Opinions and a "real" HP fan.

[Dan Feeney]

<terryljames at h...> wrote:
> Come on, I know you guys can do better than that!  What's a real HP 
>fan to you?

Someone who is willing, before or after a long day at work, say, or 
looking after kids for hours on end, to read long posts composed of 
sentences with cadences oblique, and some split, as they say, 
infinitives, under the supposition that, somewhere, on some level, 
because the words appear in a list ostensibly devoted to HP, there is 
the possibility that the sentences or words will or may contain 
something even slightly interesting and related to, or not 
necessarily interesting but at least somehow related to, or perhaps 
only having the possibility of being forcibly made, by sheer will, to 
have something to say in relation to HP.

Someone who, in pretty much any discussion, finds relevant and 
illuminating passages from the 5 books, or general points. "Oh, 
Tarkovsky, yeah, it's funny but in some ways, reading Rowling is like 
experiencing a Tarkovsky film...." or "What colour do we want in the 
kitchen. Well, we can either take the Luna Lovegood approach or the 
Hermione Granger approach...." or "Yeah, great politician, except for 
that little drawback of having Karl Rove sticking out of the back of 
his head...."

I'm no good at this, but there's my two, yunno, things...

dan