Leaky's Daily Quotedown to Deathly Hallows: 69 Days
DH FilmSeptember 12, 2010, 01:01 AM
There are now only 69 days left until "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I" hits theaters! We are posting a quote from the first half of the book every day in celebration and to give us a chance to discuss and ponder the final book as it goes to film. Here is today's quote!
He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time, and was reduced to staring at the handwriting itself. She had made her "g"s the same way he did: He searched through the letter for every one of them, and each felt like a friendly little wave glimpsed from behind a veil. This letter was an incredible treasure, proof that Lily Potter had lived, really lived, that her warm hand had once moved across this parchment, tracing ink into these letters, these words, words about him, Harry, her son.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, "Kreacher's Tale"
Now that we all use electronic media like the Internet to do all our communicating, how many of us will leave behind actual letters on paper for our loved ones to remember us by? Something to think about before you forget how to communicate without IM shorthand, kids…