Self-contained worlds (was The proximity of the Potterverse)

[annemehr]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Dan Feeney" <dark30 at v...> 
wrote:

<snip extremely compelling post to get to a parenthetical remark:>

>(Sometimes, I think, some of us think that we are 
> participating in his liberation from helplessness just by reading 
the 
> books! Isn't that odd, that we feel that way, or that I should 
think 
> that we think this way?)

Annemehr:
I think you hit the nail right on the head.  It *does* feel 
extremely important that I read these books, and not just because I 
want to find out what happens next.  Hmmm...
> 
> This has become a ramble, sorry, and almost main list stuff. The 
> point was, I agree that what Rowling has done is unique - I was 
just 
> trying to parse WHY and HOW it is unique. Wherever Rowling was at 
the 
> time she had her vision, wherever she was mentally, that is, the 
> train became a symbol. Hogwarts is her way out, and Harry's. 
> 
> More some other time.
> 
> dan

Keep parsing, please!  This is as good a time as any to say that I 
feel much the same resonance with the books as you seem to, and I 
have been really interested in your posts.  I probably won't reply 
to many because I can't add anything to them, but I am reading!

Annemehr
hoping this "me too" post is okay for OTC,
and thinking that Hogwarts does seem to be *my* way out, too -- 
could that be why I want Harry to live in the end?