{"id":7169,"date":"2016-01-15T00:22:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T04:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=7169"},"modified":"2016-01-15T00:22:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T04:22:09","slug":"saying-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2016\/01\/15\/saying-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"Saying Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although there\u2019s many things that I could write about this week for my post, and I went through all of them in my head, trust me, my heart wasn’t in any of them. Why? Because today, I feel like I lost a friend.<\/span><\/p>\n

For those of you that don\u2019t know, Alan Rickman passed away today at the age of 69. If you don\u2019t know Alan Rickman, though I will be very surprised if you don\u2019t, he is known for his iconic roles in Die Hard, Love Actually, Robin Hood<\/em> (yes, the terrible one with Kevin Costner), and, the one closest to my heart, Severus Snape in all of the Harry Potter movies.<\/span><\/p>\n

When I was younger and watching Harry Potter for the first time, I had no idea who Alan Rickman was. But when I read the books, I realized that he was the embodiment of Snape, straight down to the hair and nose. He was just menacing, and you knew it, and yet for all his one-dimensionality, you knew Snape wasn\u2019t all bad. That was Alan Rickman, and his brilliant acting.<\/span><\/p>\n

Only when I got older did I realize this, though, and the respect he was given. I learned about Dame Maggie Smith, and I looked up to these figures, as I was dreaming of becoming an actor, and realizing that the roles these people played were the ones I wanted to play. I respected them, and I\u2019d even say I loved them.<\/span><\/p>\n

I still remember when I went and saw the last Harry Potter movie at midnight. It was the end of an era for me, and for millions of other teenagers. But I didn\u2019t cry about it, because while it was an end, I knew the books and the movies would always be there for me, just as they had in the past. I knew I might cry during the movie, but not for that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, when I saw Snape curled around Lily, crying himself, unable to face the truth, I started crying as well. I\u2019m not even that big of a fan of Snape, but that loss, that pain – you could see it all. And that was Rickman. That was what he made people felt. <\/span><\/p>\n

There comes a time when you have to let go of something when you\u2019re in a fandom. That\u2019s what happens when you become a fan of something. You watch it, you read it, you hold it dear, and when it\u2019s gone, you mourn it. And today, we mourn Alan Rickman. <\/span><\/p>\n

Rest in Peace, Alan. Always.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although there\u2019s many things that I could write about this week for my post, and I went through all of them in my head, trust me, my heart wasn’t in any of them. Why? Because today, I feel like I lost a friend. For those of you that don\u2019t know, Alan Rickman passed away today […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[556,174,919,198,920],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7171,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169\/revisions\/7171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}