[HPforGrownups] Harry Withdrawl

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No: HPFGUIDX 3356




> So, a couple of days ago, I finished GoF, completing my HP reading. I had
been
> reading HP for two glourious weeks, completing all four books in that
time. Now, I
> have a sense of feeling...like that feeling you get after a major event--a
holiday
> or something. I have what I call Readers Block, I just can't find anything
to read
> that excites me like HP has for the last 2 weeks. I'm trying to finish
"The
> Godfather" for the second time (I like reading books over and over), but
it just
> doesn't interest me. So now, I'm thinking of reading the HP books--over
again! Has
> anyone else does this before? I want to know that I'm not completley
crazy.

I think all of us on this list has had exactly that experience which is one
reason we sit here night after night reading all these crazy posts.  Its
also the reason some of us turn to fanfiction. There are some very good
fanfiction stories out there that are book length and maintain the integrity
of the characters.  Not to bore the folks who have been on this list a long
time, but...

go to this link and you will find enough interesting HP derived fanfiction
stories to keep you busy at least another couple of weeks.  Its the Home of
Paradigm of Uncertainty (referred to here as PoU...if you've seen that and
wondered) and the Draco series (Draco Dormiens and Draco Sinister) and...yes
(I can't resist a shameless plug) A Sirius Affair (a prequel to PoU).

These stories are providing a lot of us with our HP reading fixes until book
5....hope you like them

http://www.egroups.com/group/ParadigmOfUncertainty

its another egroup, but you don't have to belong to the group to read the
stories...go to the files section and each story has its own folder.

once you've exhausted that you can venture on to fanfiction.net that has
over 8000 HP derived fanfiction stories (a lot of them are lousy...but there
are some gems)  We'll have a FAQ on fanfiction one of these days (no rush
guys...I'm not done mine yet either)....

carole