Potter! Potter! , like a dumb slytherin would perhaps say. The hype, the drama, the spoilers, the bettings, the make-believe all seem to characterize every Potter release. I have a brother and a sister and incredibly a mom who’s hooked onto them. I personally stopped after the fourth one. Always reminded me of this guy called Adnan who was in my 4th standard class and was quite good at telling stories. Come a free period and the teachers would summon him to tell us a story. The guy was so good at it that he used to make them as he went along from scratch. Magicians, kings, queens, thieves, farmers, animals, potions, flying carpets, tunnels, magic rings etc etc would all get spun and pass through his hands. His favourite word was ‘Actually’ which he used quite liberally. “The thief was actually a king in disguise”, and our thief reborn as a king would again go on for some part of the story when the twist came in again, “Actually the king was a magician…”. I have to admit he carried it off quite superbly though.
I wonder what he’s upto now and what he did with his life. Sigh!
