My Earliest Memory of the Harry Potter Series and Why it is Special

Everyone’s first memory of the Harry Potter series means a lot to fans everywhere but reading the books for the first time was different for me.

The Harry Potter series is important to so many of us. Especially me and you since I’m writing on a website dedicated to it and you’re reading this. But for me, the first time I was handed a Harry Potter book is still extremely special. My fourth grade teacher knew that the movie was coming out that November, so she wanted us to read the first book.

For me, I read it in a week and was onto Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets before anyone else in my class had finished chapter six. But more importantly, it was in September of 2001. For those who don’t remember what happened on the eleventh of that month, there was a terrorist attack in New York and Washington D.C and, for me, it hit home. Really. My mother flew into New York that day but luckily came home alive and well.

But when I was afraid and didn’t know what to do, I turned to reading the Harry Potter series. I opened up the book and lost myself in it until my mom came home. I read that book as if it would make all the scary things in the real world go away.

So when people ask me why this is my favorite book series, I can safely say that it has helped me through countless hard times. Mainly because Harry Potter takes you away to a world full of magic and there is nothing I want more in this world than a letter telling me I’ve been accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.