Reading

The first books I have ever read where the. ones of the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling.
The urge for this reading was inspired first by the movies that i watcged as an early blossoming teenager.
Something about the creation of a whole multiverse were the wizardry truths were the truths appealed to me dearly. And everytime I watched the movies I was struck by the magic (pun intended) of this world, Aling side Harry, the viewer too entered the wizarding world as an ignorant muggle and learnt with time the secrets, truths abd realities of Harry’s existence.
But with every moment into the new movie or a transition, Harry seemed okay and in the know with most of the things that as a viewer I couldn’t grasp.
At these times, I understood that there were loopholes in the movie that seem like logical gaps but are understood only when one has read the foundation.
These are the things that prompted me to buy the first book.
And truly, the book really put in perspective the things that did not make perfect comprehension in the movies. Yes, the movies were magical for putting an image on tge words and bringing them to life but there is something especially magical about using the power of imagination to build from scratch the world that the movies had obly tibgled the imagination.
Harry Potter and the series made room for the creativity and imagination that the authors intend for the readers. While the magic seems to be a powerful metaphor for the power of an author’s pen.
Harry’s story, this narrative becomes central issue of a colonised, entering a new context abd becoming the dominant. The boy who was nothing all but not wanted by the dursleys becomes the boy who lived. This reversal of fortune is both inspiring and important evidence of context for destiny to thrive.
I have read numerous times fanfictions that built upon this magic and attempt to write different versions of tye books or even digressions and substories that were otherwise ignored or remained on the margins, or even stories that could be but weren’t and would survive under different circumstances and context.
Such marginal stories making it to the surface is what brings about the issue of subaltern voices of spivak out too, in my opinion.
Ps: these are just opinions and may be biased.