[HPforGrownups] Why Do You Read the HP Books?

[Tonya Minton]

No: HPFGUIDX 142747

On 11/9/05, ibchawz <ibchawz at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> SNIP sorry great post!!


 My question is: If you feel these
> books are so poorly written from a character, plot, and storyline
> development perspective, why do you read them?
>
> SNIP


 If
> Harry, as the main character, is really this bad a person, why do you
> read the books?
>
> ibchawz


:Now Tonya

 HI!! Big wave,
 I am not a literary expert but I do know when I read a book that I like and
I can pin point why I like it.
 Personally I was a bit slow to the HP band wagon, I got on board right
after POA. I started reading and I fell in love with the books because of
the place they take me too. It is WAY WAY far away from the real world. Some
people drink to get drunk, some people do drugs to escape....... Me, I admit
it, I read to escape. I have a wonderful life but after a long night of sick
baby (whom I love very much) and equally long days in the corporate world
running off to the WW is the best escape ever. Sure JKR may have made a few
little mistakes (IMO) and maybe OOP was really hard to read and reread
because I have meet people like Umbridge and I love Harry so it was hard to
watch him go through such a horrible year, again IMO, but I love it. I love
the underlying messages that JKR is sending me, every day I remember DDs
words "it's the choices you make that define who you are far more then your
abilities" HOW TRUE IS THAT?? Does that explain life?? YES for me and my
family and the way I was raised is all about making good choices. Do I
always make good choices...... NO..... but who does?? I strive everyday to
make good choices.... In OOP if I was Harry going through everything I would
not have been as confident and he was and I might have caved in just because
I had had enough of fighting with everyone on the truth. Does that make
sense??
 I also love the fact that JKR has changed the world with her books. Look at
all the kids who were out playing video games and are now reading (huge)
books. LOOK at us right now. Look at all these wonderful, smart, intelligent
people I get to spend time with that I would not have meet had it not been
for JKR and her Harry Potter. My life if richer because of JKR. TO ME-- I
have lots invested in the Harry Potter series, money, because I feel the
need to purchase 3 books every time they come out, time, wow if I billed all
the time that I have spent on reading and rereading and time spent on this
list, I would be VERY VERY rich.
 I also do not understand why people read the books if they do not find they
enjoy them. shrug-- I love them.
 Thanks for the GREAT question!! I really loved reading answers and thinking
about your questions myself.
 Tonya


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