Don't judge me because I love the HARRY POTTER BOOKS

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows 2

(The Deathly Battle between Good and Evil)

  

I reading now but that wasn’t the case a few years ago.  I used to hate reading when I was in high school.  My grade used to always drop from an A to a C the second semester because I could never read the books.  I would start reading but the next thing you know my mind was wondering somewhere else.  All of a sudden I would realize I had no idea what I had just read… so then I would have to go back and re-read what I had just read.

It wasn’t until a friend (Yesi) let me borrow a book called SOMETHING BORRWED, that I started to enjoy reading.  After finishing SOMETHING BORROWED in 2 days I wanted more, I wanted to read more, I wanted to know more.  So I started asking around for good books and many people suggested the Harry Potter books.  By this time 6 of the books has already been released.  At first I refused, I didn’t want to be part of the Harry Potter craziness.  But one day while I was shopping at Target I came across the 1^st Harry Potter book.  It was on sale for $7, so I bought it.  And that’s how my love for the Harry Potter books began.  Little by little I started to get consumed by this brilliant story.



That's me wearing the sorting hat. SLYTHERIN



One very IMPORTANT thing I need to share is that during the time I was reading the Harry Potter books I was going through a really painful time in my life.  My heart, body and soul were lost in pain.  The Harry Potter books helped me get distracted and helped me scape the constant pain I was living in.  Because of how sick I was, I had a lot of free time… so I used that time to read and enter the world of Harry Potter.

 

I purchased the last Harry Potter book in Italy, Orvieto

So I ended up reading all 7 books in about 3 months.  The 6^th book I read while I was traveling in Europe and the 7^th book I bought in Italy.  It’s always been very hard for me to pick a favorite but if I really must I guess I’ll pick the 7^th book, the Deathly Hollows.



On the wall of Whimsic Alley in Los Angeles



A while back an old friend and I at a Halloween party approached a guy wearing an authentic Draco Malfoy costume…  we asked him where he got his costume.  That’s how we discovered there was a Harry Potter store called WHIMSIC ALLEY in LA.  That is where I bought most of my costume and my wand.

 

Wearing the SORTING HAT

As you get to know me you’ll learn that for the most part I don’t like to follow the crowd.  I don’t cheer for a certain team because everyone else does; I don’t pick a certain thing because everyone else does.  As a matter of fact, I like to do the opposite.  In the Harry Potter books the popular house is Gryffindor which is why you’ll see the majority of Potter Heads wearing gold and burgundy.  I chose to like SLYTHERIN (the evil guys) because I knew nobody else would.  My favorite SLYTHERINS are : Voldemort and Snape.  SLYTHERIN colors are: green and silver.

 

At the Harry Potter Deathly Hollows Part 1 premier

I’m not a big fan of the films; most of them have not followed the books in my opinion.  I have them all because they’ve been gifts.  My least favorite has been Harry Potter and Half Blood Prince.  It was like if the director had never read the book, he changed almost everything, didn’t include important scenes and added some stuff that was never in the book.  My favorite movie is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 2.  Even though they changed a few things, it was still great.  I don’t want the movies too much but I definitely read the books over and over.

Thank you J.K. Rowling for the Harry Potter books.  I will always remember them with love because they played a part in my healing.