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[somedaybitch]

right now, literally all over the world, people are sharing a story.

right.this.minute.

they're sharing a story about faith, about love, about hope and fear, about standing up for what you believe, about tolerance and understanding, about courage and duty, honor and committment, about stepping forward to do what you know is right even when that might get you killed, about liberty and freedom, equality and rights, about the razor thin line between crushing intrusion and protecting the public, about friendship and family, about loss and recovery, pain and forgiveness.

all over the world this story is being shared right this very moment in space and time.

crossing culture, crossing language, crossing politics and religion; witness the power of storytelling, the power of imagination, the power of hope.

litcrit The Books all you want, and be justified in doing so, but stand back and recognize the utterly amazing thing that Jo Rowling has done - she's united humanity, for just a little while, around the Boy Who Lived.


edit: cut to allow the skippage.

and bloody hell, i've just made myself cry.

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[bexxa.livejournal.com]

It's a beautiful thing. :)

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

isn't it just? it's like, for once, the global "you remember where you were when..." is something positive, and that doesn't happen near enough. when it does it's like, well, it's like magic, isn't it.

[bexxa.livejournal.com]

Gods, yes!

People don't talk about the first Moon-walk like that.

Or about the fall of the Berlin Wall. (Well, they might in Europe, but HP is global.)

I suspect that the Internet had/has a lot to do with the magnitude of the HP phenomenon - how fast the word can spread, and how far, and how every bit of feedback boosts the signal.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

yeah, i agree re the internets. it's the immediacy of dialogue that's allowed.

[musicforcylons.livejournal.com]

I like that idea. :)

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

thanks. :D

[azulada.livejournal.com]

love you like, whoa.
bloody hell. you made me cry as well ::sniff::

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

sorry 'bout that./hagrid

:::gives you tissues:::

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the same thing, in the way that I could call the bookstore and say "do you have one?" and they'd know exactly which one I meant, or I can say to my mother, "have you read it?" and there's no doubt to what I'm referring.

Today, we muggles are living in the wizarding world, all of us, together. A mass exodus into fantasy and fiction.

So well said, T. It makes me cry too.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

thanks, E. :::fetches a bigger tissue box:::

[wishkey.livejournal.com]

And this is exactly why I just adore you.

Thanks for sharing the lovely thoughts.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

:::beams:::

[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

so, you're saying I should read it then? :devil: aw come on, didja really expect me to say something else? ;)

I think it unites because there is a little something for everyone there...
hope for those of us whose families have been blown apart by whatever circumstance.
for those of us who took a long time to feel comfortable in our own skin, too.

*two arms to wrap 'round you*

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Very good point.

[pualaridesagain.livejournal.com]

Jo tapped in to a little part of the universal story that surrounds us all, and let us peek at it. Amazing ain't it?

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

for srsly.