Harry Potter Whiplash!

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It's been a real blast from the past lately, to use a trite cliche. I have been on a massive Harry Potter kick, and one far more thoughtful and intellectual than I think I was capable of as a young'un.

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Honestly, I never assumed Fred and Angelina were a couple. They went to the Yule Ball together, but so did Neville and Ginny. So I like the idea of George/Angelina pre-Fred's death.

Whiplash between "Harry Potter is the best book series ever, OMG it is the successor to Dickens and Hugo and Shakespeare and the Bible" and "These are the books that are going to ruin fantasy novels for an entire generation and are undoing 120 years of literary criticism." Yikes!

I'm right in the middle. I think especially for children's and YA literature, Harry Potter is amazing because beyond fantasy, it presents teenagers as they really are and lacks afterschool special plotlines while still making a point. No wonder it got kids to read; they were reading about themselves, not about some cat lady's idea of kids. (I see people my age already seeing kids through Afterschool Special lenses. I want to ask them, "what horrible thing happened to you that you honestly cannot remember anything between the ages of eleven and eighteen?") Besides, the books

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Fred/Angelina: What? But in fandom the slightest hint of friendship can be flammed into an undying unquenchable love! Witness the 57 pages on Remus and Tonks when their only interaction with just each other that was clearly articulated WAS the hospital confession scene