[ SECRET POST #6881 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6881 ⌋

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Comments

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Because it's a fun story I have nostalgia for, and it really helps that she didn't have any opinion of me when she wrote the books. I can read the books without thinking "JK Rowling was planning my demise as she wrote these words," because she wasn't. I can't be enthusiastic about any new content she's making, but that just makes me sad, not angry.

PS

[(Anonymous)]

Please don't respond with "Read a new book." I read tons of books that I love even more than HP and would participate in fandoms and buy merch for if it existed. My life doesn't revolve around HP. It's just one of many old fandoms I still like having fun with sometimes and have people to do it with, and so I made a secret about it.

Re: PS

[(Anonymous)]

There's nothing wrong with enjoying some nostalgia. The good times we had with HP still exist even if they've been tarnished since then.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I mean I have nostalgia for things I grew up and left behind because I realized how horrid they were or how horrible the writer was so like. I guess I can't understand clinging to something like this? Like, there's a billion other things out there I could be enjoying instead. I'm not trying to be mean, I do mean that, I just don't get a lot of nostalgia.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I mean she just never vocally had an opinion on you when she wrote the books. I'm trans myself. You dont know what she was thinking. The way you are talking is WILDLY parasocial

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I totally understand what you mean, OP. I feel pretty much exactly the same way.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I get it OP.

I can't really enjoy the source material anymore, but I still feel fondness for the good things I picked up from them.

I often think of some life lessons I took from the series, such as when Siruis told Harry you can get a real look at a man's view of others by how he treats those inferior to him. I also can't help but enjoy House sorting/comparisons in similar ways I do with astrology/MBTI personalities. Not serious but fun to look at how others approach the world based on their personality stereotypes, see how true or false some claims are.

It's hard to completely let go of something that helped shape you.