, to like Harry Potter is something that defines them; and if I take in consideration the huge number of lovers of these books all over the world, I can conclude this is something that, consequently, defines this generation.
We can even pass these things along to our children and grandchildren, but certainly they won’t feel what we feel today. In the future there will be other children’s books and will be created other characters; and even if they remind us of the time when Potter used to prevail, it’ll never be the same. Because in the future all of this will be just remembered, but now in the present this is being lived. And I’m proud to say that I’m a part of the generation that lived Harry Potter, part of a generation that had their lives changed by the Boy-who-Lived, part of a generation that went through amazing adventures and met enchanting characters, part of a generation who learned great lessons through the words of a writer that attracted everybody in a magical way, and mostly, part of a generation that was capable of dream. And once you’re a part of this, you became a part of this forever. Because the seed that was cultivated in the hearts of each one that lives in this generation, will keep growing even with time passing. After all, the magic has no end for those who really believe in it.
No one has ever seen a work that could attract such amount of fans like the saga of the wizard with the scar shaped like a lightning. The books brake selling records, the movies raise an amazing box-office, and the series related products give a huge profit to the companies that commercialize them.
But it isn’t because of that I say that we live in the Harry Potter generation; such characteristics are only superficial. For me, what is truly admirable in the Potter phenomenon is hidden internally. What impresses the most isn’t how many books were sold, but the affection that the readers have towards them. The quantity of money that the movies raise isn’t so extraordinary if compared to the barely controlled anxiety and the sparkle on the fans’ eyes at a row to the movie on a premier day. And what matters the profit that comes with the newest Harry Potter notebooks if nobody can buy a fan’s smile when he looks to the cover and remembers his dearest character?
Being part of the Harry Potter generation isn’t just read every books, see every movie or collect every cards album; is to live all of this magic. This isn’t something that can be bought or sold, only felt. And makes me happy to know that a lot of people, just like me, really understand that. For the true fans, to like Harry Potter is something that defines them; and if I take in consideration the huge number of lovers of these books all over the world, I can conclude this is something that, consequently, defines this generation.
We can even pass these things along to our children and grandchildren, but certainly they won’t feel what we feel today. In the future there will be other children’s books and will be created other characters; and even if they remind us of the time when Potter used to prevail, it’ll never be the same. Because in the future all of this will be just remembered, but now in the present this is being lived. And I’m proud to say that I’m a part of the generation that lived Harry Potter, part of a generation that had their lives changed by the Boy-who-Lived, part of a generation that went through amazing adventures and met enchanting characters, part of a generation who learned great lessons through the words of a writer that attracted everybody in a magical way, and mostly, part of a generation that was capable of dream. And once you’re a part of this, you became a part of this forever. Because the seed that was cultivated in the hearts of each one that lives in this generation, will keep growing even with time passing. After all, the magic has no end for those who really believe in it.
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