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

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"cubfanbudwoman" wrote:

> Am I truly in a small minority of people who still really LIKES the 
> Potterverse? still guffaws at some of JKR's clever turns of phrase? 
> still marvels at her creativity? still shakes her head that this 
> writer can have us arguing after SIX books about whether a 
character 
> is evil, good, neither or both? 

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11:59
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I can post again!

The Harry Potter experience is so much fun. One of the best parts is 
that my 11 year old can read it and I can read it and we can both 
enjoy it on different levels. My 17-year old, who wouldn't read a 
book if his life depended on it, can at least discuss the story with 
me.

Yeah, some of the "Wow" factor has worn off. We've gotten very 
familiar with the Wizarding World, so familiar that we've gotten 
critical of it. But, that's a different post. 

It was pretty cool to discover Snape would be DADA teacher, because 
we'd considered that hadn't we? JKR managed to toss a twist into it 
anyway
both with the way Harry found out, and with so little DADA 
time shown.(We didn't expect that!) Finding out that DADA really does 
have a curse was exciting. What I'm really saying is that JKR still 
has something new to show us, some new twist to surprise us, a not 
quite what we expected detail here and there.

I love re-reading the books and either coming upon a favorite line, 
or suddenly reading a line differently. There are at least 2 
Divination jokes woven into serious conversations. In one of the 
books Harry is trying to choose a subject for the next year and Percy 
(Percy!) says something along the line of, "It's never too soon to 
start thinking about your future, so you should take Divination." In 
HBP, DD says something along the line of, "I hadn't foreseen how much 
trouble Divination would be, never having taken the subject myself."

I love it!