[HPforGrownups] Re: Why now?

[squeakinby]

No: HPFGUIDX 110819

potioncat wrote:

>But for me OoP was almost ruined by the forewarning that someone 
>would die.  In the first place I rushed through it so that no one 
>would spoil it for me.  In the second place, once it was over, I 
>felt exploited.  Someone will die: is it the Weasley kids? Arthur? 
>Hagrid? McGonagal... oh, just Sirius... (sorry, but that was my 
>reaction.)
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I'm not sure I felt exploited but my reaction was just the same.  Oh 
Sirius dies?  Oh well.

>I realised that if I started the book without knowing that a death 
>was an important part of it, I wouldn't have felt that way.
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I agree.  Once a secret is learned it's not a big deal.

Equate it with people who seek the mystery of life, some magic element.  
For Christians, having Jesus die and come back should be magic aplenty!  
But since it's so obvious, it becomes a commonplace thing.  The magic's 
gone.

>But maybe, just maybe, I should find a book of Churchill speeches.
>Potioncat
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And oddly enough, I spent most of this morning trying to find a speech 
of Churchill's in which he railed against the evils of Nazism long 
before the rest of the world understood the threat.

Jem