Harry Potter....if you havent figured it out yet.
The World of Harry Potter
The year was 1997. Technology had abducted the very soul of the human race. Children in this age grew up afflicted with screen-mania; be it that of the T.V, the cell phone, the videogame or the computer. Reading was considered to be an obsolete, arcane form of recreation, and was thus restricted to schoolwork. Unfortunately, we, today’s media aspirants, were a part of the same generation, the same mania. ENTER HARRY POTTER.
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, the story of an 11 year old boy who suddenly discovers that he is a famous wizard, took the world by storm. It was an instant rage, capturing the hearts of children and adults alike, catapulting itself into the bestsellers list. But above all, Harry Potter did what most books then could not - it reintroduced children to the joys of reading.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was only the second installment in the series, which had already received a cult-like status. Thousands of fans all over the world devoured the ‘Secrets’ that the chamber had to offer and yet another record was broken. If Philosophers Stone was a success, Chamber of Secrets was a phenomenon. Harry Potter had finally arrived. The subsequent titles in this series only served to establish J.K.Rowling as the Queen of Modern Fantasia, with the number of her subjects rising with each day.
I'm sure you must all be wondering why I've chosen such a seemingly outdated topic for my article. Hasn't Harry Potter been hyped enough? Yes, it has. Perhaps more than it deserved. But somehow when it came to writing about things that truly mattered to me, my books always took precedence. And HP was too huge to be ignored. And why not? Harry Potter has entertainment galore. It is a series that is absolutely bewitching and spell-binding (puns intended), a roller-coaster ride that will leave you yearning for more. Poignant, funny, yet exciting, it's like Bollywood masala movies with a little bit of everything thrown in, albeit under the masterful direction of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. So while Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K.Rowling's 6th offering has been released worldwide, my article will only serve to remind the readers of how much we all still need a little bit of magic in our lives.
Harry Potter re-evoked the dying passion for books and reading amongst youngsters like us. Our minds, hijacked by computers, had forgotten the simple pleasure of a reclining chair, a glass of lemonade and a paperback. We rediscovered books and thus enriched our lives with knowledge that we couldn’t have obtained otherwise. We expanded our vocabulary and started using words like ‘surreptitiously’ in our day to day conversations. More importantly, HP taught us to dream, it taught us imagination, and the dizzying heights that it can reach. If only we try.
The year was 1997. Technology had abducted the very soul of the human race. Children in this age grew up afflicted with screen-mania; be it that of the T.V, the cell phone, the videogame or the computer. Reading was considered to be an obsolete, arcane form of recreation, and was thus restricted to schoolwork. Unfortunately, we, today’s media aspirants, were a part of the same generation, the same mania. ENTER HARRY POTTER.
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, the story of an 11 year old boy who suddenly discovers that he is a famous wizard, took the world by storm. It was an instant rage, capturing the hearts of children and adults alike, catapulting itself into the bestsellers list. But above all, Harry Potter did what most books then could not - it reintroduced children to the joys of reading.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was only the second installment in the series, which had already received a cult-like status. Thousands of fans all over the world devoured the ‘Secrets’ that the chamber had to offer and yet another record was broken. If Philosophers Stone was a success, Chamber of Secrets was a phenomenon. Harry Potter had finally arrived. The subsequent titles in this series only served to establish J.K.Rowling as the Queen of Modern Fantasia, with the number of her subjects rising with each day.
I'm sure you must all be wondering why I've chosen such a seemingly outdated topic for my article. Hasn't Harry Potter been hyped enough? Yes, it has. Perhaps more than it deserved. But somehow when it came to writing about things that truly mattered to me, my books always took precedence. And HP was too huge to be ignored. And why not? Harry Potter has entertainment galore. It is a series that is absolutely bewitching and spell-binding (puns intended), a roller-coaster ride that will leave you yearning for more. Poignant, funny, yet exciting, it's like Bollywood masala movies with a little bit of everything thrown in, albeit under the masterful direction of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. So while Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K.Rowling's 6th offering has been released worldwide, my article will only serve to remind the readers of how much we all still need a little bit of magic in our lives.
Harry Potter re-evoked the dying passion for books and reading amongst youngsters like us. Our minds, hijacked by computers, had forgotten the simple pleasure of a reclining chair, a glass of lemonade and a paperback. We rediscovered books and thus enriched our lives with knowledge that we couldn’t have obtained otherwise. We expanded our vocabulary and started using words like ‘surreptitiously’ in our day to day conversations. More importantly, HP taught us to dream, it taught us imagination, and the dizzying heights that it can reach. If only we try.
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