[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Daniel. *sigh*

[Malia Kawaguchi]

On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, shelaghcol wrote:

> Shelagh
> rather in love with a 50-year-old Hobbit being portrayed by an 18-20 
> year-old young man. ;->

He's 20.  My crush on him is the thing that makes me sane.  Although I 
still feel like a cradle robber.  :)

No, I understand fandom.  When I was 12 years old (many many moons ago) my 
three best friends and I were so into Lord of the Rings that we pooled 
money and purchased real gold and gem rings for each other (a gold band 
for the only boy and the 3 elven rings for the three girls).  I think I 
dated Johnathon more because we called him Frodo than for any personal 
qualities he actually had.

This is different.  I very much liked the books before the movie, but my 
sister was the one obsessed with the Harry Potter shrine where she kept 
her books and posters and Scholastic brand paraphenelia.  Then the first 
time I saw the poster book for the movie, I felt something.  Now I have 
puzzles, posters, yahoo.groups, horrible magazines for kids that don't 
even get elementary facts right, and my sister calling me "overboard."  

Oh, and I have the lego chamber of the keys scene, because I could no 
longer stand to not own the lego Harry.  (I'm giving the rest of the set 
to my husband's little brother, a Harry fan who collects legos, but I've 
told him he has to get his own Harry.)

I thought it would fade after LOTR came out, but it seems to have only 
made things worse.  Now I insist on seeing the movies closer and closer 
together so I can compare and contrast my reacions to each leading 
man/boy.  It's all just so very wrong.  I haven't had a completely free 
day to watch them both on the same day, but I'm sure that is coming, and 
that right soon.

But I'm really a very normal person.  No, really.  Hopefully they'll let 
me out of this lovely self-hugging coat soon so I can shake hands all 
around and introduce myself properly.

-Malia