[HPforGrownups] Re: Are we having fun?

[eowynn_24]

No: HPFGUIDX 80610



ellejir <eberte at vaeye.com> wrote: 
Wanda wrote:

> <snip> Are WE having fun anymore? Speaking for myself, I have to
> say no.  For me, the fun died on June 21, when OotP was released.
> And so much of the discussion of that  book, and speculation of
> what it will lead to, make me think that very few readers are
> having fun anymore.  <snip>


>>Elle (me):
I do not think that your view of OoP and the direction >>that the HP 
series is heading is universally held.  A fair number of >>people 
enjoyed reading OoP (myself included) and some people on >>the list 
have stated that it is their *favorite* book in the >>series. The 
things that you hate about OoP are the very things that >>may make it 
more interesting to another reader (i.e. the darker tone >>and Harry's 
more fragile emotional state.)  <snip>   So, in answer to >>your 
question Wanda, *yes* I am still having fun with the >>series.

Elle  (who reserves the right to change her mind about >>the above 
statement if JKR kills off either Harry or Hermione)    
  
Eowynn:

I feel that I should respond to this post since I was one of the ones that stated it was fun. I still stand by that statement, I am sorry Wanda that the books have seemed to lose their innocence, but isn't that what happens when we get older and more aware of the world? I do agree with Elle, their are a fair number of posters who love OOP and are still having fun. However, when I stated that it was still fun, I wasn't so much relating to the stories them selves as fun, but more to the anticipation the "tug-of-war" being fun, for us (the readers) and JKR. It has to be fun knowing how many lives you are touching, watching the excitement worldwide enfold with every book (and now movie). The storytelling is still fun, the stories are "true". Harry was saved to kill LV, we have known that it would get harder for him since SS/PS, and with how GoF ended how could anyone not realize how dark the series was going to get. It is the beginning of the end, the start of the great wizard battle,
 war is never a light time. JKR has a very creative way of brining the issues of the RW into the WW she has created. I do believe that this will be the darkest of the series, and that we can already see the light at the end of the "tunnel". Wanda, I won't ask you to reread OOP, I will ask that you not give up on JKR and the WW, I enjoy your posts and I would miss them.

Eowynn 







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