Character Development

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 179202

Jen wrote:
>  One day a few 
> years from now, with all my expectations adjusted and emotional 
> investment in the outcome long since forgotten, I hope to read the 
> series again and enjoy the story for what it is instead of noticing 
> all that I thought would happen and didn't.  Or I might end up 
> thinking it wasn't that great after all, who knows?!?  But I'd like 
> to read it again without theories, speculation and my own hopes 
> ringing in my ears.
> 
> Jen, wondering if such a reading is possible after years of 
> discussing HP.

Potioncat:
Me too. I'd like to re-read it with "what I know now" but witout any of 
the "What I wanted before" or even "What I don't like now." I think it 
will be possible, even with all our discussion. In some ways, what 
we've learned about the characters is similar to real life. It's like 
being at a wedding with your Aunty Muriel--erm Aunty Jo--and she 
suddenly spouts on about some event in the family history that you 
never heard before. And now you see certain relatives differently.

I'm looking forward to it---just wonder how long I should wait before I 
start, and whether I can meet here with others to discuss the 
experience afterwards. ;-)

Potioncat, who in RL, just learned that our 90 year old, timid-as-a-
mouse, spinster aunt was once engaged, but the young man was killed in 
WWII.