[ SECRET POST #6462 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6462 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in the exact age group that grew up as the HP books were being published and thus grew up along with the characters, and although I was very into it as a teen, I never have and never will understand people who consider HP to have defined their lives. It's a series of YA fantasy novels that even during its height had a lot of discourse surrounding it. I don't understand why people treat it like the holy books of a religion they were raised to follow.

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[(Anonymous)]

Here is something else that is true: That is a real experience people had, whether you understand it or not. I think at the time it was not the quality of the books that made them meaningful, but the potential they had and the worldbuilding made it very easy escapism for people who were struggling with their lives -- which was a very common queer experience, and still is -- and the fact that they were popular made them the books that a bunch of people picked up and found like-minded fans for.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

"This defined my life" is not the same as pretending it's some religion. It's something that resonated with fans in a time they needed it. Maybe it even kept them going when they didn't see any point in doing so.

I don't understand why you're trying to take that away from them.

Frankly, it doesn't really matter of HP was "good" or not, or whether or not it had the level of discourse you claim it did 20 years ago. What matters is that some people connected with them once upon a time, and it isn't up to anyone else to dictate what they should do with that connection.

It's been about 15 years since I've given any kind of fuck about the series, but I will never regret my experience with it. It was fun and I enjoyed myself. I'm sad about what Rowling turned out to be, but her shittiness doesn't erase my experience. And neither do people who "will never understand people who consider HP to have defined their lives."

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

I lived through the time when they were unfinished and probably would never have read past the first book if it weren't for my little brother being exactly the right age to love the first movie enough to want to know what happened to the kiddos in it.

But that aside, I think I get why it's important to people who are a lot more into it than I will ever want to be. The amount of humans who don't identify who they are with having a job, having a spouse, raising kids, or really doing any of the other things society promotes as "worthy adult goals in life" has been increasing. The amount of people who feel a sense of common purpose with the country they're born into has been dwindling. Cities feel like shitty, ugly, prebuilt rat cages with entirely interchangeable occupants - st up so that when you die, someone else will pay money to move into your dwelling and take your job; aside from that, nothing will change. And something in people's souls just hurts and hates it, when they're expected to "fit in" to a world that needs productive and reasonably healthy human bodies, but doesn't need anything specific or unique to *them.* In contrast, the world of Harry Potter is a world where, just behind this ugly, meaningless collection of surfaces, there is another one that has not lost its enchantment and specificity. Where all magic wands are handmade, and the Londoner who crafts them is a personality with a name and an awareness that all the other people in his society are affected by the quality of his work and depending on him. Where every person who walks into his shop is an object of curiosity and potential significance to him. There's a presence and an attentiveness to the way people look at each other in Harry Potter. Like their lives matter, and like the kids have futures they're looking forward to. And even the people out here who never had that want it and respond to reading about it.