Among the most famous children's book writer today, is a British woman named Joanne Kathleen Rowling. This lady, in my opinion, is one of the best storytellers of our time. She is the one who has brought us an amazing world of wizards and spells as she told the extraordinary life of a boy wizard named Harry Potter.

As with many adults, it took a child to bring Ms. Rowling's work to my attention.

I had just finished college and was tutoring some brats, when one of the brats, told me in an excited voice about a child in a school where learning the magic was the agenda. At that time, while the little girl smiled at me, I nodded head condescendingly and told her to continue studying for tomorrow's spelling test.

I am embarrassed to say I was still an ignorant muggle, bu I know Hermione would have forgiven my snobbery. A few months later, one of my childhood friends enthusiastically gave me a book while muttering things like animated "assistant", "orphan", "spells" and "Magic". I took the book just to stop his babbling.

I read the book that same night. And boy, I was surprised! Stunned! When I read the first page, I was hooked. I swallowed the book in one day. And when I reached the last page, I smiled as if I had been placed under a spell... I loved both teachers and the students of Hogwarts, I so wanted to hug Hagrid, and I was absolutely astonished the school's director. And I was so involved in the story that I thought I would see a real fire dragon flying through my window that night.

Oh, yes, I forgot to mention that the first book in the series that I read was the "fourth book." WNot reading the series in the correct sequence, diminished none of its greatness to me. And years after my first glimpse of Harry's world, the memory of it, still has the power to make me laugh like a child small. Magic, spells, dragons, goblins, vampires, black mages, magic wands and flying brooms... What more could anyone want? And now, between 'The Journey to Trad Witchcraft by Adrian Eglinton' and The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, I still find myself browsing through the brilliant masterpieces of Rowling's. Well, real or not, I'm glad I met up with the magical world of Harry Potter, where the images are like movies without sound and people could travel with the touch of a smelly old boot.

Alice Jones is an expert on witchcraft and the director of popular blog WitchCraftSecretsOnline.Com. She provides honest reviews of the books on witchcraft and more. Check out her blog for more info!

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