Write a narrative passage about the movies or books that changed your worldview.
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Harry Potter
To most people, Harry Potter is just a series for kids, about a boy that does magic and defeats evil. But for me, and I know for many others, it is so much more than that. I grew up alone, without any friends or siblings, with physically and emotionally abusive parents. I was around 6 when I had the first thought of what it would be like if I didn’t exist, although it wasn’t an entirely ‘suicidal’ thought.
That’s when my teacher introduced me to Harry Potter. I was hooked from that moment on. The story of a young boy growing up with an abusive family, oh how much I could relate to that. I knew exactly what Harry was feeling. For the first time in my life I felt like someone understood what I was going through as well. Then came Ron and Hermione, Harry’s first friends, and mine too. I found friendship through those books, and love too. I fell in love with Hermione, with Remus Lupin, Lily Potter, Hagrid. With Professor McGonagall, with Tonks, and with Molly Weasley. I was heartbroken when Cedric died, when Fred died. I cried all night when Sirius Black died. They were my first friends in life, and I grew up with the Golden Trio by my side. I’m in uni now, and since the age of 6, I’ve been re-reading the books again and again, because I’m sure that without them I wouldn’t have made it, with the kind of family I had. I can’t even tell you how proud I was of myself when I got Gryffindor on Pottermore. Not because it’s the house everyone dreams of, because it helped me survive. I was suicidal in my teen years. There were times when I filled the bathtub and sat in there, trying to drown myself. The one and only thing that stopped me was: Gryffindor, Hogwarts, and all the characters. Not my family, not my friends, because they were never there for me. But Harry, Hermione, Ron, Luna, Fred and George, they always were. So as I lay in the bathtub with my head under water, the only thoughts that came to my mind were how I had to be brave. I imagined Lily Potter whispering to me to be brave. I imagined Molly Weasley being there for me when I got out, shivering and sobbing. And finally, I imagined the 12 years of Remus Lupin and Sirius Black’s lives. They were all alone for 12 years, right? But they made it. And so will I. Because I’m in Gryffindor.
So when people tell me to get over Harry Potter, or that it’s for little kids, I just smile and feel sorry because wow, they’re missing out on such a beautiful story.