I was a big Harry Potter fan back in elementary and middle school. Half Blood Prince came out after I started college, and Order of the Phoenix was the only HP book I actually owned, gifted to my mom by her coworker when the book came out. At the time, I didn’t know that my binge reading books 2-4 in 7th grade left a huge impression on my parents, but I remember getting grounded for staying up late reading book 4. When I tried to read HBP, somehow I couldn’t get into the story anymore. It made me wonder if it’s because of my lifestyle change and moving away from the adolescence environment. The setting of the series solely takes place in Hogwarts, and it made me realize I wasn’t really interested in the story or the characters much. I was mostly interested in the setting and world building that those books brought. Now the only thing that would get me interested in the Harry Potter IP would be something like a Sequence called I Peaked in Hogwarts.
I was a big Harry Potter fan back in elementary and middle school. Half Blood Prince came out after I started college, and Order of the Phoenix was the only HP book I actually owned, gifted to my mom by her coworker when the book came out. At the time, I didn’t know that my binge reading books 2-4 in 7th grade left a huge impression on my parents, but I remember getting grounded for staying up late reading book 4. When I tried to read HBP, somehow I couldn’t get into the story anymore. It made me wonder if it’s because of my lifestyle change and moving away from the adolescence environment. The setting of the series solely takes place in Hogwarts, and it made me realize I wasn’t really interested in the story or the characters much. I was mostly interested in the setting and world building that those books brought. Now the only thing that would get me interested in the Harry Potter IP would be something like a Sequence called I Peaked in Hogwarts.