Has anyone seen the new Harry Potter trailer? Can you say EPIC? I cannot wait until November! As soon as I saw the trailer I immediately wanted to read the Deathly Hallows again...for the fifth time. I'm bracing myself though and waiting until October to read it again, that way I am 100% ready for the movie. Oh and in case you were wondering, I will be attending the midnight showing. I'd be a fool not too!
After typing all this I realize how much of a geek I must sound but I can't deny who I am. It also makes me realize I need to buy a whole new set of the Harry Potter series.
I'll take you back to a time, let's say six years ago. I woke up on Christmas morning on the crisp age of fifteen or fourteen, i.e I have a horrible memory. But anyway I walked into the living room and saw the first three Harry Potter books under the Christmas Tree and I was so excited! Needless to say after six years of those books and in addition in later years of the others they have received the HeatherK. badge of getting the living snot beat out of them.
I looked at them on my bookshelf and they are torn up. No really, my brother's beagle got ahold of the seventh one and there is a huge chunk of the front cover missing. The other books binding are torn, so many dog eared pages, and etc. It is time for a new, pristine set.
I once heard a quote, it went something like this. 'Show me a man's library where the books are all in pristine condition, no torn or dog eared pages and I will tell you the man has not absorbed the books into him, he has not fully read them. But show me a man's library where the books are torn, the binding wearing and the pages dog eared and there is a man who truly reads.'
That is me. I read my books so much they look awful, but it gives them character. I absorb them into my mind and take them in completely. So I will buy a new set of HP novels but I'll keep the old ones because they show something, something special.
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Some of my books look like that (GONE WITH THE WIND, for one), but I've taken very, very good care of my HP books. They are way too expensive to get messed up! That, and I don't let anyone but my grandma borrow my books. I've had way too many people damage/never return things to me. :(
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