June, She'll Change Her Tune

Once upon a time, a woman (now-famous but then-anonymous) set out to write a fictional book series about a young wizard with the initials of H.P. In this series, young H.P. performs magic, makes friends, finds love, and consistently evades death. He is by turns handsome, daring, angry, foolish, sneaky, resourceful, and ultimately victorious. All is fair in love and war, and our H.P. wins at both.

This anonymous woman, with the initials of J.K.R., steadily gained popularity as she created her wizarding world, and soon the whole real world was following the exploits of H.P., all the way through to the seventh and ultimate book of the series. The movies then started rolling out. The H.P. world is now on the big screen. The word on the streets of the real world is that six movies are out and two more are coming. H.P. is what some might call a "phenomenon."

Now we introduce the third character of our oddly-vague narrative, a recent college graduate with the initials of S.S. This S.S., being an anti-establishment sort of person, vehemently resisted the "H.P. Craze" for many years. Not wanting to bother with all of the fuss, S.S. avoided all things H.P. - the books, the movies, and the conversations. She knew some assorted trivia, but not enough to understand. It was easiest simply to ignore H.P. altogether.

Well, S.S. had started to hear that the final H.P. movie installment was set to be released in July of the year 2010. S.S. was beginning to think that maybe her resistance to the popular H.P. movement was harming only herself. After all, if something is wildly popular, perhaps that is because it is good? So, S.S. resolved, at last, to give in, and buy into this media craze. She determined to read all seven of the H.P. books, and watch all six of the released H.P. movies, all before the release of the final one.

On June 1, 2010, S.S. began her H.P. journey. It was not many pages into Book One before our protagonist was hooked by the adventures of J.K.R.'s protagonist. Being a fairly speedy reader, as well as being unemployed, S.S. devoured all seven books in a matter of seventeen days. Next she attacked the movies, much as J.K.R.'s antagonists attack her protagonist. By the evening of June 29, 2010, S.S. had completed the viewing of all six available H.P. movies.

At some point in this modern-day adventure, S.S. was informed that she had been misinformed. The seventh H.P. movie was not only not to be the final H.P. movie, but also it was not to be released until November of the year 2010.

The Horror!! S.S. must now wait several more months before the release of Movie Seven, which does not depict Book Seven, but merely Book Seven, Part One. Patience, while being a virtue, is not an easy thing. Our protagonist, not being perfect, possesses less-than-ideal amounts of patience. S.S. cannot believe that she will have to wait until November for the next film. Aaaaah.

So, my dear readers, we come to the point where in most stories one finds the "moral." Alas, this story, as it has no real names or substantive information, can hardly be expected suddenly to contain a moral. Thus, this is the end.