Harry Potter

Spoiler Warning: Contains material that reveals the plot of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows". Don't read further if you have not read the book.

Long time since my last post, its not that i did not have anything worthwhile to write, its just like people say "I was busy".

So Harry Potter's last book in the series was released on 21st, and i was happy that The Boy Who Lived, Lives. It was a bit annoying that media and news papers have revealed it before i even started reading the book. I started reading the book and finished in two straight days, i warned everyone around me that i am not to be disturbed while reading... I don't know if i have the vocabulary to describe how it was written but i am sure it topped all the previous books, absolutely splendidly marvelously beautifully terrifically fantastic.

Some of you might roll your eyes thinking "its a story for kids", it was a story for kids till the second book and if anybody has observed it was no longer a fairy tale for kids.

I was very eager to finish the book because of the secrets it held and thought of completing it in one day. When i started reading the book i realized that it is going to be the last, then i slowed down letting every sentence sink into my memory and started visualizing the characters, their surroundings, their attitude, their emotions everything, thanks to the Harry Potter movies released till now.

Even though i knew he was going to live, at a point i thought that he actually is going to die and become immortal in hearts of his friends. However one thing i have been guessing came true. Since i have read the third book i somehow guessed that professor Snape was on Dumbledore's side and by the end of the sixth book i was sure that killing Dumbledore was part of an agreement between Snape and himself . I was not sure of the reason. I was actually expecting Dumbledore to reappear again, which he did but not in the living world.

Thank You JKR for the adventure, for the fantasy, for bringing an entirely different world to life which is more or less the same as our world. The memories of the journey with Harry Potter will live forever with me and millions of others around the world.

Memoirs

I started this blog site with a poem named "Memories" and didn't want to use the same for this one. So i am using the French version of the same title. Unlike the first one this is about memories themselves. Like many other things we don't realize the importance of them until we lose them.

Now you might wonder why did this guy even started thinking about them. No particular reason, i keep thinking and wondering about almost everything in life. I remember the landlady of the house we stayed during my UK trip asking me if i liked UK, to which i replied "yes its lovely and beautiful, but nothing like India". I didn't plan on saying the second half , it just came out.

Why did i even say that? What made me say that? There should be something back there that made me say that. What is it, that is not in UK and is in India that made me say that. I definitely know it is not the feeling of patriotism. To tell you the truth by the age of 14, my plans were to leave India, Finish my PG in USA, Get a Job and earn Dollars big time. Of course i thought i would return after earning enough , but if i didnt want to return i could have always used that bond movie title "The World is Not Enough". Things didn't go the way i planned and thats another story. So what i am saying is once my dream was to live in USA, now i have visited both USA and UK and i liked them too, and i got a chance to work in USA, but i turned it down.

If i start thinking i could go on and on about the plus points those countries have and India doesn't. Then what made me say what i have said. I remember a dialog in "Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge". When one of the characters asks another character who has lived his entire life in UK and has returned to India. "What difference do you see in the pigeons that you are feeding over here and the ones in London?", to which the character responds beautifully. No i am not going to write it down here , go watch the movie. So when i think about the answer i realized how true it is, everything is great and beautiful and organized and clean and what not, but i don't have any memories attached to them. I can't relate those places with anything in my life, and then you get a feeling that it is not yours.

It is a different story back at home, i have loads of memories, i can relate everything around with every moment of my life. The street where i have learnt to ride a bicycle, my first accident, the terrace i used to hide from getting an evening bath, long walks on the railway tracks, running in fields, the friends i made, the reasons i broke up, lying on my back and watching shooting stars on warm summer evenings all the while talking to my friend about almost everything under the sun and finding solutions to the world's problems, my first punishment, the times i have spent in my dads lap, the times i wouldn't leave my mom's side, my first crush, my first fight, the schools and colleges i have studied, my first job, my first bike, everything. Now i know that though i have traveled thousands of miles i left my entire life back home, and it is those memories that made me say what i have said and it is those memories that will bring me back home no matter where i go.

I am not trying to say that those who have left the country and settled down elsewhere don't carry those memories in their heart. Everybody does, and it is those memories that bring them back home one day or the other.

Yes there are always exceptions, of those who wouldn't want to return, probably they don't have enough memories back home or they might have built some beautiful memories that they wouldn't want to leave. Even in that case my point holds good, India or USA or UK or anywhere in the world, it is your memories you are holding to. For those of you, with memories back home here is a link, enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxkodD_t8QE


and here is the link to the same song from the movie Swades

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC-RFFIMXlA&mode=related&search=