Reasons

Like almost every other Harry Potter fan out there, I would give anything to be able to sit down with J.K. Rowling and just pick her brain and ask her a million questions. There are many things that happen in the series that I don’t fully understand why they happened. After finishing the series out, I realized most of them, but there are a few that I am left to think about.

We see many things that have to happen for a reason. Harry had to stay with his horrible aunt and uncle to be safe. We don’t know this reason right away, and so for a while I was wondering why no one in the wizarding world would take him in and why he had to go back to them. He gets slightly possessed by Voldemort at times, but we come to find out that he uses this to his advantage in Deathly Hallows. Dumbledore lets far too many dangerous things go on so that Harry can build his strength and learn how to cope with things. There are many reasons for the many horrible and not-so-horrible things that go on in Harry’s life.

There are still a few things that I am unsure about, but I am completely positive that Jo put them in there for a reason and that someday, we will know those reasons.

This brings me around to another great author I know, actually He is the greatest author of all time. In His story too, everything happens for a reason. We may not be able to see what those are right away, we may never actually understand them, but we have to trust that He knows what He’s doing.

Just like when I was in the middle of the series and didn’t have all the answers yet, I am in the middle of my life now, and I don’t have all the answers. I don’t understand why certain things had to happen, or why loved ones had to be taken away. But maybe I don’t need to understand them just yet, maybe that is part of the journey, part of the read.

Jo wrote each and every good and bad thing that happened to Harry for a reason. To make him realize something, or to build his coping skills or his strength. Every trial I face is doing the same to me.

Someday though, I will get to meet the wonderful author of my life. I will pick His brain, find out all the answers to things I haven’t figured out, or maybe I won’t have to. Maybe I’ll just understand, and like Harry at King’s Cross I’ll be able to sit there and figure stuff out.

But it helps me to know that my life is somewhat mapped out for me. He knows what’s best and has put me on the track. It’s helps me to know that like Jo with Harry, my author is doing everything in order to shape and prepare me. Just like Jo loves Harry dearly, the author who created me loves me dearly as well. He loves me so much that at the end of my story I too will be able to say that all is well.

“Then the answer rose to his lips easily, without effort.”
“And again Harry understood without having to think.”

From Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows chapter 34:The Forest Again, and chapter 35: King’s Cross