I'm an atheist living in a city of sin, so no need to apologize in my direction.
I suspect that's not something eldritch and weird, but merely a side-effect of who the target market is.
Yeah, I completely agree. I do think it startles a lot of adults, though. We've come to expect it with musicians, but perhaps not so much with books.
Also, I would believe you more about Potter fans if I did not know the utter horror of its fanfic community, sprawled across the internet like a giant pornographic beast, holding flamewars because someone dared dis their OTP. :p
Actually, I think that sort of strengthens the point I was trying to make. Imagine that 99 out of every 100 adolescent Potter fans, on the internet and off, were obsessed with the same character. I think more adult readers and critics might be more disturbed by HP fandom if that were the case. (I also suspect that online fans represent only a small fraction of the larger HP fandom, though I have no data to back that up.)
I should qualify by saying that nothing I've written here about critical responses quite matches up to my own view of the series.
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Date: 2008-09-24 08:04 pm (UTC)I'm an atheist living in a city of sin, so no need to apologize in my direction.
I suspect that's not something eldritch and weird, but merely a side-effect of who the target market is.
Yeah, I completely agree. I do think it startles a lot of adults, though. We've come to expect it with musicians, but perhaps not so much with books.
Also, I would believe you more about Potter fans if I did not know the utter horror of its fanfic community, sprawled across the internet like a giant pornographic beast, holding flamewars because someone dared dis their OTP. :p
Actually, I think that sort of strengthens the point I was trying to make. Imagine that 99 out of every 100 adolescent Potter fans, on the internet and off, were obsessed with the same character. I think more adult readers and critics might be more disturbed by HP fandom if that were the case. (I also suspect that online fans represent only a small fraction of the larger HP fandom, though I have no data to back that up.)
I should qualify by saying that nothing I've written here about critical responses quite matches up to my own view of the series.