Tommorrow Will Be Kinder

Tomorrow Will Be Kinder 

This is an image I found on Pinterest from someone else on Facebook.

 When I first posted it, I wrote something below it. "The Draco one is the saddest." And it probably is. Draco's story is heartbreaking, and relatable, and amazing. He's an interesting character because he's not all good, and he's not all bad. He makes hard choices, and screws up, and fights for what he believes in, and loses terribly. He's a tragic character, and I love it.

But now that I look at it again, I think mostly of Harry's.
I love when I love a side character more than the main character. I feel like they get so much love, and I love to love the underdog. But here, it's not about how much I love Harry, which is debatable.

It's about Harry's reaction.
The scream when Sirius dies. The silent scream. The pain unheard, but certainly felt.
As a cinema student, I fully understand why they did this. And I love it. I (hope I) would have made the same choice. I think they did that because the silent scream is so powerful. It is so much more tragic than Draco even. Harry's loss is something that not everyone can relate to, but this way, we see it, we feel it. It puts it at the perfect distance for every single person to feel it, regardless of each audience member's experiences.

I love that scream.

It's a strange thing to love. That scream, and just that image embody everything that is truly heartbreaking about the Harry Potter book, and there is plenty. It is so full of pain and tragedy and loss.

But maybe I don't love that image because of that. Maybe I love it because of the words over this image set. "Tomorrow Will Be Kinder"

I don't have any idea how I feel about that. I just know that it evokes something powerful in me. Something that makes me want to Cry and Scream at the sky. Make it rage and quake. To demand that tomorrow is not the only thing that will be kinder, that today will be kinder too. That we can't keep putting off things we feel because we don't know what to do about it now. Like this, I don't know what to write, so I just keep writing, and I hope that somehow it matters, even if it's just for me. But maybe I can make tomorrow a little bit kinder. And if I'm lucky, maybe I can make that change today.

PS Sorry it's not Tuesday.