Ask any Potter fan "D for" and the answer would be "Dumbledore" nine out of ten times.
Dumbledore is a brilliant , powerful , experienced wizard who is the headmaster at Hogwarts school of magic and is an ideal educator. Every school going kid would envision him as dream headmaster. ( who dreams of headmasters anyways!) . He is fearless and the only character in the book that calls the main antagonist by his first name while the rest of the world refers to him as You-Know-Who. He is a very inspiring person though fictional.
Diagon Alley is like the Walmart of the wizarding world . It's a street where there are numerous shops selling books and brooms and owls and cloaks. At the beginning of almost every book, the children have a day out at Diagon Alley excitedly buying what they need for the following year.
Buying new things for a new academic year is fun isn't it ? Freshly smelling new books, notebooks , stationary, calculators , lunch bags , shoes, socks , school bags, water bottle- its shopping fun. Not to mention the joy in wrapping the books in brown paper or transparent wrappers and labelling them .
I still get very excited when I do this annual exercise for my children.
I love browsing the store shelves picking the perfect lunchbox and the most elegant looking water bottle.
The first time I got a geometry box or a scientific calculator for that matter - my joy knew no bounds !
This is the situation for mundane Muggle(non magic) objects . What if one were to buy an owl or a broom to fly ??
You took me back to those days, when I bought new books for my son and covered them with brown papers and stuck labels!
ReplyDeleteA broom to fly? Well, that will help me travel around the world to see places!
Oh labels ... I remember there were plain ones and those with pretty pics :)
DeleteI agree: Dumbledore! And Dobby, too! I would love to have a Diagon Alley for Muggle ;))
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I would love to visit Diagon Alley and Dobby is definitely one of my favorites.
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The excitement for back to school shopping exists in the muggle world but it doesn't quite have the same magic as Diagon Alley. We don't even get to pick out a wand (or have a wand pick us). Weekends In Maine
ReplyDeleteIf only I could buy a magical broom to fly!
ReplyDeleteYour post brought back the memories of my childhood. Themed stickers for the books were a huge decision to make. Should it be Tom & Jerry, Barbie, or Bung Bunny?
Lovely post - I remember the joy of covering my books with coloured sticky plastic, and my first scientific calculator. We were so excited by little things.
ReplyDeleteInvisibility cloak (Covid-protected) would be a great item to add to the list of school/life supplies right now.
ReplyDeleteCovering my text books with brown paper with precise folds to make the edges sharp is part of childhood nostalgia I cherish.
This is great. I agree about the invisibility cloak. Also, a brookstick for flying would be nice. It would definitely enhance transportation for me! I could fly over the river! Or... maybe a few art supplies...
ReplyDeleteI really struggled with the depiction of Dumbledore in the later films. Richard Harris was perfect - as it was easy to believe in his status of great wizard, while I found Michael Gambon's portrayal entirely too dotty to believe that.
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That was a popular reaction to the replacement. I have heard it so often that I kind of sympathise with the latter
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