[HPforGrownups] Re: Do Grown-Up HP Fans Favor PoA & GoF over PS/SS and CoS?

[srsiriusblack at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 49609

In a message dated 11/01/2003 01:51:50 Eastern Standard Time, 
annemehr at yahoo.com writes:


> One last thing to add, if I can manage to describe it, is how I take 
> the _goodness_ of the books with me into the real world.  They seem to 
> stay with me somehow as I face RL troubles and conflicts.  They have 
> been for me a great antidote against discouragement and bitterness I 
> could have succumbed to.  It is not in Dumbledore's words that I find 
> this; they just point it out.  It is in Harry's actions that I find 
> this encouragement -- in his empathy, his readiness to forgive, and 
> his active concern for the people around him.  Of course he's not 
> perfect, but if he was, then his virtues would not shine out for me as 
> well as they do.  When I am in a rough spot in life, I would like to 
> be that good.  And this comes to me, one way or another, in *any* of 
> the books.
> 

I completely agree with you. Actually, it's funny, a few weeks ago my sweetie 
and I were driving over a bay-bridge tunnel thing on the east coast of the 
US, and as I am horrified by bridges and tunnels and go into severe panic 
attacks, he looked at me and said, "HOw on earth are you going to play 
Quidditch if you can't go over this bridge with your eyes open?" Suddenly, I 
was madly empowered
(Ok, so maybe I *really* am weird)

But it is little things within the books that we carry off with ourselves. 
And, there is so much wisdom within the books... some of which we may already 
know, some of which we have learnt from them, and some of which we may have 
been reminded of in the journeys.

I for one see the goodness and virtues that I want to have all the time in my 
life in the characters.. it's a nice way to be reminded really.

-Snuffles
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty 
recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the 
dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with 
open eyes, to make it possible. This I did."  T.E. Lawrence- Seven Pillars of 
Wisdom


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