July: The Month of Harry Potter

As the month of July goes on, the hype for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows increases. The madness is clearly shown as people in Alaska are already in line for the last installment. They already have their copy reserved, but they are willing to wait 4 more days until it comes out. Now, I am a huge fan of the series, but I’m not going to wait that long for a book that I’ve already reserved. That’s just silly.

For me, I’m happy that I’ll be able to spend time with my sister when we go to Borders to pick up our copies. I will finally get to experience a real Harry Potter party. I don’t get to stay in a line a Wal*Mart and just sit there and wait. I’ll actually be able to do stuff while waiting. My sister has said that Borders will hold a trivia contest, make your own wand, eat chocolate frogs, and much more. And I will be one of those fools that will dress up for it.

Earlier this month, the movie Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix came out. I wasn’t able to see it on the 11th, but I still was able to see it. A couple of my friends and I did go on the 13th because it was reading day for finals. Only one of my friends had the guts to dress up with me. (It’s the same outfit I’ll where when I get my copy of HPDH.) They were suppose to hold another costume contest, but we never got our pictures taken. Which was frustrating because my friend made her hair into an afro like Professor Trelawney. It was hilarious.

I did like the movie. It’s my favorite of the movie series so far. I understand why they deleted things and kept certain things, like Kreacher for instance. J. K. Rowling actually told the script writers and director to keep Kreacher in. She basically said that he would be important in the sixth and seventh movies, and wouldn’t tell how he was important. I thought that was interesting. In my family there’s this debate that he is somehow involved with knowing the location of the locket horcrux. In the book Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, a locket is mentioned briefly in 12th Grimmauld Place. My sister and I are both like, ‘Use your brain, Harry! It’s there!’ But who knows? Only J. K. Rowling knows, and we’ll soon know in 4 more days.