The Boy Who Lived

             Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, a rousing & breathtaking finale to the magical mystery tour of a scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy with a lightning-shaped scar.

It has been 10 years since the boy first charmed his way into the hearts of millions and wove a parallel world for the young and the not so young.

The books too have grown like any other human.

The series bears on the heart of all Fantasy books – a fusion of both fairy tale and reality.

It reminds us that legends were not just something that people thought of for a good story, but was an attempt to explain certain aspects of the world – and in this case, wizards and witches are no different than us ‘muggles’ in their desire for an explanation

A world as fascinating as it is real -- of wizardly magic and human folly.

The epic series has allowed its “characters” to be human and to be mortal.

There were characters that have been painfully ended – characters none of the avid readers would ever want to see die.

Loss & death is experienced by all & it’s also no less tragic when it happens in literature, especially to characters we have come to know and love.

“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death”— Yes, there lies a power beyond reach of any magic, a power in every soul, a power without which any knowledge we own remains woefully incomplete, it’s the power of “love”.

“We are who we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” 

Coming down to the most beautiful character of this series. The ‘character’ that teaches us to be non-judgmental. It brings to us our falters as human beings, that is, how we assume & how we believe in all what is shown to us, by our eyes. 

Severus Snape has pretended for a long time, he did what he could with a greater goal in mind & departed nothing less than the strongest & the bravest.

The man who survived all the evil & stood by Harry to find him his way to redemption – Some bonds can never be broken.The bond between Severus Snape & Harry Potter, ties the two of them so strong that each becomes the Patronus for the other.

Ron: “He must have known I’d run out on you”.

Harry: “No. He must have known you would always want to come back.”

For me, Harry Potter is not just a story about, a boy who lived or about a boy in exile who is the last hope of wizard kind; it is nothing more or less,but an aping of a global hysteria!

It stays with us all long even after the last stones unturned.

By that symbol, this majestic journey will be known to live for a long time and lure generations of children to grow up with ''the boy wizard''.

These books will always find a way to endure.

The end of the films, is not the end of me reading the books.

The real charm spread across in each of Rowling's books, will last eternally in the subliminal messages -- that love is magic; that power corrupts; that intolerance is evil.

And if you have traveled with Harry through the years, you will feel the emptiness that inevitably follows the end of a great journey.

Nevertheless, “The process is what matters, than the product. It is not our abilities that define each of us. But, it is our choices.”

You can never finish such a great read.

The lightning scar at last, has imprinted deep within my psyche. :)

The author, who bought it to me, might as well be always remembered-- for she taught me indeed - the language of ''the Greater Good".

And as I finally turn the last few pages of the Deathly Hallows once again, each time there unleashes a beautiful journey.

Indeed! A spectacular series that borrows imagery and concepts not just from literature but also from life -- it leans equally on the fantasies and the realities of totalitarianism, which is suggestive that the author is remarkably a grand plotter and the queen of chronicles!

The words inscribed by J. K Rowling have embedded themselves so effortlessly across millions hearts, which truly defines the ability of this outstanding writer to spread “magic”.

  

“Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure’’. Proved alas!

PS: "Is this real ? Or has this been happening inside my head?" 

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real."