Do you get really into your interests like this?

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What has that got to do with this thread?

I agree the fiction is real fun. I think it's cool the character Hermione went back and finished her 7th year at Hogwarts and all ended up working for the Ministry of Magic in some form. I need to start understanding people just don't care about my interest. (and yet after seeing the movie it's a couple questions about it etc.) I can talk about my interest forever!! !

I think that if it exists, it's on the Internet somewhere. Maybe you could find a Harry Potter discussion forum?

Exactly. I really like True Blood but I really don't care about the real lives of the actors or interviews with them - it kind of ruins it for me.

And speaking of Harry Potter, I Dumbledore. He's so polite - even when Umbrage is so nasty.

Thanks. I've been on some Twilight and Potter boards but not much. I'd like RL friends to chat about interest with. We'll see what happens in College.

Seconded. One of my friends was going to an event and thought he might get a chance to meet an actor who played one of my favorite TV characters. He wanted to try to put the actor on the phone to talk to me. I had to threaten him to get him to promise not to. Yes, the actor did an excellent job portraying a fictional character. Yay for him. I hope they paid him good money for doing good work, but what on earth would I say to the guy? He's a complete stranger.

If he could have put the character on the phone, THEN I would have something to say. I get very absorbed in stories - reading them, writing them, and rehashing them. I feel like I know the characters a lot better than, say, the girl whose desk is two feet from mine.

Re: the original subject of needing someone to talk about Harry Potter with, maybe what you need is a 7 yr old. My daughter is 7, and bless her, she will listen to any remotely age-appropriate story attentively, and ask pertinent questions and then ask to hear it again from the beginning. We can talk about the characters, why they did what they did, what they ought to do next, how this or that magical power works...etc... etc... I remember kids I babysat who were 6 and 10 years old and they were like that too. I'd get them to do their chores by rehashing a PG version of the plot of every movie or book I could remember coherently, while we folded laundry or whatever.

LOL! How cute!! !!

That's how I am, about the original drummer of my favourite band. I've looked like him, for most of my life, to begin with, unintentionally. The thing about this guy, is that I like what he stands for, and you can see that, in my signature. He's the first proper role model, that I've had.

The lead singer was my role model, many years ago, almost to the point of anorexia, because look how skinny we was, and still is.

Yeah - my neice came to spend the night with me and was so excited and interested in all the stuff in my room. I could talk about art with her, show her all my interests, etc. and she never once feigned interest just to humor me. She was completely genuine. It was actually very refreshing to have someone so engaged.

I was in a store today and missed her (she moved to Germany) because she and I just look at all the same stuff and can just appreciate each other's sensibilities.