xBrokenmindedx

I remember, I was 9 when I first read Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone. It immediately became my favorite book as I delved into a world of magical mayhem. This was the first book I had ever read, and got all the way through… so not only was (am) I thankful for JK Rowling to create an amazing world of magic, I’m thankful to her for getting me interest in reading. I can’t last a month without reading at least 2 books now, and I’m 17 (do the math’s, that’s a lot of books! )
            I was one of those children, who sat up until the late hours… staring longingly into the starry night sky, in the wee hope an owl would bring me a letter inviting me to Hogwarts. I was gutted it never arrived, and so I escaped into my own world of Harry Potter… building it up around me, I made lots of friends and brought cloaks… we’d spend hours role-playing in the garden and hiding the brooms from our mothers so we didn’t get told off for writing, “Nimbus 2000” all over them.  We were so cool! Well, in our eyes that is. The Harry Potter generation, that’s what I was a part of! And now the books have ended, I’m not embarrassed to say I’m still living in this generation. Like your grandparents, dressing in 60’s clothing. I love it, and I don’t care what people think! Trust me; people think a lot of things. Mostly good, I’ve made A LOT of friends through running websites for fellow HP fans such as myself. When I moved away from all my fellow Harry Potter friends when I lived in Wales, it was like the whole world crashed around me and I got a harsh stab of reality. People in my new school where different, the kids laughed at my Welsh accent and laughed at by the fact I had a pencil case with the Hogwarts crest on it. I remember spending countless nights crying to myself, wishing my broom would work again and I could fly back to all my friends. It wouldn’t work…. And the magic vanished.
            Mum decided she would get me a computer, she saw how hard I was finding it to make friends as we’d moved to a small town and there were only 10 people in my class at the time, including me. None of which understood my magical interest and ambitions. I started joining in with online role playing on the site neopets.com. Now that was a lot of fun! I made up a character called Agetta Black, she was obviously related to Sirius, she was a death eater and could transform into a panther. At the time, there was a lot of other people role-playing with me, and we made up really fun stories… as I grew out of that site the films started to be made. So I was in luck and pre-occupied by them and fan sites such as mugglenet.com, there I learnt a lot of spells and histories behind Quidditch teams etc… My mum actually said if there was a Hogwarts school, she would most defiantly send me there, I know so much about Ancient ruins, Spells, Potions, Mythical creatures… you name it and I know it! It became a huge hobby again, and I pretended I was having private study in Hogwarts. Private lessons in which the faces of all my Harry Potter heroes and logo’s stared down at me from my wall. Loved it.
            The biggest jeopardy I got in loosing my faith in the Harry Potter world was when I got my first ever boyfriend. Christopher Poole, now HE was an amazing guy, and I’m not afraid and ashamed to say he was my love and I still miss him to this day (the old him, he’s actually changed a lot with time… I wont go into that) Well anyway, I didn’t spend much time on the computer anymore, which was absolutely great I guess! However, that meant less time away from Harry Potter… mind you, I still had the posters… the soundtracks… the movies and the books. But the fan-sites, the online role-playing, the fan-faction, the fan-art, the wizard rock was not there…. Then I found out Chris didn’t like Harry Potter, in fact his exact words were, “I loathe it” I loved this boy, we had a lot in common, he just didn’t know this one and truly major thing about me. So I chucked out all evidence of liking Harry Potter. This included deleting a guild I owned with my best friend of the time, Victoria, which was actually called Amortentia.  I lost my best friend, as I wasn’t on the computer to talk to her anymore… the only thing I actually have to remember her by is a set of silver earrings she sent me on my 14^th birthday. Love those earrings, still wear them today actually.  
3 years later. We broke up, I was 16 and that was only one year ago. I didn’t quite know what to do with myself, that’s when I stumbled across youtube… I’m addicted to that website, like…. Seriously and scarily addicted. My best friends are from it actually! And unlike my harry potter friends who are mostly over in America, I actually get the chance to meet up with these friends… but that doesn’t mean Harry Potter was still at the back of my mind.The last book came out, I was in tears by the fact it was over but so happy I read it… it got me back into Harry Potter all over again. Back into the generation and society I’m suppose to thrive in. I’ve taken up with the online role-playing again and my character Agetta Black is back … but with a few changes. Her name is Agetta Ellson, she is a Hufflepuff and specializes in Transfiguration. If you ever hear that name around any Harry Potter role-play sites, she’s me.
            I’ve also got an oncoming project on youtube, combining my two addictions and loves. A vlog site, which is named Amortentias (ring a bell? Hehe) Its going to be me and my two best friends Dan (from America) and Spencer (From Stoke in the UK) and hopefully it’ll last a whole year. I won’t go fully into it, as it’s quite secret at the moment… and I know there are a few people who are reading this blog entry. But what I will say, and what I will end on is … Harry Potter is a part of my life, if you don’t like Harry Potter that’s fine! But if you want to be my friend, you need to learn to live with the fact I don’t live in the real world. I AM a student at Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry. I AM a hufflepuff. I own a wand and I AM a witch. No matter what.

(June 13th - 1am)