Re: tumblr - ha , yes, I feel you. I'm still on tumblr, but I find it so incredibly frustrating and unsatisfactory when it comes to fandom interaction that I'm close to despair on a daily basis. Le siiiigh. :p
And with regard to HP -- don't worry at all, I was genuinely curious. I can totally see all of your points on this! While I was perhaps not nearly as attached to the magical school genre as you are, I can and do appreciate it very much (especially the Roald Dahl connection you bring up!). Also, there were other aspects that really upset me back in the day when reading the latter books. (It may sound silly *now*, but at the time, Sirius Black's death almost made me quit the books completely. It just felt unnecessarily cruel to that character. Almost like, 'let's take one of Harry's mentors away just for the sake of *Harry's* storyline with no regard to *Sirius'* arc' Idk. like I said, it sounds silly, but as he was my favourite character, it was just...crushingly depressing to me at the time.)
Again, while I don't necessarily feel as strongly about some of the issues you've brought up (simply as it's been that long since I read the series), I can definitely understand where you are coming from. Thanks for explaining! :)
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Date: 2017-05-26 12:06 pm (UTC)And with regard to HP -- don't worry at all, I was genuinely curious. I can totally see all of your points on this! While I was perhaps not nearly as attached to the magical school genre as you are, I can and do appreciate it very much (especially the Roald Dahl connection you bring up!). Also, there were other aspects that really upset me back in the day when reading the latter books. (It may sound silly *now*, but at the time, Sirius Black's death almost made me quit the books completely. It just felt unnecessarily cruel to that character. Almost like, 'let's take one of Harry's mentors away just for the sake of *Harry's* storyline with no regard to *Sirius'* arc' Idk. like I said, it sounds silly, but as he was my favourite character, it was just...crushingly depressing to me at the time.)
Again, while I don't necessarily feel as strongly about some of the issues you've brought up (simply as it's been that long since I read the series), I can definitely understand where you are coming from. Thanks for explaining! :)