On this day in 2007, in England (and a couple of days later across the world) the seventh and final Harry Potter book titled "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" went on sale for the first time.
Ten years since the first of the series was published by amazing and awe-inspiring author J.K Rowling, the seventh Potter book broke records for being the fastest-selling book ever, with more than 15 million copies sold in the first 24 hours. In both America and Great Britain alone, more than 11 million copies of the book were sold. The book went to break records in the other 93 countries were it was sold. The novel is also translated into 120 different languages including some of the more obscure ones such as Ukranian.
I've already talked in a previous post about how much I love Harry Potter. I can remember being so excited to buy and read the last book. I was in grade eight at the time and had already read all of the previous books almost religiously. Just ask yourself, seriously for a moment, what child born in the nineties did not fantasise and dream about getting their letter to go to Hogwarts? It was just a book series that reached into the hearts and minds of so many children and young adults. I loved it. I mean, I still go back and re-read the books and I don't think I will ever stop doing that. It's almost tradition. And what with the movies and the audio books all begin released you will continually be able to live and look at that magical world, hoping to become a part of it.
So, now that that's out of the way, my little love confession for Harry Potter, I would like to make a more serious note.
What is up with terrible drivers? Not just public transport drivers, but people, ordinary men and women such as yourselves, driving so recklessly that I almost die not once, but twice within two blocks? I do not like driving in the city and can you blame me when I'm on a bus (a large moving object that you can all, hopefully, see from quite the distance away, and yet there is still the possibility that some idiot driver will turn the wrong way down a one way street and almost crash into the bus directly in the window next to my seat? Come on people! P platers get a bad rep for being terrible drivers but what about the people that taught us to drive? Somewhere along the line you, the mass population, have to recognise that it's not all the p platers that are terrible drivers. There are terrible drivers in every age demographic except for toddlers and children.
And if they're the ones that are driving, so help us all!!
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