[the_old_crowd] Re: Whatever happened to nostalgia?

[Kat Macfarlane]

  Getting close to that stage with HP. It no longer engages, the characters
  seem less real than before, and I don't care what happens to any of them.
  Now that's something I never believed that I'd say.
  Unfortunately it's true.

  Kneasy

I think it is possible to get too wound up in the books, and work oneself into a state of exhaustion over them. I've tended to regard them from the beginning rather as I regard Italy: They're a nice place to spend intermittent long vacations, but I wouldn't want to live there, and there comes a time when you come home from vacation and get on with your life until the next time. 

I do see a maturation in the books; Harry and his friends can't stay eleven forever, like the ageless and immortal William Brown, if the plot arc is going to reach any kind of conclusion. But I don't see that as a deterioration in the quality of the books. HBP is my all-time favorite, with OotP running it a close second. (I never really "took" to GoF, book or movie, but that may just be that I'm not much for organized spectator sports.) I'm looking forward hugely to Book VII. As for the non-canon Jo stuff, I simply don't have time to keep up with it, so fail to be irritated by it.

--Gatta






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