Month: August 2016

​Fantastic Beasts and Cursed Children

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 The hype has reached and died down as well. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has finally been viewed in the theatres of West End, and the play- in book form- has been released across the world in, selling two million copies in two days.  That’s crazy right? Who’d have ever thought, that that magic that we saw, way back in 2007 would come back to us in 2016? And not just once but twice. Now a lot of us are sad because we don’t live in England and therefore cannot possibly go and see the play version of the story. I know I was. But now we get a book as consolation. However, (I haven’t read the book yet so no spoilers here.) It seems that the book is just lazily written. According to my good friends, who are currently reading the book themselves and have been kind enough to inform me, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is fanfiction. In the nine long years that all Potterheads have been living without any new material, they have taken to Tumblr and various other sites to write their own stories. Headcannons, One-shots, whole stories too. According to the people who have read it, this is what the play script consists of. All of the fanfiction of the people of the internet. 
I heard all of this and I still want to read the book. I suppose my great respect for this magical series probably fuels my desire to complete this book and learn this story for myself before jumping to conclusions that revolve around the stuff that others are telling me. But I can also say, grudgingly, that after so long, we fans are so DESPERATE for new material that we’ll take everything. The good the bad and the ugly.

In November we have more to look forward to. Yes, I’m talking about Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The movie that is set to release later this year, stars Eddie Redmayne and more importantly (for me and a few similar others in our Potter community) a HUFFLEPUFF IN THE SPOTLGHT *serious fist punching the air, fireworks and celebratory noises*. Yes, for the first time there is a Hufflepuff main character who the story revolves around. For a house that was always in the background this is so huge! And also, Eddie Redmayne… Like do I even need to say anything more?

Anyway, so I can say I’m looking forward more, to the movie myself what with a Puff protagonist and American Wizard culture. The excitement is rising.

Mediocrity…

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I’ve always been the boring one. Always done what I’ve been told and rebelling only when it really gets necessary. I’ve always listened to my elders, submitted work on time, done what I had to be normal. Mediocrity defines me. I’m just there. Never at the top and never at the bottom. But always in the middle. Sometimes I come close to the extremes but I never actually reach. I am the stem of the flower. Not the root nor the petals. Merely the stem. I can both hold it all up and also have it all crash down on me. I’ve given up trying to be perfect. Perfection is too high of a goal for me to reach. At the same time to be at the bottom is scary too. To be trampled on by everyone else is not something I look forward to. Then all that’s left is the middle. The safe zone. The comfort zone. The boring zone.  Swaddled up in the warmth of the middle often I can find myself choking. No matter how much I stretch to try and reach the top, I cannot. Even the things I love most I cannot be the best. 

When I was in the first school I ever went to, I apparently told my parents- after coming first in the class- that I never want to be first. Ever. I don’t know why but my mother says that ever since then I wouldn’t do my studies properly and I just began to lag behind with everything.

I suppose it’s a thing that happens when you are born lazy too. The lethargy in my bones spread to my muscles carried around in my blood, swirling around in my body making me want to simply lie down and never move. I was always told that I was good at things. But never the best. The last few times I went up to do things that I supposedly excelled in I failed miserably. And I say this not because I failed as in came last in a competition, but because I failed to reach my goal. I aim for the stars and slip on a banana peel half way up the stairs and fall right back down to the previous floor. 

Mediocrity rules my life. I am her, she is me. Never the one in the spotlight, neither the one in the darkness but always the one in the shadows….