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Aging past our characters
Apr. 14th, 2012 06:04 pmJK Rowling started writing the first Harry Potter book in 1991, and it was finally published in 1997, while in universe, it was still set in 1991. The second book was published in 1998, third in 1999, and the 4th in 2000. But then, the 5th book, which was huuuuge, was published in 2003 after a lapse of 3 years. The next two books were also spaced two years apart.
What this means is that while Harry Potter is the book many of us grow up reading, after Book 4, we are no longer growing up with the characters, the way it is with a yearly TV series like Buffy where in-universe time is pretty much the same as viewer's time. This might be less of a problem for much younger fans, or young fans who started late into the series, but I started reading Harry Potter when I was the same age as him. The 3 years difference meant that I was suddenly older than Harry's year, so instead of being interested in Harry's Year / Harry's Year, I was an Oliver/Percy shipper.
By the nature of the time difference, at the end of the series, I was feeling really gross out (and OLD) whenever the ickles teenagers kissing scenes came up in the book. Ickles Teenagers Kissing + even greater time difference of the movies is also why I would probably be soooo uncomfortable watching it (and not dislike, per se, but lack of interest once I found out there will be no Albus x Gellert in the movies).
Am I the only Older Harry Potter fan that feels this way? I don't think there is anything wrong or abnormal with teenagers being teenagers, but now that I'm not one anymore, it's gross. I'm sure the feeling is more than mutual, haha!
I like humour fics involving Harry's years, but even aged up, I prefer any non-platonic fics to be about the Marauder's Generation and older, like Albus x Gellert. Now that I'm old, it's hard to take "Harry's Year / Harry's Year is 20 + now blah blah blah" seriously when the most recent public images we have on their characters is by their babyfaced actors and actresses, yikes!
What this means is that while Harry Potter is the book many of us grow up reading, after Book 4, we are no longer growing up with the characters, the way it is with a yearly TV series like Buffy where in-universe time is pretty much the same as viewer's time. This might be less of a problem for much younger fans, or young fans who started late into the series, but I started reading Harry Potter when I was the same age as him. The 3 years difference meant that I was suddenly older than Harry's year, so instead of being interested in Harry's Year / Harry's Year, I was an Oliver/Percy shipper.
By the nature of the time difference, at the end of the series, I was feeling really gross out (and OLD) whenever the ickles teenagers kissing scenes came up in the book. Ickles Teenagers Kissing + even greater time difference of the movies is also why I would probably be soooo uncomfortable watching it (and not dislike, per se, but lack of interest once I found out there will be no Albus x Gellert in the movies).
Am I the only Older Harry Potter fan that feels this way? I don't think there is anything wrong or abnormal with teenagers being teenagers, but now that I'm not one anymore, it's gross. I'm sure the feeling is more than mutual, haha!
I like humour fics involving Harry's years, but even aged up, I prefer any non-platonic fics to be about the Marauder's Generation and older, like Albus x Gellert. Now that I'm old, it's hard to take "Harry's Year / Harry's Year is 20 + now blah blah blah" seriously when the most recent public images we have on their characters is by their babyfaced actors and actresses, yikes!
