#RIP #ALANRICKMAN

RIP #AlanRickman I will never miss you...
because you will be here in my heart…
#ALWAYS!

Shit Man it hurts!!!

I am a grown up working professional, married into a typical Indian, Marathi household, mother of a eight month old… and blah blah blah Indian lady. But all this, I am unashamed to admit, that is hurts... Big Time! It does not come in my way of loving the characters I have grown up with me. They are more real to me than the people around me. I have known them much better than the family and friends I have had. (Actually not friends… I love my friends and that is the same I love these characters.)

It is just another person dead and gone to many, but me being a person who has grown up reading and watching Harry Potter, living those characters, being one with them, I feel perturbed to the normalcy I see among everyone who haven’t seen what #AlanRickman was and how he brought #Professor #Severus #Snape to be the badass and the hero.

The news came out yesterday, and I tried to be as normal as possible. Though I am going about my daily business as usual, even for a moment I am unable to forget that #AlanRickman has greeted death as an old friend and walked with him to the next best adventure!

I have only seen two people leave me and go, from this #Muggle World even if I am grown up. My grandfather and my grandmother and have known loss only in 2012. Yes, many many losses have been a part of my life, as is for all the #Potterheads, right from #Dobby to #Fred, to #Lupin&Tonks, #Sirius everyone…. But when the news of #AlanRickman hit me, the loss was something different.

Of course when a family members or friends from the #MuggleWorld pass on to their next adventure, we all gather and mourn as a family, but when someone like Alan is gone, the whole potterverse is devastated and mourning in the Muggle world. I am unable to show my grief to people around me who are oblivious to the potterworld. To the prof. Snape who scared the hell out of everyone with just one look – As I sit and mourn for this loss, people around me ask me, whats wrong, or whats going in your mind and I hear #PeopleWillThinkYouAreUPTOSOMETHING.

Ahh that voice, I will never forget that voice when I first heard the line, #ThereWillBeNoFoolishWandWavingOrSillyIncantationsInThisClass, the deep voice that could freeze you is gone behind the #Veil. 

But be sure that his presence in the world through the movies, through our hearts will be there, after all, some stories never leave us. He will be there, after any number of years, after any span of time… ALWAYS!

Kiran V Pandit

#APotterHead