And To You, If You Have Stuck With Harry Until The Very End...

Now, let me just preface this post by explaining that I am not a Harry Potter fangirl. I do not troll Deviant Art for drawings of "young Snape" or reenact duels at midnight premiers (oh yeah, that happened. And they believed in it 100%. I mean, they were dressed up and casting spells). I am, however. Obsessed.

I have been a Harry Potter fan since I was in first grade. It's a series I grew up loving. The characters grew up with me. I've read and re-read every single book, watched and re-watched every single movie. I cried when I finished the seventh book. For that matter, I cried when I finished every book, because I didn't want to have to leave that world. And I will admit to the blogosphere that I cried when I did not recieve an acceptance letter to Hogwarts on my eleventh birthday.

I honestly feel like there was a period in my life when the world of the Harry Potter books was my alternate reality. Late elementary school and middle school, for me, were horrible. I was constantly bullied, my self esteem plummeted, and I spent more time crying than anything else. I never believed in the books (eleventh birthday aside), in that I thought they were real or I was delusional about the difference between reality and fiction, but they were, and are, an escape. An escape to a world where the farthest reaches of your imagination are true. A world where people with the straightest of moral compasses fight for what they know is right. A world where Ron Weasley exists, because lets be honest, he may be the hottest fictional character ever.

And yes, I love Ron Weasley. I love him so much. I love him, I love Rupert Grint (the actor who plays him)...there's something about an awkward ginger wizard that I just can't resist. I loved him when I was 6. I loved him when I was 8. I loved him when I was 12. I love him now. I will love him when I am old and gray. I definitely own a shirt that says "I'd Get Sleazy for Weasley" on it. Not gonna lie.

♪ AND I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU.... ♪

So yeah, Twilight has lots of abs and teen angst. But a 4-book series about a girl's struggle between bestiality and necrophilia just doesn't have the same appeal, I'm sorry. Not that I didn't read Twilight in middle school/freshman year and enjoy it, because I did. And not that I don't think that Taylor Lautner has the best body of all time, because he does. And not that I am not going to the movie theatre soon to catch Eclipse, because I will. But do not even try comparing the two, because Harry Potter will always win. He will always live. Because he has something to live for. (Deathly Hallows trailer reference? Yeah I did. Seriously, so excited. Watched the trailer and shat my pants. Figuratively.)

love,
me.

P.S. Ron and Hermione > Edward and Bella. Juuuust saying.

P.P.S. Me and Rupert Grint > Every other couple in the universe.