OK, a slight misunderstanding here then. I'm still sorry this discussion make you sad. I did post another answer to your comment on entitlement below, before I saw this. But I will shut up now. I agree, this whole discussion has gone off on a tangent compared to your initial post. I will try and comment on that later, because I do think you make some interesting points there. Unfortunately, I can't do this right now, I'm running out of time - it will have to be in a couple of days.
I can see where you are coming from when you say it is hard to put the fandom behind you, even though you feel sad and betrayed by the last book. Although we do disagree on many points, I actually had the same reaction. I felt very sad and betrayed too. I think DH really is a horrible book in many ways. At a point towards the end I said aloud to myself: I can never be a potterfan again. It is over. And that made me very sad, I had invested so much energy and emotion in this fandom. It was like losing a leg and an arm.
Too many characters twisted around just for plot reasons (I don't believe in Kreacher's sudden conversion into a happy slave for one second, and that's just one example), a horrible ending (Harry gets to both die to save the world - and fight a 'high noon' type duel with the enemy - and be saved from having to kill him by some random wand trickery to boot! Impossible) The concept of Love as the 'power the dark lord knows not' is out the window, instead we have victory by superior might (the elder wand). Dubious messages indeed. I could go on endlessly, but I won't.
I was so sad and angry after I had finished the book that I left the fandom completely for a long while - all the fun was gone. Especially when I came online and saw how many it was that loved the book. But to me, almost all my 'worst case scenarios' - the things I absolutely did not think would happen, came true... And I was left feeling part of an unhappy minority.
So that's another reason why I came here and started to kick up all the old dust - this seemed to be a thread where there was a live discussion going on, of some of the topics that used to interest me. I discovered how much I've missed it and that I never had any real closure when I left so abruptly...
Your sister started a band? That sounds cool. And you are trying to become a writer, aren't you? I saw that in an earlier post, that you had been able to publish a short story in a magazine. If the fandom inspired you to do that, that's truly amazing. I am currently trying to finish a whole novel, too, that started out as a fanfic but has now gone off on an entirely new tangent, with my own characters. I am very exited about it, but whether it will ever be published is another story. If that happens, I will forever be grateful to JK Rowling for her inspiration. No matter how disappointed I was by the last two books.
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Re: What I'm wondering is-
Date: 2009-08-12 07:46 pm (UTC)I can see where you are coming from when you say it is hard to put the fandom behind you, even though you feel sad and betrayed by the last book. Although we do disagree on many points, I actually had the same reaction. I felt very sad and betrayed too. I think DH really is a horrible book in many ways. At a point towards the end I said aloud to myself: I can never be a potterfan again. It is over. And that made me very sad, I had invested so much energy and emotion in this fandom. It was like losing a leg and an arm.
Too many characters twisted around just for plot reasons (I don't believe in Kreacher's sudden conversion into a happy slave for one second, and that's just one example), a horrible ending (Harry gets to both die to save the world - and fight a 'high noon' type duel with the enemy - and be saved from having to kill him by some random wand trickery to boot! Impossible) The concept of Love as the 'power the dark lord knows not' is out the window, instead we have victory by superior might (the elder wand). Dubious messages indeed. I could go on endlessly, but I won't.
I was so sad and angry after I had finished the book that I left the fandom completely for a long while - all the fun was gone. Especially when I came online and saw how many it was that loved the book. But to me, almost all my 'worst case scenarios' - the things I absolutely did not think would happen, came true... And I was left feeling part of an unhappy minority.
So that's another reason why I came here and started to kick up all the old dust - this seemed to be a thread where there was a live discussion going on, of some of the topics that used to interest me. I discovered how much I've missed it and that I never had any real closure when I left so abruptly...
Your sister started a band? That sounds cool. And you are trying to become a writer, aren't you? I saw that in an earlier post, that you had been able to publish a short story in a magazine. If the fandom inspired you to do that, that's truly amazing. I am currently trying to finish a whole novel, too, that started out as a fanfic but has now gone off on an entirely new tangent, with my own characters. I am very exited about it, but whether it will ever be published is another story. If that happens, I will forever be grateful to JK Rowling for her inspiration. No matter how disappointed I was by the last two books.