Harry Potter

[forsyth]

So I'm reading the new Harry Potter book, and I'm not done, though I probably will be by the time I'm posting next. But don't post spoilers anyway, just because.

But the thing is, as I'm reading the descriptions of life at Hogwarts, it doesn't ring quite true. It's not that it doesn't sound like school, or the kinds of things that happen there, but it doesn't resemble my school at all. Oh, not the fripperies, the magic and owls and death threats, but the interactions between the people. The kids, mostly. Which is always much more important than the gobbledygook about magic, since that's all covered by suspension of disbelief. I think it has less to do with the writing though, than with me. I probably just wasn't paying attention, or cared at the time, but all the petty "who's dating who" stuff seems, well, petty and silly, and wasn't something that I paid any attention to during school. Which is probably part of why I'm still terminally single, but.

Just random commentary.

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[kabbalist-mzdm.livejournal.com]

Actually, the dating angst in that book runs frighteningly close to what I'm seeing while attending college! In fact, it's closer to that than what I remember from high school.