Most Sincerely Yours..

Dearest Friend,

Hope this letter finds you and finds you well. I have not heard from you lately! Just wanted to let you know that I still am awestruck by you and care a lot for you.

I remember most vividly the lazy winter afternoon when this narrative starts. Little was known then that the quaint and quite, otherwise insignificant after hours of the dull overcast day, will go on to gift me with such a treasure, destined to mold my thoughts and create a virtual escapade.

I had gone on a visit with my family, to my relatives’ house in a town, situated discreetly amongst the gloomy blackish grim of the Eastern coalfields. A splendid lunch had just been over, driving the other members of my family to a leisurely siesta. I, not having have much to contribute to an interesting passage of the noontime, my time was sluggishly spending itself, in one of the rooms upstairs. I caressed my child to sleep, gazing out of the window into the distant haze of the pre-dusk. Darkness would descend in an hour or so. My mind freely roamed about in the aloof skyline shaped by the surrounding plateaus, as I was unmindfully humming some soulful melody from the past. A crow cawed indefatigably somewhere in the nearby fields, complaining of the dismal onset of the early winters; its cries intermittently broken by the lethargic whimpers of a solitary sleepy household cat relaxing on a nearby brick wall. Barring these two, it seemed the world had stopped, and I was the only human awake in this forsaken neighborhood.

This was the time when I glanced into the obscure little attic, sitting at the end of a long winding staircase going up. Curious, and most importantly, completely devoid of any other more interesting option at hand, I pried open the rusty door. And that’s when I first saw your photo, dear friend, and life was no longer the same. However, it was a very late union, yet as the saying truly goes – better late then never!

I had heard a lot about you, but never got to interact with you even once in my life. In these lonely god-forsaken hours of the afternoon, as I went on to freely mingle with you, you gave me the most romantic and magical moments I experienced ever! Your loving and caring presence transported me to the depths of concealed treasures not known to all, a world of illusions, a world of imaginations, filled with abstract thoughts, ideas and visions. With you always around now, I do not know how my following afternoons, evenings, nights and next few months passed. Only, and only you, existed with all your brilliance, and nothing else mattered much.

You shrouded all my sanity; you took me through the sweetest pangs of a long vanished and magically romantic path. The journey with you into your life and world had swept me off my feet once and forever, and nothing outside that realm, seemed meaningful anymore. I had always been overwhelmed by your traditions, by the magnificence you had to offer to me, by the societies you were surrounded by. You introduced me to your people, and connected my soul and each breath to your neighborhoods.

In this way, with every moment that passed in your loving care, each of your friends, acquaintances, camaraderie and enemies had become my own. I felt lost and detached once away from you, and always silently whined on what happened next, and how to take our companionship forward without any external conflicts. I had to take out time of my busy schedule, sometimes thought of skipping daily routines, just to spend more and more time with you. A single session of communication with you in that blessed afternoon, had completely changed me and my priorities!

There were days, when overloaded with work, I did not get the time to lose myself unto you, but you had always been in my thoughts. This alliance between us was overpowering me, and I would not tolerate the presence of anybody around, when I was with you. Your delights, troubles, resentments, anguishes, apprehensions and realizations were all my own, and I really longed to be lost with you.

I craved for that one letter from you, inviting me to your place. I yearned for a particular train to catch, uniting us. I wearily trudged along imaginary paths to reach that one destination, where you would receive me. However, that letter never arrived, the train never departed, and the destination never reached. I still wait for that one instant, when all of this could come true, but alas!

Then one day the inevitable happened. Though I never wanted our inseparability to terminate, but then, nobody has ever succeeded against battles with “time” which is the toughest and the rudest ruler of all things, tangible and intangible. All good things end, all good people leave. So did you. You were not anymore an active part of my life, and you turned into a memory, may be one of the strongest and the fondest ones, very easy to approach but impossible to part with.

I felt so desperately hopeless and alone at your absence; life around seemed to emerge into the deep gorges of oblivion. As days passed by, “time” again, the ultimate healer, helped me to get over you. You and your world, though nonexistent in reality, became an intimate source of virtual happiness to me, the undying fragrances of which linger on to this day!

One last word dear friend - I believe our affairs are neither secret nor anything personal. There are masses of readers like me whose imaginary worlds revolve around the magical dominions created by the great Ms. J.K Rowling. Somewhere in all our minds’ palaces, is your safe abode, dear Madam; and we frequently meet your immortal creations there, trying to relive the moments spent together. The Harry Potter legacy will safely be passed on the next-gen, and also treasured in our hearts..Always!!

All you magical wonderful people and their immortal creator - Stay happy, stay blessed.

Thanks a lot for filling our worlds with the innocent enchanted romanticism, once again, since the bygone days..filled with the most cherished simplicity and purity of our childhoods!

I remain,

Most sincerely yours,

An Admirer.