The willing suspension of disbelief

[sistermagpie]

> Potioncat:
> For me it was before DD even showed up, when Harry was even able to 
> string words into a sentence in spite of his treatment by the 
> Dursleys. I wasn't able to do that on my first attempt at HP, but 
> once I did at a second attempt, I enjoyed the ride. 
> 
> I can't think of any other place in the HP saga that's jerked me out 
> of the disbelief. Now, there have been Flints, or there have been 
> disappointments. But I can't think of anything that just seem out-of-
> the-question given the world we're reading about.

Magpie:
Yeah, sometimes you can't control it. Some people maybe just don't 
like fantasy at all, another person might have suspended their belief 
for lots of things but then unexpectedly gets tripped up on something 
relatively small. But once it happens, it can be hard to get over it.

But of course the other things the author is doing is going to help. I 
read a blog that's reading through the Left Behind books, and it's 
hilarious how little attention the authors pay to any kind of 
realistic world at all--and yet I've had people say to me "I think 
that's really the way it's going to happen."

-m