Harry Potter Challenge Blog #8

Well this chapter in my life is coming to a close. I have finished all of the Harry Potter novels, did the trivia, and am finishing up my writing. I have yet to watch the last movie though so that too is on my list. I want everything to be done and presented by next week. This is really exciting! I worked really hard and my brain almost exploded because Harry Potter was running through it all the time. Watching the last movie I cried. I remember crying when Dobby died in the novel, watching it was even worst. Ahh, brings tears to my eyes right now. I do regret watching the movies before reading the books, that's one thing I will be explaining deeply in my essay. Books should always be read before presented in the cinemas, there's just so much you'll miss, and I really do understand that now. The trivia was very exciting, everyone seemed to have a fun time. I got compliments after the game, and many people who could not attend, teachers and students, came up to me showing how deeply they regretted having to miss the session. Maybe I can hold another trivia? It was a great time and I'm sure people will come again, maybe even more!

Harry Potter Challenge Blog #7

I finally finished the 5th book. I'm actually really depressed, Sirius died and that was really the only family Harry had left. His life is such a tragedy, he's so young and everything that is surrounding him just seems to die, or always end up hurt. There was a revelation though in the last chapter that Neville and Harry were in the running for being the chosen victim of Lord Voldemort. That may sound weird but there was a prophecy that a child born in late July and to parents who have wronged Voldemort three times, which seems really biblical to me, will be the one to either kill Voldemort, or get killed themselves. So Voldemort, this crazy insane leader of wanting to rid the world of half-bloods and non magical people, went after Harry instead of Neville. I find Voldemort  to be extremely similar to Hitler. Seeing as Hitler was preaching about cleansing the world and turning it into an aryan race when he was far from aryan himself, and Voldemort basically doing the same thing as hitler because he's contradicting his own beliefs seeing as he's a half-blood too. Quite a huge contradiction, mindless and insane people following a leader who can't even stay true to the very thing he is fighting for. Well back to Neville and Harry. Neville is pure-blood, Harry is half-blood. Voldemort, being one of the most powerful wizards on earth went after Harry. Why do you ask? Because Voldemort, understanding his own roots, saw himself in Harry. He could have gone after Neville and Harry would have not been the chosen one, he would be living a normal wizarding life with his parents still alive, but Voldemort did not want to underestimate the very thing that was perceived as weak in the first place. It's sad how much blood, dna, the very thing that make you, you, the thing that you have no control over, can bring so much hate and suffrage to those just because they make you different.  And that is why Harry was made the chosen one on that late night at the end of July in the year 1980. Harry Potter's life changed because he was different, because he was not pure, and because he would never be perfect for society, he was destined to suffer.

Harry Potter Challenge Blog #7

I've been working on this project for almost a month now. I've been asked if I regretted starting my senior project. I still say no. Yes, I have had some setbacks. School can really be a drag, and getting sick can be even worst, but I'm still really pumped about reading this series. There is so much to learn from a writer, and I am picking up subtle things from J.K. herself. One thing that I have noticed is that she is really literal, in a way it is endearing, in another, really hurtful. I'm not sure any of you have noticed, but Dobby and all the other house elves remind me of slaves.
Well it is a no brainer that they are, but the way they talk, their dialect is very Afro-centered. Reading The Help, and just growing up in the African American culture really makes it easier for me to pick up on these things. It's broken english, that was what Rowling was going for, and its the same exact english my ancestors spoke while working in the cotton fields long ago. I was a little shocked when I picked up on it. Actually I was very shocked, and it made me angry because all the house elves are genetically programed to like cleaning up and being told what to do by their "masters" and "mistresses".
The other thing that through me off is how Dobby, the free elf, was basically called a genetic freak because he did not want to clean up after his "family" anymore, he did not want to take orders anymore, he just wanted to be free. The lack of want for independence is scary, and it's nice that Hermione and Dumbledore are fighting for their freedom, and their rights. But what good is any of that going to do if J.K. turned all the house elves into programed slaves? Ugh, it's just frustrating, that is all.