PLEASE NO SPOILERS TO THE MOVIE!

Posted this on tumblr, thought I might as well post it here.

Yes, it’s the end of Harry Potter, yes it’s the end of an era, but by no means is it the end of the world. Many people of today’s generation and especially those around my age (21) grew up with the Harry Potter franchise, first the books and then the movies. It holds a huge nostalgic and sentimental value to me. I can remember reading these books, waiting anxiously for them to be released every summer, wondering what adventures they were going to go on next. What new spell they were going to learn. What new mythical creature they were going to come up against. JK Rowling is a (creative and literary) genius and she knows how to speak to kids with these extraordinary adventures and at the same time, adults with analogs to political and religious things. I’m a firm believer that the Harry Potter books are well and truly one of a kind and that there is something in there for everybody to love and associate with.

Watching the movies, you see these actors grow up and you grow up with them. You see not only the characters progress and grow, but the actors themselves. It’s a natural feeling to feel that you’re losing something with the end of the Harry Potter movies; I know that I do. But it’s not the end of the world. You’re not going to die. Everything isn’t suddenly going to come to a halt. You’re forever going to have the movies and the books to look back on and read again with nostalgic and sentimental value. People are making a bigger deal of this than they need to be.

So take this for what it is. The end of something magnificent, something ground-breaking, something monumental, something magical. As they say, all good things must come to an end. But don’t make it more than it needs to be. Harry Potter will always be here, always be accessible. And on top of that JK has said that she could easily write more books should the notion ever strike her. I wouldn’t be counting Harry and his cohorts out of the mix just yet.