Bat Bogey Hex

[scoutmom21113]

No: HPFGUIDX 83610

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> Having read the thread on the psychoanalysis of COS, I am coming 
to 
> the conclusion that I have either led a very sheltered life or am 
> very naive (no suggestions please!). I have read the HP books for 
> pleasure; am I unusual, because I must admit that I do not reach 
the 
> end of a book and then start looking for hidden meanings and 
> innuendos? I do find great interest and amusement in the various 
> theories that are put forward as we read and re-read and compare 
> notes and think that, if JKR has worked all those ideas into her 
> plot, she must have spent years working out the inter-relationship 
of 
> topics! But even so, I still like to read a book as a piece of 
> narrative. Perhaps I should take a few days away from HPFGU and go 
> and lie down quietly.


No, you aren't the only one.  When it comes to stories like this, I 
prefer to think about the plot and leave the symbolism to others.  
As the father of psychoanalysis supposedly said, Sometimes a cigar 
is just a cigar.

Ravenclaw Bookworm