A Harrrry Perspective.

Creativity vs. Convenience

     I first encountered Harry Potter when I was in junior high school. First I had a classmate named Julia Garies and all she did was read Harry Potter books, so one day I just asked her what was the big deal about this Harry Potter and she flat out just told me that she felt reading these books opened her creative side beyond her average thinking. So I told her I wanted to read one and the next day she came to school with a copy of Harry Potter and the “Chamber of Secrets” which later turned out to be my favorite Harry Potter book. I read it and was immediately intrigued by the plot and the fictional characters and “magic” based theme. So I then read “Sorcerer’s Stone” which lead to me re reading “Chamber of Secrets” and later “Prisoner of Azkaban” which unfortunately was where my Harry Potter series was concluded for me.

            I prefer the books over the movies, simply because I feel you’re allowed to be more creative when reading something than actually viewing it. With the books I got to create my own image based off context and my personal feelings of how I felt the story was being portrayed whereas in the movies it more of a what you see is what you get and that’s all you really have to go off of, just eliminates the creativity and the suspense of trying to figure out what is what and who looks like what just based upon what you have read so far.

            My favorite Harry Potter scene would probably be of course from “Chamber of Secrets” when all the children were in the common hall to eat and it was announce that all their exams had been cancelled and everyone was joyous except Harmonia that was just funny to me because it fit her character, to be the only one unhappy about such a thing and then Harry and Hagrid had their little bonding moment in this scene also and the kids just applauded and cheered for them.