[ SECRET POST #2739 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2739 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Things you thought you would hate, but didn't

[(Anonymous)]

I'm just like you with HP. The hype pissed me off, I remember watching the first thinking "oh cool" and the second like "uh...huh" and the third was just "ok now you're pushing it" and skipping on the rest. Or watching them forcefully with friends, giving them half to none of my attention.

And only recently, I decided to give it a second chance by reading the books and they're just awesome. I finished the first two in like a week or something and I'm midway through the 3rd, and it's just epic, I love it a lot now.

Re: Things you thought you would hate, but didn't

[elaminator]

I'm not blown away by the writing (not that I have anything against it either, mind you) but I did find the universe fascinating. And some of the characters were much more than I had hoped for as well, but overall I think I like the HP universe more than any individual characters in it. It's a fun, imaginative verse and I can see why people get sucked into it now.

My favorite thing is HP AU's, because I get the HP verse with characters I'm already attached too. Haven't read one in a while, actually...now I want to go find more.

Anyway, it's good to get past the hatred, isn't it? Because I def did not enjoy hating HP, it just happened. It was nice to look past that and see that there was something worth merit, and that I had judged too quickly and harshly.

Re: Things you thought you would hate, but didn't

[(Anonymous)]

I think part of what made me dislike it a little bit more was the fact that it was released around the same time that Lord of the Rings was and everyone I knew back then was more into HP and I felt like "...b-but, guys...lotr..." because I love LOTR to no end and I thought HP kinda got in the way. (hey I was young and stupid, okay..)

But I agree with you on not having a favorite character to love and rather admiring the creativity of the whole mash-up between normal people's and wizards' lives that makes it seem so realistically captivating that you end up getting fascinated by that instead of the characteristics of the people there (which are good too, btw, not saying they're not).

It's definitely good to get past the hate and understand what everyone sees in it and even join the fandom because it's so goddamn big and has a lot of goods, yess.

Re: Things you thought you would hate, but didn't

[elaminator]

I was always into LOTR too, and while I had friends who liked it everyone was so passionate about HP back then that it was impossible to get away from. It def didn't overshadow the LOTR stuff for me just because I made a concentrated effort to stay away from HP, but I do get what you're saying. HP at its most popular was unlike anything else I've ever seen.

Yup! Some of the characters are quite good, but the setting is the star of HP, at least for me.

Right? The fandom is massive to the point of not even knowing where to begin. When I first read the books I read a bit of fic, but it was overwhelming. Better to have too much fic than not enough though, right?