What makes Harry Potter feel like Home?
The Harry Potter series has become the kind of story you go back to, over and over again, the kind of world we want to disappear into. But why?
I’ve contemplated this question many times before. What makes Harry Potter the book I – and so many others – always go back to, the one world, out of so many amazing fictional ones, we want to disappear into?
Maybe it’s because so many of us grew up with the books, and even to this day, feel like Harry, Ron, Hermione, Luna, Gina, Neville and the rest are, well, our friends. Perhaps it’s because in so many ways, it feels like we’re living our version of the Second War, and retreating into the world of Harry Potter makes us feel like it’s possible to win.
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Or maybe it’s just because JK Rowling hit lightning with her story of the boy wizard.
The answer, of course, is likely all the above. I don’t think JK Rowling set out to write the defining book of our generation, the way no one sets out to write anything for any other reason than the story wants to be told, and we have a vague idea someone will like it.
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But, the time, and the characters, made it so that all of us fund someone to relate to, or likely, a moment where we could relate to each character. We’ve all, after all, felt the full range of emotions, just like these characters.
We’ve been scared.
We’ve been brave.
We’ve been smart.
We’ve been overwhelmed.
And maybe, just maybe, in this day and age, Harry Potter is not just a reminder the world can be better, perhaps it’s also a reminder we, as people, can be better.
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That’s about as good a reason to hold on as anything there is, isn’t it?