So in a week I will be turning 21 :D SO I have been reading for pleasure up until now in order to treat myself!! I have already had some celebrations but my most favourite and exciting one is on my actual birthday my mum is taking me to Harry Potter World in Watford!! I AM SO EXCITED!!! So in the run up to this I decided that I would revisit some of my favourite ever books and re read Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. I will be reading new books and I am hoping to get some nice new ones for my birthday :) I am currently 31 books into my dissertation research! So once I have managed to get through some more and have a plan written I will still be reading so much about Richard I but in doing this I have found that I can read more and I make myself :)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J.K.Rowling
Now Harry Potter books are some of my favourite books of all time but I haven't read them in what feels like forever soooo I decided in the run up to my birthday treat of Harry Potter World, that I would re read them!! I have to start from the beginning! I am one of those people, I cant just dip into the books in any random order!!!
I can remember the first time I got this book, when it was brand new and there were no films no nothing!! And it was amazing!! I was a little bit young to read this book on my own as it came out in 1997 so I was only 4years old!!! SO my mum used to read the book to me on a night before I went to bed. I used to be horrible at going to bed but when she suggested reading this I loved it!! My mum used to read to me in a monotone voice in the hope that she would put me to sleep so she could also go to bed .... but instead she used to get me telling her to 'put some expression into it' which I still tell her now :) I remember these books being magical to me when my mum first started reading them to me and over the last 17years they have not lost their magic no matter how many times I re read them!!!
Now I am assuming that everyone has either read Harry Potter or has at least watched a film!! SO I'm not going to go into the story etc.... But I would like to think about why these books capture a child's imagination and run with it. How magical it must have seemed at the age of 4 to be reading about a young boy ... a normal boy ... who goes off to become a Wizard! I have to admit for years I did hope that I would get a letter through the door so that I could go and learn to be a witch. I think it is the fact that Harry is normal up until he is 11 and then suddenly is plunged into a whole new world that means that children love it! There is a prospect of hope which makes that child think at 11 will I get that letter? Needless to say I am still waiting!!!! I love that the first book is so easy to read! With just over 200 pages it only took me 3 hours to get through the book with a dinner break in between!! So it was lovely to revisit this book :)
I think that next I am going to read 'The Gallows Curse - Kate Maitland' when I do get a chance to enjoy some reading!!!!
Again thanks for reading!!
See you soon :)
Leanne x
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