Color me courtney brother death10/10/2023 ![]() He knew Harry Potter better than anything else, and it was nice to let him take the lead on something and see how confident he was when he spoke to it. I’ll be honest, I knew the answer to most of questions I asked, but I just liked to talk to him about it. On October 25th I decided to begin rereading the series from book 1 through 7 and the best part was being able to call Trent 6 or 7 times a day to ask him random questions or debate theories, especially about how the original series would relate to the upcoming new Fantastic Beasts Crimes of Grindelwald. Here are some VERY OLD photos from my pervious Harry Potter parties – can you spot Paris? Some of my favorite memories with my brother are intertwined to this series, and he understood the world more than anyone else I’ve ever known. Then, staying up till midnight in our robes to get the new book first only to rush home and stay up reading it, heading to midnight premiers for the films and eventually hosting dinner parties and dressing up with our friends. We were fortunate enough to grow up in the potter generation: picking up the first few books from the scholastic book fair, listening to the book on tap (yep, a literal cassette tape) on our drive to school and watching the classroom parents fight over if the book should be banned all before we were Hogwarts aged. He promised that he would use that influence to cast me as Hermoine and said I was a shoe in with my curly hair – lucky for Daniel Radcliffe, we never made it to London to audition. When the films were announced, Trent, being about the right age, spent a summer practicing his British accent in the hopes that he would be cast as Harry. It was always his thing, but I like to think we shared it. He read most of the Harry Potter books in their original British form before they were released in the US at a young ague maybe 6 or 7 and to this day was the biggest potterhead I knew. He also wrote quite a bit, I’ll estimate 2 hours by hand every day – very Alexander Hamilton of him now that I think about it. My brother, Trent was one of the most well read people I knew.
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