What's fun about the HPs? (was: Request for new topics)

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 152482

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
characterization is one of JKR's skills. Most of
> her characters are memorable and consistent. Snape, love him or 
hate him, is "a gift of a character" that most of us won't soon 
forget. Ron and Hermione, despite their flaws, are very human and 
recognizable characters. Neville is just lovable, and his growth 
from the first book to the fifth (we don't see much of him in the 
sixth) is admirable. (snip)> 
> I can't speak for anyone else, but if I come back after the seventh
> book, satisfied that she's given a plausible explanation for Snape 
and has not violated what I consider to be the moral integrity of her
> world by having Harry kill Voldemort with an Unforgiveable Curse, 
it will be to return to the company of people I love, despite all the
> faults and frailities that make them so real, to laugh and cry with
> them, to share their world, which for all its violence and 
prejudice and inadequate lighting, is in many ways a more 
interesting place than the mundane world I live in, with its unpaid 
bills and computer problems and irascible, demanding, semiliterate 
clients.
> 
> I think that's the answer, really. I love the world that JKR 
created, and like Harry, I'd rather be at Hogwarts than at Privet 
Drive. It's a magical world, and when I read the books or think 
about the characters, I believe in it and them, "the willing 
suspension of disbelief that constitues poetic faith."
> 

Tonks:
I agree that JKR has made the world and the people in it so very 
real. I love them, most of them.

As to sexy Snape:
I have always been in love with DD. But after seeing movie Snape I 
have that image of Snape now when I read the books. So I lust after 
Snape, but still my heart belongs to DD.  My friends told me from 
the beginning that DD was too old for me, and occasionally they 
remind me that he is a fictional character.

Now that the books are darker they are not as much fun as in the 
beginning. And we are now more aware of the problems of the WW 
world. I liked the world better in the first couple of books. There 
has always been a longing in my heart to be there, but now that DD 
is gone, maybe not so much. I longed to be with DD and Hagrid, and 
Molly who I would hope would be a very good friend. Luna reminds me 
of someone I once knew. We need a few Luna's in the world, to keep 
it fun. I would even like the ugly Snape of the books, maybe. I 
would respect his sarcastic dark humor. I love the mysterious, 
mystical type of world outside of what the ordinary Muggle can see 
or care about. I love that "otherness" about the place. I like the 
idea of having powers over the natural world and over myself that 
Muggles don't have.

I never thought about the conveniences that the Muggle world has to 
offer that I would miss in the WW. So now that I have thought about 
it, it would be nice to live in the Muggle world, but secretly be a 
Witch/Wizard.

I haven't really thought about it until now. But it does seem that 
as the books are getting more and more like the evils of our own 
world, it doesn't matter which world you live in
  "life is hell and 
then you die".  But like Luna, if I were in the WW, I think it would 
be like having friends. People there don't seem to move as much as 
Muggles do, so friends stay with you, there is community. I would 
like that. 

I know that it is crazy to say this, but it is like something died 
in me when DD died. It was as if, as long as DD was alive and well 
at Hogwarts, all was well in the world. I wonder if the WW will even 
survive after book 7. But like Carol I will probably go back time to 
time and vist my old friends, and maybe take them some chocolate 
frogs too.

Tonks_op