Hugs 4 Severus

 Ugh! once again I have dropped the ball and have missed some very important things to post. But none the less here I am ready to entertain you once more. I hope all of you are enjoying Pottermore as much as I Missed the 1st day due to me celebrating mine Harry's and Ms. Rowling's herself, Birthday. Yes yesterday July 31 was my birthday and i said a very happy birthday to the both of them! Until Harry Potter came out, I was very selfish about my birthday if i found out anyone else had the same day as me I did not like it, but that all changed when my 2 favorite people had the same birthday as me So it is all good now! I had a great 21st birthday, spent time with family and my best friends, nothing to wild and crazy but none the less fun! :D I will have more to say about Pottermore the more i get into it and have time i am very busy with school and such at the moment so I hope you all won't mind if for a month or so  I have 2-3 postings instead of 7 or so. 


Now with that taken care of lets get down to what I want to share and have found from Harry Potter. 


The more and more I think about it, read it , watch it, I really have loved Severus Snape all along. I also feel so guilty for the hate I had of him. Like so many, and so much like we as humans do in real life, we judge people before we know them. We don't find out there story, we don't take the time to scrape more than the surface sometimes.But I love that Rowling knew this, knew that we had to have that one Character that in the end we would understand why? why they were who they were and why they did what they did. And thus Severus Snape.
    Rowling has done an amazing job in teaching us, and reminding us of some life lessons. And judging people before you know them, is just one. Many characters in the books we can learn from, but who better than our teacher. Little by little Rowling let us know, tad bits of why Snape hated (or seemed to) Harry. book 1 he seemed to think that Harry was rolling in his Fame and was Arrogant. But he saved his life, and we had no idea why. The underlining story: he promised Dumbledore and because he loved Lilly enough to protect her son, that she died for.  
 It is not really until book 3 that we really start wondering what Snapes deal is. The incident with The Marauders Map for instance, how could that map have known how to properly insult Snape, if it had not been made by those who picked on him in school, which is why I think Lupin found it so amusing, dangerous, but amusing none the less that Harry had obtained the map, Lupin had to cover that he knew Serius at this time, but then again he knew if Serius had the map he would know just how to find Harry or Petigrew. Well back to Snape. As the books go on, we see Harry's view of his father is tainted slightly but what he sees his father do to Snape. But  even then Rowling leads us to believe that Snape and Lilly were at odds, even though she tried to be kind and stand up for him Severus out of jealousy and anger, hurt their friendship by calling her a dirty name. As the 5th and 6th books start to reveal how much Harry really hates Severus, and what seems to be Vice-Versa, we all know by now that Severus's part is even bigger than we could have imagined. 
        Like so many things in life, sometimes it is to late, to fix things or save things. Sometimes at the moment we learn the truth we cannot go back. I remember the 1st time I read the 7th book, and read Severus's story, him and Lilly as children, being separated by houses, him losing the woman he loves to a man he hates. Then losing her completely to the Dark Lord he was in service to and spying on. The promise he made to Dumbledore to watch over Harry, to kill Dumbledore when the time came, to tell Harry everything. And then....Severus the greatest teacher we ever Hated, now the bravest, best man that ever lived....gone. ... and like I always do, I CRIED AND CRIED AND CRIED!!! And when I got to see the visual of it, i cried even harder than when i read it, and I just wanted to give Severus a Hug..... Rowling in all of this not only taught us to (no pun intended) not judge a book by its cover, but to also to do everything we do for the ones we care about and for others out of Love. Severus lived his Life and his actions out of love for someone else. "Greater Love has no one than this, that he may lay down his life for his friends... Love one another as I have loved you, so you must Love one another." -John 15:13 & John 13:34    
* So please hug your Severus today, that friend who has lived their life out of love for you and endured hardships for it. Hug them and love them before the time is to late. And please do not judge a book by its cover, they maybe the Severus Snape that saves your life one day. So i would like to hear from you all, Who is your Severus Snape? Also I am thinking about, using "Hugs 4 Severus" as a tool to raise awareness for Bullying, Teen Harassment and Depression. If you are interested please send me and Email Lyssabee21@gmail.com. I plan on returning to my posting of re-reading the 7th book, but I think once a week I am going to do a posting like this on just one Character and like I have done Snape.* 
...Love protects always, Trusts always, Hopes always, Perseveres always.... Love never Fails....  

I Love Magic

I recently got back from The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Theme park.... Truly an amazing place. That dose not even begin to describe it however.. From the moment you pass under the stone entrance into Hogsmead, that feeling you got the first time u watched the first movie sweeps over you. The rush, the excitement, and the magic. And would'net you know you it, I cried. Not like how I cried in the movie, for loss and "The End" but for realizing, this is not the end, they created something for us, to preserve what we love most. 
    You have right as you walk in, The Hogwarts express, and your first ride, The Dragon Challenge. Now I am not going to give to much a way about the park because everyone needs to experience it in their own way, but a word to the wise, the front is awesome..... the back..... THE BEST. but the how you defeat your dragon is up to you so that is all I will say about that, and let you live the magic.. 

     The shops, you have Dervish and Bangs, Honeydukes, Zonkos Joke Shop, Olivanders, The 3 Broomsticks, The Hogs Head. I got my want and I love it. I got a calender want and I will let them tell you all about how that works, but it is an amazing experience. I wish they would have had Weasley's Wizard Weezes, but they had some of their products which was fun all the same.  You work your way up from their to Hagrids Hut, and the next ride which sadly is not a lot of fun, it is a child's ride after all but it could have been awesome, and that one is the Flight of the Hippogrif. And then..... Hogwarts, no words can really describe the beauty and the reality that goes with it. They got it perfect. That ride is truly BOSS!!! You get to experience some of your favorite parts of Harry Potter from other books, and you get to see Hogwarts. 
     From butterbeer, to dragons, to spells and enchantments. The magic is moving and beautiful. You get to relive and be a part of the world I think a lot of us call home too, just like Harry. You feel the rush of your first wand, and the special tingle of butterbeer. You feel relief and triumph when u when your Dragon challenge. And at the end of the day, when you head back to your hotel or condo or home, you truly can hear people say, "It feels weird to be going home doesn't?" And you know the answer.... "I'm not going home.... not really."                                          

The End? - Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Pt.2 Movie Review

1st things 1st I am soooooo sooo sooo sorry this has taken so long we left for vacation on Friday and it has been none stop since then. today however we are taking it EZ in the condo we did 2 really long days in the park and need to rest, but we will be back to it tomorrow.

So the movie review 1st. I hope by now most of you have seen the movie, if not then i am sorry if i ruin anything for you. But hopefully you have read the book because that is most important.  

    Over all I LOVED THE MOVIE. Definitely met all of my expectations even went above and beyond. I had a blast, i went with my girl Chelsey and saw a bunch of friends. I was in the the very first showing the 12:01 showing, its where all the hardcore fans are. There were duels and even a Harry Potter Puppet Pals reenactment by a few people. I took a pillow and had a like 1/2 my theater sign it.    

As the opening credits began I lost all control and the tears began to roll down. the flashes from the 1st movie to catch you back up to where you were, was a great way to transition movies. The time spent in Bill in Flures place was well done, i understood why it had to be brief and why they could not keep it as long as it was in the book, but over all very good. Once in the bank i felt the movie really took form, Hermione being Belitrix was great. Helena Bonahm Carter not being herself was great i give her props. Once inside the vault, the special effects with the cups was some of the coolest i have seen. 

    As the movie went on and we meet Aberforth and get back in to Hogwarts i felt like the trueness and pureness that is Harry Potter, and that what we fell in love with came back to life. And i think it was all do to the presence of being back where it all started in Hogwarts, and there it ended. 

       From the books to the movies, Rowling has taught us an amazing lesson, one we forget all to often; that sometimes people are not always as we see the, and things are not always as they seem. How many of us hated Snape from book 1? How many of us until book 5 asked why did Snape really hate James so much? And then I know for me, I asked why, why would Dumbledore plead with Snape at the end of book 6? And all these questions at some point got answered, but  the full magnitude of them were made clear, at the end... of course.  

"It was always you?" Snape loved... did we ever think that possible? He loved Lilly, and in turn loved Harry to much for him to know, He killed Dumbledore, because Dumbledore told him to, as part of a way to save Harry. Snape saw the almost cruel way that Harry had been raised, raised to at some point die. Snape died, but not before he most honorably let Harry know everything, something Harry had really wanted his whole life. And he got it from the man who he thought he hated most. In that moment in the movie as Snape gave up all, all he had kept hidden, we see, that Snape all along was good, could be trusted, and became our most loved character. And I bawled.

     Someone else who I think deserves notice in this movie, is Neville. From about book 4 we really start to see someone who, who is more and means more than everyone else thinks. We see how close he came to living Harry's life, to being the boy who lived. In book 5 and in the movie Neville says something, that becomes his reality in the end. "Dumbledore's Army is about doing something real." Those who fought in that final in the movie and in the book, were all part of Dumbledore's army, were all fighting for him, for Harry and the world they love, they were fighting for something real. Neville's speech at then end of part 2 was perfect.  Neville, avenged his parents, became a leader, and I am sure his gram was proud. 

    The movie for the most part was faithful to the book, faithful to our hopes, and had a faithful end. Why? Because we have been faithful. We to found a part of us fighting for Harry, for Dumbledore, for Fred, for Neville's parents, for Snape. Look at all we have done in 13 years, We defeated the Stone. We found the Chamber. We freed the Prisoner . We were chosen by the Goblet. We fought along side the Order. We learned from the Prince. And We mastered the Hallows.... We are Harry Potter Generation.