Being a member of the Potterhead generation means many things. For many of us, it meant growing up with the series. It meant waiting anxiously for Hogwarts letters. It meant shouting nonsense Latin in the hope of casting a spell. And it meant loyalty.
When Rowling first wrote the opening words of Sorcerer's Stone, she began an odyssey that ended this past summer. We, the Potterheads, stayed by Harry's side, waiting for the end we knew was coming. Whether it took seven books or more, the end was surely coming.
"As Hagrid had said, what would come would come, and he would have to meet it when...