1) why are we obsessed with Potterverse? 2) stupid me to touch this topic

[cindersla]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince 
Winston)" <catlady at ...> wrote:
>
> Sarah Glaubman wrote in
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/33793>:
> 
> << I'm writing this post because I can't concentrate on my work
> because all I can think about is Harry Potter. >>
> 
> Oh, Sarah, I know the feeling! I don't know WHY this series had this
> effect on me; if I knew, I would have answered the question of The 
New
> Carol in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-
OTChatter/message/33728>
> of << Why do people treat them like real people, take the books so
> seriously, and talk about JKR like she's the devil instead of just a
> writer that wrote a few books.>>
> 
> I was almost as obsessed with The Lord of the Rings for a short time
> when I was 11, and then I was a Trekkie when I was 12 (all the girls
> in my class that year became Trekkies because the most popular girl
> was one), and only like 10 years ago, I got so into my frp character
> in the Viking campaign that I wrote her entire biography and started
> on the biographies of her ancestors. This shows that I had the 
ability
> to obsess over a fictional world and fictional people before I
> encountered the Potter oeuvre.
> 
> I play frpg once a month since 1985 with the same people and the 
same
> GM and a number of different campaigns, so I don't know why I'm
> passionately into our Viking campaign and would be perfectly content
> if the Japan and Space campaigns just vanished away. If I knew, that
> MIGHT be relevant to Carol Cinders's question.
>  
> As it is, all I can offer Cinders (Cinderella?) is that the Potter
> oeuvre is narrated by a friendly, humorous tone of voice, takes 
place
> in a world where whimsy is part of the natural order (such as punny
> names like Diagon Alley), and there are a lot of sexy men.

THank you. That was honest. I guess I've just never been that 
obsessed, though "almost" with Harry, but not to the extent it is 
here. But I did join this group so obviously, I do like them a lot.

As for the Cinders thing, yes, short for Cinderella. To remind myself 
that my dreams can still come true and never to give up hope. :)

Cinders (Carol)