marvin's fanfic

[Marvin Long]

No: HPFGUIDX 10148

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Marvin Long" <msl at f...> wrote:
>  
> > Er, or not.  This isn't the most positive of visions.
>  
> > Assuming HP survives until adulthood, deafeats big V, and doesn't 
> > lose his magic or destroy the wizarding world in the process,
he's 
> > going to be the biggest celebrity in the wizzing world
(hrm...maybe 
> > that's not such a good euphemism).
> 
> I've read several fanfics in which that stuff pretty much 
> happens. It happens while Harry is young and he eventually realizes 
> that he has to get his life back together.  It happens whle Harry
is 
> young and by the time he realizes he hates his gold-digger
wifeling, 
> it's too late to do anything about it. My own opinion is that 
> 18-30 yo Harry may like all the casual sex, but he doesn't like the 
> fashionable parties:  we haven't seen anything to suggest that he 
> likes small talk, meeting crowds of strangers, taking pains with
his 
> clothes...

Well, I was partly being tongue-in-cheek, but it's an obvious enough
possibility that I ought to have guessed others would have played with
it before now.  One thing about the clothes and parties, though...if
other people are going through all the effort (for the sake of getting
close to you) then the nice clothes and adoration are things that
people have been known to get used to

I think I saw someone mention in passing a "seclusion" theory or some
such.  Would this be a case in which Harry retires from life, a bit
like Frodo Baggins, too traumatized by his experience to want to be
very involved in the world anymore?