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MAN tmw you want to read HP again and comment on it but
Rival Fenix
Do it anyway? Like, if you like the series then yay. You like the story for what it means to you. Forget the author if you can.
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I can't tho XD
Rival Fenix
Cherish HP for what it is: an escapist magical world were everyone can be special.
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And it's not a huge thing more like intellectual curiositiy because it was never a huge part of my life but
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Well aside from several RP character
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s
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but it's not worth it for me
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even tho I want it
Rival Fenix
Ah. I'd still read though. It is a good story.
Rival Fenix
But also fair.
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I have such complicated feelings on HP
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like
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I like it and it was sort of formative
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But JKR
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is a garbage person
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And there are other books that do it better
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I don't know that I'll ever be able to read it again.
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That said I enjoy the podcast Witch, Please.
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They are two literary feminists and they discuss it very intelligently.
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I'd say even just start with the most recent season since they pick themes that can be found or read from the HP books and discusses what those themes are, their history, and how they are found in the books.
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but like honestly, you aren't actually missing out if you never read them.
Pen Again
For me, it meant more that I read them and experienced them with people than that I read them, so that's something she-who-must-not-be-named cannot take away and it's also something that can't really be recaptured either.
Pen Again
So for now they just exist as books that are on my shelf and that's that
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ohh podcast
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yeah for me I was into them but I wasn't super into them tho I awnted to be. I played Marauders era peeps because of course I did but
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it's just the feel of it except the feel can't be the same
Tanarian
I miss the Three-Year Summer most of all, I think.
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three year summer?
Pen Again
I never RPโd from hp. I think I was barely back into rp at the time the last film came out
Pen Again
But I can see you doing marauders era, yeah
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SIriusly
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I also played young Ted Tonks with Heath Ledger as a PB and he wore platforms with live gold fish or hamsters in the see through soles
Pen Again
Lol
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....I also played Barty Crouch Jr.
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GOddamnit Tennant
Pen Again
Iโd have probably played Neville if I played anyone tbh
Pen Again
...
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/nods
Pen Again
Of course you did
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/SOB
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and Kinglsey Shacklebolt
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I was a lot of people
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but I was kicked from the game because the other head mod was Snape and serious about it
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and Sirius was uh
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kind of a dick to him
zoki.
the three year summer was the three year gap between books four and five. a lot of fanon and theories flourished then
Pen Again
Is book 4 the one with the triwizard tournament? I missed that aspect of fandom because I read book the triwizard book in direct anticipation of the release of the next one.
Pen Again
Because my sister and mom were caught up and I was like ok, I guess I should so I can participate in this
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ohhh
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ROFL OH MAN
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you wanna hear something embarrassing?
Pen Again
??
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I used to work at abookstore when Half Blood Prince came out
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and I was the only one there into Harry Potter
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and a news crew came in and asked me one thing I predicted for the next book (HBP)
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and I was like
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SiRIUs iSN't DeAD D>>>>>>
Pen Again
Aww
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as usual they looked at me like I was nuts
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curse my over dramatic nature
Flash Bastard
To the extent that I'm still in the fandom, it's because better worldbuilding than Jo's is possible with minimal effort. XD
Flash Bastard
Also there's some damn fine fic out there.
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that's true
papermint tiger
i didn't want Sirius to be dead
papermint tiger
i love it when fanfic is able to save him
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he's not dead he's just trapped in a jamjar RP
Flash Bastard
He's not dead, he just went to London Below for a bit.
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y
papermint tiger
i wish my favorite author would go back to writing HP fanfic but she seems pretty stuck on Star Wars atm
papermint tiger
and discouraged by everything surrounding HP
Flash Bastard
I find I can't really blame anyone who doesn't want to engage anymore, considering.
Flash Bastard
But those of us who still are engaging are also doing an important thing, which is not letting Jo own the narrative.
papermint tiger
yeah i definitely can't blame her, she's very popular in some circles so she already deals with an absolute avalanche of idiots telling her that she's doing this or that wrong