I agree that the communication technology breakthroughs have lead to a world where people can feed their obsessions 24/7. Fanfic! Forums! Awesome Cleo Recaps! It doesn't matter that the series ended and the reader supposedly has closure, because the chatter can live forever online.
I was a pretty voracious HP fan. I was on TLC and Mugglenet all the time, mostly lurking but hungry for any book/movie/cast update. But yeah, no fantasies about a romantic tryst with Harry. Or Draco. ;-) But Twilight gives you all the loving devotion from the MOST PERFECT GUY EVER. His only flaw is loving you too much! I suppose its much easier to want to be Bella, whose job is to swoon and be rescued all the time, as opposed to stepping into Harry's (or any other lit. figure's) shoes.
A good friend of mine is a therapist for troubled teens, and she has to help many girls separate the real world from the Twi-verse. I can't even imagine.
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Date: 2009-07-22 05:16 pm (UTC)I was a pretty voracious HP fan. I was on TLC and Mugglenet all the time, mostly lurking but hungry for any book/movie/cast update. But yeah, no fantasies about a romantic tryst with Harry. Or Draco. ;-) But Twilight gives you all the loving devotion from the MOST PERFECT GUY EVER. His only flaw is loving you too much! I suppose its much easier to want to be Bella, whose job is to swoon and be rescued all the time, as opposed to stepping into Harry's (or any other lit. figure's) shoes.
A good friend of mine is a therapist for troubled teens, and she has to help many girls separate the real world from the Twi-verse. I can't even imagine.