[ SECRET POST #3175 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3175 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

All of them. I remembered loving GOF and DH the best, so I kept thinking it would get better. It did a bit, but the style still didn't work for me.

I also think it has to do with the fact that the stuff I'm reading now is more mature and adult, so even the later HP books felt a little childish for me.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds like a good thing. You're exploring new styles.

Who knows, you might come back to Harry Potter in 30 years time and they might seem fresh again. Or you might find something you like even better.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

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It could also be that you've tapped out when it comes to what you can feel for the books. I'm the type of fan who tends to love a single story obsessively and for a long time. But then, once the obsession stops, I can never seem to feel much of anything about the story anymore. It just falls very flat for me. After a while of this happening I realized it wasn't the stories themselves that were meh, but my ability to appreciate them. It's as though my brain had the "OMG I LOVE THIS IT'S AMAZING PERFECT WONDERFUL" response to that one stimulus so many times that eventually that stimulus just stops making anything happen. My brain won't react emotionally at all anymore.

Meanwhile, I can still see all the story's imperfections, because that's not an emotional response so it never got tapped out. So in the end all I'm seeing is the imperfections, without even being able to appreciate the story in the low key way a casual reader would.

The story is actually still good. Maybe not as awe-inspiringly good as I thought it was when I was obsessing over it, but good all the same. I just can't connect to it anymore.