Oh. Oh. Oh. Its Magic!

What is magic for you?

What enchants me or is magical for me is found in love, in melodies, in writing, in poems, in moments, in alliances and most definitely in books. Fantasy is the imagination which knows no bounds. It comes from a place which reflects your inner most desires, manifested in the most beautiful and highly creative forms. There is so much more to just thinking about what your life is and how it will pan out and than writing it down as it is. That’s just good expression.

The thing that impresses me most about fantasy is the fact that you really have to think outside the box rather get out of the box, throw it away and embrace the universe for all its secrets. You are literally creating people, places, things, etc. which do not exist, yet. Agreed, a lot of it is inspired or may even be an interpretation of someone else’s thoughts but still. A lot of people including me are adept in writing or rather conveying what we feel and that really is just what transpires on to paper. It is truly an art to breathe life into a world you create on paper.

I’ve particularly been fond of the fantasy genre. There is something magical about it (pun intended). There are a lot of books that I can quote here for instance, Eoin Cofner – The Artemis Fowl series, C.S.Lewis – Narnia series, Jonathan Stroud – Bartemis Trilogy and of course the classics and one of my favourites The Wizard of Oz but today let's focus Harry Potter. Ever since Harry Potter came out people have been going crazy (me included). I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the new book, even though it is a bit of a letdown but hey since I’ve been crazy about the book since forever so how could I just let this one go.

You connect with Harry Potter or at least one of its characters at some point or the other. That's what makes it real. I remember watching Deathly Hallows - Part 1 in US and the experience of it I carry with me always. People came dressed up as wizards, carrying wands whereas I was carrying cheesecake (which I had to share with the entire row btw, enough said for sneaking it in). There was this girl who walked in dressed as Hagrid and everyone of us started calling out to her and she performed the role of Hagrid brilliantly. 

I've always been emotional when it came to the Harry, the way the book is written masters your emotional connect with it so well that you feel the book. Coincidentally, the movie casting was done brilliantly so much so that whenever I read the book later, I visualized the actors. I think one of the best things post Harry Potter series is coming out with Pottermore. The site is relatively new but it like your own little magical world inside your computer. For obvious reasons (age is not the criteria) I joined it and voila I got into Gryffindor and we know that it's not to be taken lightly. 

Check out my patronas as well. Still exploring the website hence another blog shall follow. Cannot wait for Fantastic Beasts to be released. So, more on that later. 

And I'll leave you with some good and some of the best quotes by my favourite character - Albus Dumbledore.

• “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” –The Sorcerer’s Stone
• “The truth.” Dumbledore sighed. “It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.” –The Sorcerer’s Stone
• “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” –The Chamber of Secrets
• “The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.” –The Prisoner of Azkaban
• "Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if only one remembers to turn on the light." –The Prisoner of Azkaban
• “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.” –The Goblet of Fire
• “If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals” – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• “Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.” – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• “Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.” – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” –The Goblet of Fire
• “We cannot choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.” –The Order of the Phoenix
• “We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.” – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• “It is important,” Dumbledore said, “to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated.” –The Half-Blood Prince
• “Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both influencing injury, and remedying it.” –The Deathly Hallows