HARRY POTTER: BOOK THAT CHANGED MY PERSPECTIVE TOWARDS LIFE
By: Priya Israni
Tags: Life, Harry Potter, Words, Books, Magic

HARRY POTTER: BOOK THAT CHANGED MY PERSPECTIVE TOWARDS LIFE

Magic!! Wizards!! These words have significance in my life. No matter how fanciful they sound but the power these words are incomparable to anything thing in the real world. Still, I believe it is good to be imaginary till when you are reading a novel or watching a movie.

Once Mark Twain said: Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

I agree with his thoughts. Well, when I hear someone saying “BOOK” deep down my heart a little child wakes up recalling just one name “HARRY POTTER”. Some will say being a potter head is just being puerile.

Well, I have my theory about this: Harry Potter is not a normal fictional protagonist for me, who was beautifully sculpted with enthralling words of the author JK Rowling, but a strong kid who taught me; "Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.” This was my very first lesson which hit my soul hard stating the fact no matter what happened “Time waits for none.”

Recollecting the bits of memories which are left far behind nevertheless still the threads of happiness coupled to my heart. It might be childish, but I presume what we learn in childhood will continue to with us till the end of life until we acquire something better than that knowledge and the book of Harry Potter was my first learning towards ethics and evil.

I wonder how time has changed and how our theories and aspects related to life are still altering. But, the one thing which can never change is my love for the book “HARRY POTTER”. Down the lane, when I look behind my decisions and values are quite similar to what I have learnt after reading these books. There was nothing extra in this series, but the way words were moulded to believe that ‘evil will always lose’ was different. Likewise, these series let me scrutinize the fact that never think your opponent is weak there is equal power in both, but the truth and the smart person wins.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was my first ever novel which I started reading when I was in class 7 and which shifted my perspective for life, world and everything in the most dramatic way. Hogwarts was my first dream school where I was eager to go and reading spells loudly ‘Wingardium Laviosa’.

Starting from reading just one novel I was trapped in curiosity to know what happened next when Albus Dumbledore said — “The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing and should therefore be treated with great caution”. As a kid, when I was reading this book I was so convinced by the words and characters that I used to think these characters are in real and each struggling in their ways to make this world a beautiful place. For me, Dumbledore was that old man with a long beard who has the supreme power to elect between wrong and right. He taught me never to lose faith in yourself and doubt your intentions. Trusting yourself is the biggest challenge which you have already accepted, so no chance to look back and betray yourself.

The best fragment of this novel was when Harry was to choose for one of the 4 houses (Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Slytherin, and Hufflepuff) where the sorting hat used to place as per the what we truly are but as per his abilities he belonged to Slytherin( a group of darker wizards) but he was sent to Gryffindor. And then Dumbledore said — ‘It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities’. This line has a wonderful meaning which made me understood that everything is on us, this game is far from just the abilities. Life gives us choices for moulding our mind and soul and to achieve that is our ability.

This craving for knowing what happened next shoved me to the next chapter of Harry and his allies to that chamber of secrets where I understood, fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself and we have to be brave enough to face all the deeds of life. Hermione Granger was my all-time favourite that girl taught me no matter from where you have come from and how much you bullied the dedication towards your task will always lead you the triumph. Likewise, Ron Weasley that one friend who used to mess up everything but in end, he is the strongest knots of all the ropes.

One by one I was winding up the rest of the parts and I don’t know when I got indulged into that imaginary story that I used to think the way I read. Each part of this tale taught me some lesson, the lessons of bravery, friendship, loyalty and poised nature.

And in the end, the great sinister around which the story was revolving was the Voldemort, he tried to wreck the solitude of Hogwarts but he vanished into ashes. But his words, “There is no good and evil. There is only power, and those too weak to seek it” put me into deep thought that this is also up to us what we want to be, the god has shaped us into a human body and he did not decide whether to be evil or good, it was us who used our powers in diverse ways to delegate ourselves in the game life.

The series of Harry Potter was that book which renewed some of my perspective towards life. There is a lot more in life ahead which I will learn and still learning with each day there is a new beginning to explore something new. All does that matter is discipline, honesty and trust in self.

And like the Dumbledore said — “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”