What We Were Made For: Gratitude For Normal
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:date: 2017-06-08T17:07:40
:category: faith
:tags: harryPotter, review, blogComment

(unfortunately, FanFiction.net allows only one review per
chapter, so I was not able to add this to my review of
`chapter 90`_ of The Missing Moments by Ash-and-Vine).

When I was something like fourteen I was in hospital for surgery
which made me for a week unable to move almost at all (surgery
was at my groin, and it seemed like all muscles in my body were
somehow connected). Biggest than physical pain (there was some)
was pain of being immobile. I was completely consumed whole week
with incredible jealousy of everybody including nurses who could
walk. It was lovely sunny May, flowers were blossoming outside of
windows of my hospital room, and I could just lie down on my bad
watching ceiling.

When after a week or so of such lying in the bed, I was able to
get myself to loo, it was one of the most exciting moments of my
life (birth of my first-born is in the similar category). When
couple of days later I could walk and I was released from the
hospital, I was so excited and grateful for just ability to walk
that I have almost ripped my stitches by walking over seven
kilometres home over whole Prague. This sense of gratitude never
left me completely and I believe it was one of the core impulses
which lead me later to coming to Christ.

I guess that's something similar what Hermione felt in this
chapter, and I hope that everybody who reads it experienced
something at least as awesome (with stress on the root “awe”).

Let me finish with what I wrote as my original review of the 
chapter:

    My brother complained about HP that ends so poorly in his 
    opinion: the superhero saves the world and then he just has 
    family, kids and he is just an official in the Ministry 
    (well, a policeman, but still)? What kind of superhero he is?

    My answer was that he is exactly the hero I like, and I am 
    quite sure the hero JKR wanted to have.
    
Thank you for writing this chapter so beautiful.

.. _`chapter 90`:
    https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12377803/90/The-Missing-Moments