[HPforGrownups] HP as escapist children's literature (was Harry's DADA skill)

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 182723

Jerri:
My question (to Julie or to anyone who can help) is how do you get
yourself to do this? Ever since DH, when I found my expectations of
the HP series as a whole were destroyed, I have been trying to regain
my delight in the HP series as the children's story which I have
decided it actually was. I have been struggling with this. I miss my
delight and enthusiasm.

Lynda:
I never expected it to be more than the story of a boy who saves the world.
That's what it was promoted as, that was what I expected. Yes, I enjoyed the
secondary characters, but that's what they are: SECONDARY. Not PRIMARY (caps
are for emphasis not to indicate yelling). In any series as long as the HP
books there are going to be a lot of characters and situations that are just
there. Some of them will be addressed and some won't. Just like, when I go
down to the bus stop, I see people. Sometimes we chat. Sometimes we don't.
But the people I chat with at the bus stop are really, for the most part,
minor parts of my life--especially since I live near a battered women's
shelter and those ladies only stay in the area for a short period of time.
But with only a couple of exceptions, the people who ride the bus are
nothing more than casual acquaintances. That doesn't mean I don't have any
interest in them, just that they pass through my life and we both go on our
ways. The secondary characters in the HP books are something like that I
think.

Lynda


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