[HPforGrownups] Why do I love OOTP so much?

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 127881


Monday, April 18, 2005, 7:30:27 PM, bbkkyy55 wrote:

b> Why do I love this pathos so much?  Am I nuts?  Doesn't anyone
b> out there love OOTP the best?  

I'd say it's the one I've grown fondest of, partly for the reasons you
mention, but admittedly also because of the way it became an errily
uncanny parallel of my own life in the year the book came out:

-- My mom "went through the veil", and I felt like I was suddenly in
another "universe" (American Ed., top of page 866)

-- I finally discovered my vocational calling: Ridding computers of
"dark magic", i.e. repairing them.  (Harry --> Auror)

-- I discovered my inner leadership abilities as I became president of
my Toastmasters Club.  (Harry and the DA)

-- My first few months as president, I had to deal with the crisis of
a tyrannical sadist and his attempts to bully other Club members.
(Umbridge)

-- I began to take private singing lessons (as much a challenge for
me as Occulmency), which ended in short-term disaster, as a tragically
unfortunate gaffe on my part caused my first teacher to cast me off
with epic wrath.  (Snape's Worst Memory)

-- I made many new friends, and am filled with indescribable joy to
always "see them ranged there, on my side" (American Ed., p. 870)


So in short, OOP is the book where I found myself really identifying
with Harry, and so fills me with an especial affection for "Year 5".

-- 
Dave