I'm actually not getting the book until morning and can't even read it until much later [yay bridal showers from hell] but. :( I can't stop thinking about how I got into the fandom and how awesome it's been to me. But when I think of fandom the firs thing that jumps out at me is natternet. Short-lived and not very well known, but the minute I was approached with "we have this awesome original idea and think you'd be a great Neville" I knew I would love it. And I did, a lot, even if I was only in it for like seven months and quit rather abruptly but oh. It was good to me. It's where I found my love for Neville/Pansy, and Theodore/Luna, and reaffirmed my gayotp of Zacharias/Harry. So good. I loved that RPG
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My favorite memory was tonight, actually, waiting in line to get the book. I was surrounded by fellow HP fans and I was totally comfortable talking and laughing with total strangers because we all had that common bond.
It's been that way all these years, actually, thinking back on it. So long as people have Harry Potter in common, they're totally content with each other. It's a surprisingly generous fandom.
(Unless, of course, the shipper crazies show up and crash the party.)
I guess my favourite memory is of when I actually took the plunge.
I really dislike being hyped, so I resisted Potter out of main stubbornness until after the third book was out. By that point, it was so obviously so massive that I figured I had to read one, if only as job research.
Within a chapter, I'd realised that it actually truly _was_ hairs-on-the-back-of-the-neck grade outstanding stuff. I finished the first one in about two hours flat, went back into town and got the other two, and finished them the same day as well. Then I re-read them all.
Truly awesome stuff.
It's going to be strange without them looming -- a generational event on the same level as the Star Wars movie '77.
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And they had no clue the other said that. Scary.
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It's been that way all these years, actually, thinking back on it. So long as people have Harry Potter in common, they're totally content with each other. It's a surprisingly generous fandom.
(Unless, of course, the shipper crazies show up and crash the party.)
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I'm just about to get my book. I'm so happy/sad.
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I really dislike being hyped, so I resisted Potter out of main stubbornness until after the third book was out. By that point, it was so obviously so massive that I figured I had to read one, if only as job research.
Within a chapter, I'd realised that it actually truly _was_ hairs-on-the-back-of-the-neck grade outstanding stuff. I finished the first one in about two hours flat, went back into town and got the other two, and finished them the same day as well. Then I re-read them all.
Truly awesome stuff.
It's going to be strange without them looming -- a generational event on the same level as the Star Wars movie '77.
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