Where do we draw the line between fiction and reality?

The title to this may seem a little pointless, but I assure you it’s not. As an avid reader of the Harry Potter books, I can safely say it’s extremely easy to be misguided by the worlds of fantasy crammed tightly into a few hundred pages and all the more effortless to allow the mind to slip into false hopes of fiction having a chance at reality. I have spent many hours contemplating life as a Hogwarts student, resulting in my deep interests in castle – structured buildings; Durham and York Cathedral appeal to me greatly as my brain automatically associates them with Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, immediately dragging me to my ‘happy place’. These stone giants are my closest links to the world I so passionately crave.

Still don’t see much point to this? Well, on its own this demonstrates the power creative writing can have upon a person; I’m not saying I’m a hysterical Harry Potter fan – well, I suppose that could be debatable – but fiction reveals our private hopes and dreams, all down to an inspired mind.

J.K. Rowling has a number of naïve children secretly believing they are in for a chance of discovering that one coveted letter that would change everything...(I won’t lie, I was always slightly scared I’d receive one, all down to my homesick gene)...and I can safely inform you, no such post ever littered my porch floor.

Stephanie Meyer has a handful of her fans claiming vampires are indeed among us, after all, how can you say they don’t exist when there is no evidence to back the point? I must admit that however much of a Twilight fan I am currently not, after spending a whole day hungrily devouring the pages of book one many months ago, I did believe that the main man of evil (James) was after me...in my defence I was half asleep and from then on discovered that if you eat, sleep and breathe a book, the plot is bound to hijack your dreams.

To wrap up my first and hopefully partially interesting blog entry, I do hope that within the three paragraphs above, your attention has been somewhat gripped. Enjoy my blog and indulge in my own diverse texts I will soon have posted on here! J