I can relate. I became fairly disenchanted with Harry Potter after completing the seventh book but can feel the pangs eating at me knowing the final movie has indeed arrived.

And although I don't want anything to do with public eye (nor massive amounts of money), I would love, some day, to have my characters resound with people as her's has, too. Perhaps not to the same overwhelming degree but enough to know I've touched a bit would be grand.

Hope you enjoy the film and the experience when you see it! I've been (finally) catching up with Namesake and I must say, I do think you'll find people (if they haven't become so already) quite attached to it in due time. And I hope I get to join them, too!