HOW IS THIS REAL LIFE. I WAS JUST NOTICED BY MY FAVOURITE AUTHOR IN THE WHOLE WORLD.

okay so im going to get real sentimental right now but i need to say it so if you wanna mute me for some time then do it lol

ok so basically my first experience with the hp books was when i was maybe 5 years old. my dad bought philosopher's stone and read it to me. i immediately fell in love with the magic and the characters.

then chamber of secrets came out and again, he read it to me. i cant fully describe the connection my dad and i had over the books because i was so young but i knew how special it was in my heart.

prisoner of azkaban came out and that was the first hp book i read all by myself. it quickly became (and still is) my favourite.

oh also forgot to mention but for every single book release (save for the first one) my dad and i would get the book right at midnight. when POA and the other books came out i would start reading in the car even though i could barely see the words on the page.

like with the book releases, the movie releases were also celebrated. if it was a school day, my dad would literally come to my school, SIGN ME OUT, and TAKE ME TO THE MOVIES. that's how much we loved harry potter.

we would literally always talk about the books/movies and when my brother was old enough he would come along for the movie viewings as well.

when my dad passed away in 2009 life for me basically ended for a time. my depression was so bad and many times i thought about ending it all.. i could barely read the hp books because every time i picked one up i thought of my dad.

i eventually mustered up the strength to read the books again, much later. it made me smile to see the pages where he had dog-eared and read the parts that we had talked about incessantly.

when half blood prince came out i felt so empty seeing it without him... we would do this thing when we'd go to a movie we really wanted to see where we would do a countdown from 10 when we knew it was time and every hp film i saw after he passed had me doing the countdown alone.

the only solace i got was knowing that he had at least read the books so the story was complete for him. it still hurt though. after a hp movie we'd go to a restaurant just to discuss it and i missed talking over everything after he passed.

thinking back on everything now, i realize just how much he must have enjoyed our time together over this very special book. it's crazy how much of a connection we had and still have over literally a book.

anyways, i rambled long enough but i just want to say that the harry potter books are not just pieces of albeit excellent literature, but a never-ending connection that i have with my dad and for that im forever grateful to @jk_rowling