September 1, 2015.

Today is the day that Harry Potter fans have all been waiting- and dreading- for. Today is Harry Potter's eldest son, James Sirius Potter's first day of Hogwarts.

Today feels like a real magical flying car ride straight into the whomping willow, to say the least.

If you're like me, when you woke up today and saw J.K's tweet, you were feeling pretty anxious.

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It had snuck up on you so quickly, and now it was here. The day the Harry Potter timeline catches up to real time. Harry has kids? Harry's kids go to school now? He's not still a student at Hogwarts doing magical things with his ragtag gang of pals?? What?!

You just want to go back to the first time you read the books. You want to pretend Harry's still eleven years old and stuck in a cupboard somewhere.

But you know you can't, so you go through the necessary steps of grief... mainly turning to comfort food to process your feelings.

Then later on in the day, you hear that James has been placed in Gryffindor. You're so proud of him! J.K Rowling why do you keep feeding our nostalgia???

You keep trying to talk about this with your friends, and they keep telling you to get over it; it's just a book, it's not real. Maybe not to them, but who cares, they're just a bunch of Muggles anyway.

But you can't stop, because you know today is the day that we let Harry go as a Hogwarts student, and wish James good luck as he starts at the best school ever. It's the end of an era. We're so proud of young James, we can't stand it.

Harry Potter was one of the biggest parts of my childhood, I lived and breathed the magic of Hogwarts. There is a reason that Harry Potter continues to touch the lives of children and adults even today. Almost twenty years after the first book was published, Harry and his friends will continue to live on. If anyone saw young James Sirius Potter at Kings Cross today, give him a hug for me. Good luck, buddy!