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I'm re-reading OoTP again, I think that this is the 4th time I've read it, and last night I got to the bit where Harry ( spoilers )
When I first read OoTP I wasn't sure I liked it, it wasn't quite what I'd expected and I think fanfiction had tainted my view a bit. I found it hard to remember that Draco was Harry's enemy and not his lover, and other bizarre things. I still have the occasional double take but I'm better at separating the two mentally now. But it has grown on me, with every read I think. Like I say I think that this is the 4th time I've read it and it seems to be, I don't know, connecting with me so much more. I'm noticing all sorts of things that didn't really seem important before. But then it took me I don't know how many readings of Gone with the Wind before I began to notice all the subtle clues that Rett loves her all along (I'm thinking particularly of the clenched fist in his pocket when she says "Well you know I don't really love you" after accepting his proposal after Frank's funeral) so I think that I must just be a bit slow on the uptake, subtext wise.
When I first read OoTP I wasn't sure I liked it, it wasn't quite what I'd expected and I think fanfiction had tainted my view a bit. I found it hard to remember that Draco was Harry's enemy and not his lover, and other bizarre things. I still have the occasional double take but I'm better at separating the two mentally now. But it has grown on me, with every read I think. Like I say I think that this is the 4th time I've read it and it seems to be, I don't know, connecting with me so much more. I'm noticing all sorts of things that didn't really seem important before. But then it took me I don't know how many readings of Gone with the Wind before I began to notice all the subtle clues that Rett loves her all along (I'm thinking particularly of the clenched fist in his pocket when she says "Well you know I don't really love you" after accepting his proposal after Frank's funeral) so I think that I must just be a bit slow on the uptake, subtext wise.
