[HPFGU-OTChatter] The Harry Potter Experience

[Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force)]

[Potioncat]:
| There are 7 HP books and 3 companian books written by JKR; 
| there are short pieces done for charity; there is the JKR web 
| site. We will have 8 Horcruxes, erm, I mean movies. Many 
| books have been published about HP. There are discusion 
| boards, news boards, fan-fic sites, RPGs and video games. 
| There are conventions, bookstore events, library events and 
| Bible studies. Fans have written papers, writen fiction, 
| created art, organized events, and managed web sites. Is there more?

[Lee]:
Hmm--don't forget that theme park that's supposed to be opening up
sometime...sounds like it will be fun!  And maybe I'll get there.

[Potioncat]:
| With all this HP stuff out there, what is your Harry Potter 
| experience? Is your base canon or movies? What have you 
| participated in or looked at? What defines the HP experience 
| for you? Do your friends and family have the same experience? 
| Do they tolerate your interest, or do you hide it? And how 
| are you managing now that the books are done?

[Lee]:
My base is definitely the books!  They were here first; the movies, to me,
are but pale shadows, some more pale than others.  I suppose if I had
started with the movies first, I might feel differently...I don't know.  But
it's the books!

I've been to a couple of bookstore opening but no conventions.  Too far
away, especially now that Art doesn't drive more than about town.

Fortunately, Art is a fan...probably not as crazy as I am in that I did
dress in a robe and such for the OOTP movie, but he doesn't discourage me.
I suppose that out of all of us I'm the most HP fan-type.  Art loves the
audiobooks, sometimes enjoys the movies, and doesn't discourage my buying
things like wands and pins, etc.  He's almost as good at quoting the books
as I am, even if he might not think so. <Grin>  As far as the rest of my
family, well, some may think I'm nutters, but that's okay.

And now that the books are over, I've settled back in the Pendragon books by
D.J. MacHale and back to Diane Duane's "Young Wizard" books.  I have no
problem moving from fandom to fandom; it keeps things interesting. <Grin>
But I would like to see, perhaps a couple years after the last movie, a
really *Good* miniseries for each book that excludes nothing from the books
and doesn't ad what I call "silliness" like the shrunken head on the Knight
bus in the POA movie and the badly done first task in the GOF movie.

Cheers,

Lee :-)