[HPforGrownups] Hogwarts a nice place? (Was Re: The Movie vs. JKR?)

[Sara Dockery]

No: HPFGUIDX 100368

"snow15145" wrote:

> Hogwarts was like a comfortable old shoe; it fit well. 
> I can understand this feeling, because that is how I feel about 
> the Books.  No matter what is going on in my life reading Harry 
> Potter just makes me happy, however...

dan <darkthirty at shaw.ca> wrote:
> How many of us, from the books, have the impression that Hogwarts 
> is a nice place, or tranquil? 

<huge snip of alot of great points>


I really liked the new look of Hogwarts, it looks much more like what I'd always pictured.  And Dan said this better than I will, but even in PS Hogwarts is a wonderful magical place, but it is a little scary and definately difficult to navigate.  There are so many little pitfalls, like "doors that wouldn't open unless you asked politely, or tickled them in exactly the right place, and doors that weren't really doors at all, but solid walls just pretending." (SS American 131-132).  And that's just in the first book!  

Yoda (Who really thinks that the reason she loves the books so much is that she was reading POA for the first time when her husband proposed)