ADMIN: Comments on 'over-analysis' (was Re: JKR's play on words etc...)

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Carole wrote:
>>Insert long, hilarious post here<<

*cracks up* Oh, that is the sort of thing rainy Sunday mornings were 
made for!

As someone who plans on over analyzing things for a living someday 
(future college literature professor, hopefully), I have to say that 
sometimes I stop and wonder why we do it. Most of the time, this 
happens when one of my friends (usually one of those engineering 
major people) asks me where I come up with the @$#$% I say in English 
class (read: stuff I see in the stories that they don't). And it's 
because the characters become real people to us, with real motives 
and lives beyond what we get to see in the book.

The HP books are no exception to this. These are real people to us, 
and that's the real magic of reading (to be completely cliched). To 
some people, it might be overanalyzing; but we *know* Jo puts stuff 
in there on purpose -- and writers also put stuff in without meaning 
to. So it's interesting, and entertaining, and a great way to occupy 
ourselves until the next book.

Stacy

PS -- I did not mean to offend any engineering majors on this list! 
If you're on this list, then it probably means that you enjoy reading 
into things! My friends don't (tell me why you would take AP English 
if you hate to read and write? Ugh).