I remember first discovering HarryPotter when the first movie, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was
released in the cinema and I wasn’t totally hooked. I don’t know what convinced
me to pick up the book and become so attached to the characters and so obsessed
with the storyline that I read all seven books and watched all eight movies. I
think I most enjoyed the level of escapism it brought me, leaving this challenging
and upsetting world for one that was so far removed from reality and yet so realistic,
allowed for the opportunity to forget – even just for the length of one page –
my own difficulties.
I didn’t bother with any of the
spin-off books and didn’t watch Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them until
Christmas 2018! I actually watched the Crimes of Grindelwald (the second in the
Fantastic Beasts series) first with my friend and when I didn’t have the same
dramatic reactions as she had it became apparent that I really needed to watch
the first to understand the importance of the second a bit better! I then
bought the Crimes of Grindelwald screenplay and that really helped my
understanding so much so that I bought the movie and watched it numerous times.
It was on one of these most recent times that I thought maybe I could share with
you all some quotes from it that – even taken out of context - are relevant to
mental health…
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