Monday, July 16, 2007

The Last of Harry

Chloe and Sydney Bostian , the two sisters are engaged in a unique mission- precisely a 11 day mission to acquire something the world has gone berserk.Its a saga of of a teenager boy.The sisters have installed a tent outside the bookstore and visited by their parents often and their friends supply their food.If u have not guessed it by now then u are perhaps one of those unfortunate Muggles who are oblivious of an alternate world- a world infested by wizards, witches, animagus and a dark villain.Confused!! Read on




The Boy who lived

What can one say about a 18 year old boy who shall die? Well, this is not a corrupted version of Love Story by Eric Segal but a tale of Harry Potter the boy-wonder who has interwoven into our live and became a part of our living for over a decade.Originally started as a bed-time story, conceived at a cafe by J.k Rowling ,a widow then, Harry has grown of age over years so is his popularity by leaps and bounds.No other fictional character till date have received fame and affection of masses to this magnitude as Harry has enjoyed.No one has captured our imagination,our heart and soul the way this teenager boy has.
In a world divided over race , cast and language; where a deep chasm exists between the have and have-nots, the world that J K Rowling has spun for us resides in our fantasies.This is world where two kind of people exists Wizards and Witches- those who are in possession of Magical powers and the Muggles- their hapless counterparts sans any powers and knowledge of the existance of the former beings.Unlike LOTR where the wizards are shown to have flowing beard, towering figure and are invariably very old, wizard and witches in Harry's world love watching sports ( namely Quiddich ), they too fall in love, bunk classes,get those adolescent pangs and have fights over trifle issues- well in short like us only!!This is where J K Rowling scores over others.She has built an alternate realm which we can identify easily.Wizard here go to school for honing their magic skills, they too have to submit homework regularly and they too have biased cronies as teachers.The subject they study is strikingly similar to that we do in our Muggle classrooms. Transfiguration is synonymous with physics which is all about manipulating the nature of the matter,potion classes is similar to our chemistry and herbology is invariably same as our biology lessons.They too have the boring history lessons ( guess what they are taught by ghosts!!) and more often than not the pupil doze off during classes.
Basically what Rowling has successfully done is to empower us i.e she has led us to believe that this world really exists somewhere and we can simulate ourselves in the place of Harry or his friends like Ron and Hermione,Sirius Black, Albus Dumbledor and even the Lord Voldemort.It may be Harius Potter to a boy in Scotland or Hari da Putter in our very own Punjab.
Harry Potter is after all about victory of good over the evil.All her books carries the the same refrain that its us who chooses who we become.However how bad be the adversary we always have hope.Its us who shall make choices and choices make us who we are.
At the stroke of midnight when the clock will strike 12the half of the world shall remain awake for the last of the franchise of Harry Potter series.So many question remains to be answered.Will Harry Die? What is exactly deathly Hallows?Will Voldemort be defeated at last?One last shot .We wait with our bated breadth to see the end of the greatest epic of our time.

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3 comments:

Shayon said...

Wah! Wah! U dedicate an entire post to apna Hari da Puttar, eh? Well, I guess he does deserve tht much. Of course, I can never compare Harry Potter with LOTR> I remember reading a book "The Belgariad" even that one was so much better than Harry Potter series. Bt then again, I guess the what made all the difference was marketing. All they did with LOTR was just a movie. And look at the "Puttar"! So much glam has been addedd to the character. Neways, temme....r u planning to buy the book this time? ;-)

Karma said...

you know what...Harry Potter is not about marketing..surely the market sales speaks volumes for the amount of money they put in pushing the brand but to sustain it over a decde..well that needs an acumen besides marketing tactics!!!U know who is the greatest wizard in HP not Voldemort not Dubledore and certainly not Harry its its creator J K Rowling itself....
about buying the book..i shall certainly plan one when I get the caution money in my hand!!;)

Sakshi said...

I am very excited about the new potter as well...GONNA READ it asap... my neigbour has already bought the copy and ruined the suspense..... may I ruin it for you as well?? N no my dear its not what you (shayon) had told me. The net version was wrong....!!! I so feel like ruining it all for you...!!! But lemme be a good sport and be supportive...!!!