"expecto patronum"

[Chuck Jackson]

[geneman06]

Chuck Jackson wrote:

indeed

[geneman06]

for some reason, I dont remember posting here...

[Nick Pierce]

I second that notion.

[iiipopes]

Heartwarming moments? Let's see, there was this 5-alarm chili I had some time ago; a cold beer took care of it.

[OldsRecording]

Brian- this is why you must NEVER drink the bong water...

[Brassdad]

If you're getting a sack of sinkers...you gotta wash 'em down with these!

[The Jackson]

When I had no power for about a week when Hurricane Katrina hit Florida, I whipped out my Harry Potter books and just started reading them. I'm still astonished by how fast I read them. I finished the first on one day, and the second the next.

[Nick Pierce]

Then I'll translate. Just the happiest moment of your life. Not something simple, like being happy when laughing at one of Blokes funny posts, but almost like a divine experience happy. I'm sure some of us on here would mention performing a certain piece of music, one memory I would consider would be performing Kingfishers Catch Fire by John Mackey with a high school honor band at a near-by University. Perhaps the first time you met your wife, or your wedding day, I don't know, it's personal for everyone. Does that help a bit?

And to the OP, I don't know about everyone else, but I could read your original post just fine, I was just shocked, as shocked as you were probably, by what happened in your story, hence they .

And as a side note, I am proud to say that within eight hours of the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, I had completed it.

Also, I liked it, it did make me think. Thanks for posting it.

[PWtuba]

Having never read the books I still do not get it. So others will have to share. Sounds awfully "new age" to me. I will stick to the Lord of the Rings.

My thoughts exactly.

Although, Harry Potter is clearly not a children's book, as I feel like I'm the only person at my high school who has not memorized the entire series.

[OldsRecording]

I've read all of the Harry Potter books and enjoyed them immensely. Kids books maybe....but would you also say that Huckleberry Finn is a kids book? Tom Sawyer? In my opinion, it is landmark literature that has been written in the last decade. Give it a try.....

Hell, yeah! I've read Deathly Hallows several times and I still think it's pretty damn cool. Right up there with Tolkein and Richard Adams (Watership Down). Now, the big question- if you could, in fact, shout "Expecto Patronum!" and conjure up a Patronus, what would it be? I believe mine would be a giant, winged, guinea pig.

[Todd S. Malicoate]

Wow.

I like fantasy and make-believe as much as the next guy, but...wow.

[k001k47]

I CAN'T UNREAD IT

The replies, that is...

[Biggs]

I'll attempt a clarification.

1.) Brian does not believe that each of us have magic animals that appear to protect us. In the Harry Potter series, people do have magic animals that appear and protect them - but they only appear when people think of the happiest moment of their lives.

2.) Brian, having been exposed to this idea, via the Harry Potter series, recalled the happiest moment of his life and shared it here in an attempt to encourage others to think about and perhaps share the happiest moments of their lives.

3.) Magic animals have nothing to do with this. Here's a summary of Brian's OP:

*I just remembered the happiest moment of my life. The happiest moment of my life occurred while I was at the public-speaking thing. Think about the happiest moment of your life and share if you so desire. - Brian*

Any clearer?


In the spirit of things, the happy moment I'll share is from my senior year of high school. My high school didn't have a newspaper, so I helped put together an 'unofficial' one and, after it became wildly popular, became the editor. The paper was notorious for being critical of the administration, as well as poke fun at our school's outrageous drug problem and other 'taboo' topics. The high school principal (who was, for numerous reasons not touched on here, a grade-A dick) wasn't fond of the publication and, during one of our regular meetings (he would routinely pull me from class to try to flatter, intimidate, or otherwise control my spirit) he told me that if I shut down the paper, he would personally oversee the creation of a 'legitimate' paper and put me in charge. According to him, this would not only eliminate the budget issues faced by my paper, but provide me with "a proper foundation to pursue a higher level of journalism." Naturally, I declined his offer.

Later that year, USA TODAY and The Freedom Forum named me as Massachusetts' most outstanding high-school journalist, paid for me to attend an incredible conference for young journalists, awarded me a college scholarship, and provided me with more encouragement in one week than my school did in four years. I wore my medal over my graduation gown (this was forbidden; for some reason our principal decreed that out-of-school awards could not be displayed at school ceremonies such as graduation) and rubbed his nose in what I could accomplish despite not having "a proper foundation to pursue a higher level of journalism."