Alighting The Hogwarts Express
NOTE: I have written this essay around 2007/2008, sometime after the last Harry Potter book was published. I first posted this in my Facebook notes. After reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , I knew that after 10 years, it was time to say goodbye even though I'd still go back in years to come. This was my way of saying thank you to the wonderful years I had spent reading, travelling, laughing, crying with the characters. I edited this a bit for whatever mistakes - grammar, spelling, punctuation - I may have made or to update it a little. The book series recently celebrated 15 years since its first publication in the United States with a set of new covers by Kazu Kibuishi, replacing those of Mary GrandPre' s. This doesn't include the movies. It is also fitting that I will bring this up here in my Blogger account on the first day of the new year because of how the books became a part of my life. Ten years have passed since the books were published yet ...