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Study concludes Harry Potter is 'addictive'
Naw, really? I done tol' ya: it's a poison that, once ingested, spreads to every vein. There's a reason my friends-list title is "other partakers of the poison". (Where's a bezoar when you need one?) A cumulative poison, probably, at that. But what's especially unremarkable is that I think this could probably apply to almost any fandom, it's just that HP is a really big one.
I see in the sidebar that OotP apparently grossed nearly $1 billion worldwide (presumably an American billion). OMGWTF? We should think of some way to apply Harry Potter to the national debt. (Not that $1bn isn't kind of a pathetic chunk of that. How many trillion are we up to now?)
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snapecast adds to this:
We all know that Snape fans have it rougher than the average HP fan. If quitting Harry is like deciding so stop smoking, then Snape withdrawal is akin to kicking a heroin habit. Many of us Snape fans are twitching and rummaging about in the dark corners of Knockturn alley dustbins, looking for scraps of pre-DH snark. Pssst, how many galleons do you want for that hit of AmbiguousGreySnape?
lol. It's funny (and pathetic) because it's true. That's not really what I was picturing when the nice man said "Severus tracks".
Naw, really? I done tol' ya: it's a poison that, once ingested, spreads to every vein. There's a reason my friends-list title is "other partakers of the poison". (Where's a bezoar when you need one?) A cumulative poison, probably, at that. But what's especially unremarkable is that I think this could probably apply to almost any fandom, it's just that HP is a really big one.
I see in the sidebar that OotP apparently grossed nearly $1 billion worldwide (presumably an American billion). OMGWTF? We should think of some way to apply Harry Potter to the national debt. (Not that $1bn isn't kind of a pathetic chunk of that. How many trillion are we up to now?)
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snapecast adds to this: We all know that Snape fans have it rougher than the average HP fan. If quitting Harry is like deciding so stop smoking, then Snape withdrawal is akin to kicking a heroin habit. Many of us Snape fans are twitching and rummaging about in the dark corners of Knockturn alley dustbins, looking for scraps of pre-DH snark. Pssst, how many galleons do you want for that hit of AmbiguousGreySnape?
lol. It's funny (and pathetic) because it's true. That's not really what I was picturing when the nice man said "Severus tracks".