{"id":1585,"date":"2013-08-05T03:57:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T01:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2014-04-21T09:42:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T07:42:04","slug":"post-potter-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/?p=1585","title":{"rendered":"Post Potter Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pittsburgh<\/a>The characters in this book are fine. I don\u2019t hate them. They aren\u2019t very nice people but they are in a Shirley Jackson book, after all. Still, they are not too offensive. This book has most of the stuff I like: a eunuch librarian, a premonition of Armageddon, pie, unattractive shrubbery. But I crawl through it with a listless malaise that I haven\u2019t experienced since I accidentally took nighttime cold medicine at 8 a.m.<\/p>\n

I blame J.K Rowling.<\/p>\n

In keeping with my trend of being seven years behind every trend, I have just now finished the Harry Potter<\/i> books. J.K Rowling spent seven books ingeniously developing several story lines, several subplots, and \u2013 most importantly \u2013 several characters, and we all (some sooner than others) spent seven books loving them.<\/p>\n

After spending so much time with Harry Potter and his talented companions, it\u2019s sad to leave the land of Hogwarts and come back to the land of, well, other fiction. I trundle through this book with the sad knowledge that Hermione Granger is not going to apparate at The Three Broomsticks and say something very logical.<\/p>\n

And nothing else Potter is going to happen, either. There is zero chance of a Patronus in any form, the Snape question has been answered, Ron and Tonks and Lupin will not make an appearance. I will not read about Dumbledore\u2019s Army, Neville Longbottom, or Luna Lovegood.<\/p>\n

I am clearly suffering from some sort of literary separation anxiety.<\/p>\n

And before you say it, I know I\u2019m coming late to the Harry Potter<\/i> party. I stated my woes to my brother, an avid fan who was on time to the Harry Potter<\/i> party, and he simply replied: \u201cYeah, the rest of us went through this shit seven years ago. Welcome to our world.\u201d<\/p>\n

But I don\u2019t like this world!<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time I have been bit by the post something depression.<\/p>\n

I had a similar problem after watching three seasons of The Walking Dead<\/i> in three weeks \u2013 this was two years after it was popular; therefore I was five years ahead of my scheduled trend. Non-zombie television just wasn\u2019t the same after watching the living dead eat people I had grown to like.<\/p>\n

Frasier Crane might botch his Duck \u00e0 l’Orange before a big date, but as long as his date doesn\u2019t bite his face off he will get over it. Adrian Monk can\u2019t find his wife\u2019s killer, but his wife\u2019s living corpse isn\u2019t going to eat him in the woods.<\/p>\n

Regular television gets a little boring when you know that everyone in the program is going to survive the episode. Average sitcoms don\u2019t rouse that much adrenalin when there is no chance of a cannibalistic evisceration.<\/p>\n

Still, this post depression is a testament to solid writing and character development. If Harry Potter and his chums weren\u2019t lovable, relatable characters then I wouldn\u2019t miss them. If The Walking Dead<\/i> wasn\u2019t engaging, intense, and full of real characters, then I might watch Frasier<\/i> without secretly hoping for a herd of walkers to come through Caf\u00e9 Nervosa.<\/p>\n

I wish I had gone through this Potter depression seven years ago when there were support groups I could join. Guess I\u2019ll start researching post Game of Thrones <\/i>depression support groups now.<\/p>\n

Any advice on getting over my Post Potter Depression?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The characters in this book are fine. I don\u2019t hate them. They aren\u2019t very nice people but they are in a Shirley Jackson book, after all. Still, they are not too offensive. This book has most of the stuff I like: a eunuch librarian, a premonition of Armageddon, pie, unattractive shrubbery. But I crawl through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EvEu-pz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1589,"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}