My experience reading the Harry Potter series has always
been a very absorbing one. The only
division I find in that experience has been between that written world and my
physical world. I always find ways to
identify with characters when I read, and attempt to put myself in their
situations; sometimes I even forget that I am reading fictional works from a
whole other, and also fictional, person’s perspective. The first time I read the series I was mostly
just absorbing and experiencing a completely new world, and each following time
reading the series I was digging deeper into this world and immersing myself
even further into the magic. Each time
it is complicated to pull myself out of the fictional world and reintroduce
myself to the world in which I live.
While reading I found myself identifying with Ron Weasley,
seeing as I am the youngest child in my family; actually, I am the only
youngest child in my family, since both of my parents are the oldest in their
families. I identified particularly with
the scene in which Ron looks into the Mirror and Erised and sees himself
stepping out from the shadow of his older brothers. When I first started college, my only hope
was to finally not have a teacher that asks me if I am related to my older
sister, but of course one of my professors did.
Also, Ron and I share a fear of spiders.
I could see an only child that focuses his or her energy
into education could identify with Hermione, or an obviously least favored
child or even an adopted child identifying with Harry. On the other hand, a lonely child from a
wealthy family could see from the perspective of Draco. Or even Dudley, to a certain degree of
wealth. I would love to read the book
from the perspective of Ron Weasley to get more of a backstory on his life in
the first two books or Hermione to hear how ridiculous she finds Harry and Ron
at times. Seeing Hermione’s reflection
in the Mirror of Erised would have also been very interesting.
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