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author_by_nightFor whatever reason I've found myself having a lot of nostalgic conversations lately. So I thought I'd take a tongue-in-cheek look at how Harry Potter fandom has screwed me over for fiction, the internet, and the real world.
1. How werewolves are usually portrayed in films and movies will never seem quite right to me. "They're not shapeshifters by choice!" "That's not a wolf, that's a weird monster thing with a snout. Hmph." Even though those are the more classical interpretations...
2. When there's a gap between books in a series, or a show is on break, I never get people who say "there's nothing to discuss right now, so what's the point?" Nothing to discuss?! Long gaps in the series is the best time! I once went three years!
3. I sometimes come close to calling drama "wank", then stop myself because it means something different to people IRL.
4. When people talk about roleplayers like they're weirdos, I have to bite my lip. Hard. Although many of the people I used to RP with were weird...
5. Maggie Smith will always be McGonagall to me. Dan Radcliffe, however, not so much - between Equus and The Cripple of Inishmann....
6. I can't even talk about the books with people, because I feel like I either geek out to people who read the first two books ten years ago to their kids (and that's all they meant by "I like the books"), or I dumb them down ("I liked that old teacher guy with the purple hat") for people who end up being huge fans like me.
7. When I went to King's Cross in London (not for HP reasons, I literally had a train to catch), I kept thinking (despite my very best offers not to), "how on earth did JKR think they'd manage to have a secret platform here?"
1. How werewolves are usually portrayed in films and movies will never seem quite right to me. "They're not shapeshifters by choice!" "That's not a wolf, that's a weird monster thing with a snout. Hmph." Even though those are the more classical interpretations...
2. When there's a gap between books in a series, or a show is on break, I never get people who say "there's nothing to discuss right now, so what's the point?" Nothing to discuss?! Long gaps in the series is the best time! I once went three years!
3. I sometimes come close to calling drama "wank", then stop myself because it means something different to people IRL.
4. When people talk about roleplayers like they're weirdos, I have to bite my lip. Hard. Although many of the people I used to RP with were weird...
5. Maggie Smith will always be McGonagall to me. Dan Radcliffe, however, not so much - between Equus and The Cripple of Inishmann....
6. I can't even talk about the books with people, because I feel like I either geek out to people who read the first two books ten years ago to their kids (and that's all they meant by "I like the books"), or I dumb them down ("I liked that old teacher guy with the purple hat") for people who end up being huge fans like me.
7. When I went to King's Cross in London (not for HP reasons, I literally had a train to catch), I kept thinking (despite my very best offers not to), "how on earth did JKR think they'd manage to have a secret platform here?"
