Parting is such sweet sorrow

I have just finished the last of the Harry Potter novels(?). In most ways it is a relief to be finished. It is as if a chapter from my childhood has finally closed. It has been something I have grown up with.

I will not go as far as to say that they are classic literature, but Rowling has managed to create an impressive world. I think they greatest accomplishment of these books would be the increased interest in reading they have sparked in people across the world. I remember seeing an editorial from several years back featuring a young man reading one of the Harry Potter books and his parents behind saying, "Is this our illiterate son?"

As for my own writing, in relation to Potter, I don't think I have taken much. Rowling's style is not exactly my thing. This in mind, this whole Harry Potter thing has inspired a poem entitled "Tears for Dumbledore." It is my look at understanding the strange attachment we develop for fictional characters. I may post it some time later.

I may post again shortly with a new poem. The emotion in my life hasn't stopped and neither has the poetry.