[ SECRET POST #2987 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2987 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

02. http://i.imgur.com/dpyUgTK.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

If you already read fic, how is that different from the canon, though? I've read a LOT of HP fic (I was in the fandom pretty much as soon as there was one) and never read one better than the books. So I'd at least give one of them a try. Just a suggestion, not a criticism. :)

I do get how the rules imposed on you makes it hard to enjoy now, though.

[(Anonymous)]

That's fair, I think. So often, much of what we respond to, in fiction or in anything, is a result of how we come to it.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't read the books until I was already an adult (The first one didn't come out till way into my teens), and I was already on my 5th or so internet fandom. It doesn't have to be a formative experience to enjoy it.

[a_potato]

I don't think that's odd at all. When something has that kind of influence, it's totally possible to acknowledge and even appreciate that influence without experiencing or even liking the thing itself.

And, honestly, I think you're on to something when it comes to Harry Potter. Looking back, I'm not sure that I would have enjoyed reading it as much as I did if it weren't for the atmosphere that surrounded it. It's definitely somewhat time-bound, I think.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm old enough that I basically missed it. I wasn't in the target demographic for the first books.

I have picked up a lot of HP knowledge just from other people online talking about it, and then it overlapping with another fandom I was in.

It was years later that I watched the first movie--and actually watched it, not just had it on in the background as other people were watching in on TV--and it was pretty good!

[(Anonymous)]

Idk, OP, you might want to give it a try-- I didn't read HP until I was out of college, and I LOVED it.

[elaminator]

I read it quite late too, just to understand what a friend was always talking about. I liked the first couple books well enough, but never finished. This is one series where I honestly felt more interested in the world than the characters; I've read HP AU's that I enjoyed more than the books.

However, I don't think when you read it should make much difference, but whatever your reason it's okay not to be into it.

[asecretchord]

I didn't start reading Harry Potter until I was in my 40s. My ten year old nephew was reading them and my mother-in-law (who was in her 60s) raved about them. My kids and I started reading them sometime in between Azkaban and Goblet of Fire and I didn't start writing in the fandom until 2011.

Harry Potter is enjoyable at any age, OP and the sophistication of the books grows right along with Harry.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[kallanda_lee]

I got into the fandom in college, when the first movie came out. There's no right wa to do it really.

[caerbannog]

Eh I skipped a few of the books. I like the world building but don't overly enjoy the source material (including the movies). No biggie.

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[(Anonymous)]

Image: one of the Harry Potter covers

Text: I never read the books as a child because one of my parents looked down on fantasy and I wanted approval. I think they were jealous of Rowling because they had unfulfilled creative ambitions.

Nowadays I’m openly into fantasy, but I don’t feel the urge to catch up on HP because I wouldn’t feel the way my friends do about it as a formative thing. Yet, I appreciate what it’s done and like Hogwarts AUs and headcanons. I’m an odd duck. *shrug*

[(Anonymous)]

It's funny that you call the HP books formative (they were definitely a cultural force, I remember playing with HP Potions Class Lego set, complete with Snape, Harry, Hermione, Ron and Malfoy). But I honestly don't see how they were "Formative" per se...And so I'm reading them over (also to write proper fic, seeing as how the fic I've read either pulls shit out their ass or out of the book, and it's good either way). Maybe you should give them a try? Or audiobook it?

Seeing these HP secrets lately feels like a sign that I should read them over.

[alexi_lupin]

I thought OP meant they were now too old for the books to be a formative influence in their life in the same way that they are to me for example, who started reading them at age 9. Not necessarily that the books are inherently formative in nature.

[lentils]

Oh hey, same! Almost. My mom wouldn't let me read it because ~witchcraft~. At this point, I'm 23 and I feel like the chance has kind of passed me by. I had other super formative book series as a kid, I don't really need this one. (Also, I like the looks of horror on people's faces when I mention I haven't read the books.)

[(Anonymous)]

Just want to say OP I had a similar thing, my parents wouldn't let me read the book for religious reasons (was allowed to read Narnia and LOTR but I guess they had the benefits of being classics of literature and also the fact the writers were Christian/Catholic)

[litalex]

JKR is Christian, afaik. Her views on free will and choice were pretty Calvinist. And you can almost argue that Harry was a Christ figure.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

By the time I read Harry Potter was an adult and the worst I got was one person at church going on about the "questionable content" of the books (you know, the whole religious freakout about HP promoting witchcraft).

I never got that from Mum though, I had easy-going parents on that front, who understood that I had a good concept of the reality/fiction divide.

[dancing_serpent]

Both my sister and I started reading the HP books when we were in our mid-twenties, and we loved them anyway. *g*

[litalex]

The first book came out when I was 17, and I still read it and loved it.

I'd encourage you to try it anyways.They're pretty damn good.