Obsession

[ssturtevant at home.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 9520

In answer to Sue McGee's questions:

How many HP books have you given away?
As gifts? Or my own copies, that aren't allowed to mix with the other 
books on the shelf -they have their own spot, a place of honor on the 
dresser, where I can see them from my bed. None, yet.

Loaned?
I am trying to initiate the uninitiated, but it is difficult to let 
the books out of my sight.

If you go to parties?
I don't, I am home reading HP, of course. Perhaps I should put 
together an HP party... now there is an idea.

If you go to meetings, do you regularly survey the members to ask who 
has read HP?
I ask just about anyone standing still near me.

Posting a brilliant post on HP for Grownups and being flooded with 
laudatory responses?
Of course.

Do you fantasize about being in the movie?
No-see next question

Are your fantasies about being at Hogwarts and hanging out with the 
younger crowd -or teaching?
Oh, to be at Hogwarts! I keep dreaming it is real place, because the 
Muggle world is simply not for me. Maybe my owl got waylaid to 
California when I was eleven. Or maybe it is being a Pisces, in the 
world but not quite of it.

Winning Jeopardy's HP questions and receiving $50,000?
Cash and HP Trivia equals heaven

Do you think about raising dragons with Hagrid?
No, HP world dragons are a little too unfriendly for my tastes. I 
like the dragons on Pern better.

Do you muse about comforting Lupin or Black in their loneliness?
The introduction of Black in PoA about killed me, dark brooding types 
always appeal to me. It is as if JKR read my mind about creating a 
grown-up character for me to fantasize about. 

The true test of HP obsessiveness is how much psychic space occupying?
I agree. And by this standard, I am obsessed. I have always enjoyed 
getting lost in book-worlds. I have major depression (have since I 
was fifteen) and this world hurts me on a daily basis. I need the 
magic of my imagination and a good story to distract me at some point 
in each day. I find myself reading and re-reading, savoring the 
escape that comes to me page by page in the HP books. It is a rare 
gift to create a world that feels as real(and vastly preferable) as 
this one -JKR has done this and for that I am eternally grateful.

OT- 
I tend to be a bit presicent (sp?) as well. It is my gift -it is my 
curse. (Frank Black, Millenium) In a dream I saw the conversation my 
husband and I had when he told me he didn't love me, found out about 
his girlfriend's pregnancy in a dream. I am constantly buffeted by 
feelings and impressions about people and places and events that come 
through as fuzzy interpretations. It is exhausting, and it makes me 
distance myself from others whenever possible (my that sounded like 
Trelawney, sorry).

Sara