Personal Narrative: The Love Of The Harry Potter World

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Imagine there is a place where one 's imagination can run wild, a place where it is socially acceptable to walk around in a costume and carry a magic wand, a place where people from all over the world of different races, genders, and classes have one thing in common, their love for Harry Potter. I am proud to be one of those people. While I toss and turn, I stare at the clock and time seems to be moving extra slow. It is three in the morning, and I have to be awake in less than two hours to meet my friends that I haven 't seen in over a year at Universal Studios. I can barely contain my excitement because I will be spending two days in Harry Potter World. I grew up in the generation when J.K. Rowling was writing fascinating novels about magic. …show more content…
Diagon Alley is main street in the little town of Hogsmeade, where most wizards live. I am so giddy, I am behaving like a five year old child. I meet my friends Michele and Nate in the lobby of the hotel, I greet them with endearing hugs. I met Michele when I did my internship for teaching, and she took me in and treated me like her daughter. Her son Nate is eight years old, and he has read all the Harry Potter books, he loves it just as much as I do. Nate and I are both wearing Hogwarts attire, all him and I need now is a magic wand to complete it. The first stop we make is at the wand shop called Olivanders. Nate gets the wand of Lord Voldermort, who is also the dark Wizard in all seven books. I pick the wand that belongs to Hermione Granger, she is a good witch and plays a major role in the books. Her character also portrays a complete know it all as well, and I can relate to …show more content…
The breakfast is so delicious, and the restaurant portrays such a resemblance to the actual thing in the movie. I feel as if I am really in the movie. When we are finished with our breakfast we decide to go wait in for the new ride called "Escape to Gringrots." Gringots is the bank in the Wizarding world, sitting on top of the Gringots building is a fire breathing dragon protecting the bank. The dragon is on a timer, so every five minutes it spits out fire, and if you stand close enough you can feel the heat being radiated

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