Harry Potter Burn-Out

[rodeodangerqueen at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 22832

The fact that you are so concerned about your "burnout" shows that 
you still care about Harry Potter and his world.  If you really 
didn't care, you wouldn't have bothered to write your post.  Find 
some totally non-related Harry Potter things to read (i.e. don't even 
get near "remote but related" things like the New Age section of the 
bookstore)....read adult fiction...whether they are the current best-
sellers...paperback romances...or the "literary classics" that were 
part of required reading in secondary school (grades 6-12) English 
classes (or in my case...as a graduate English student...they still 
ARE required reading!).  I really think this will just pass, but it 
might take waiting until Book 5, so be patient.  Good luck. :)

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., anitaskeeter at y... wrote:
> Er.
> So I've never posted anything before...um...well, this is off-
topic, 
> and I tried to find out where to post it but I kinda got lost in 
> jargon and started getting scared and whimpery and so maybe someone 
> can have mercy on my poor tired little brain and tell me in 
> monosyllabic words where I should go from now on?
> 
> What a disclaimer. I should just shut up now, as my actual question 
> will never top the drama of that first paragraph.
> 
> Anyway, um...a very interesting thing happened when I came home 
from 
> school a few months ago. I pulled out my cherished GoF (I didn't 
take 
> it to school, I figured it would probably scare my roommates that I 
> could quote HP chapters) and began to read...and I found myself 
> becoming incredibly bored after ten minutes.
> 
> What the heck, man?
> 
> And so I began to skim through all my HP books; picking out choice 
> Snape scenes and poring over Percy (yay!) snippets and things. I 
> found that was all I could handle. I can't read an entire chapter 
at 
> a time, when I used to read and reread the books for hours. It's 
very 
> distressing. I actually have to resort to LIFE to entertain me. 
> Whoever heard of such a thing? *frowns* 
> 
> And so my kvestion is this. Has anyone ever suffered from symptoms 
> such as these before, and if so, how does one overcome this 
disease? 
> 
> Please, help me before my disinterestedness spirals out of control! 
> Agh! Oh, the humanity!
> 
> Anita Skeeter
> (who is, again, very sorry for inconveniencing you all by making 
you 
> skim over her first post)