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Prolix about Potter — or merely pooped?
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In about 24 hours, oxygen will return to the reading world as we know it with the release of the seventh and last Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. On one hand, it’s encouraging that news media can get so worked up over something that’s not Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan or a missing white woman. On the other, and speaking personally as a fan, I’ve read about as much as I can hold. Where’s a wand when you want to say, Terminus!
As with any other pop culture phenomenom, invented words are following in its tow. Here are some - feel free to post your own.
Pottermania - intense fan interest in books, movies, characters and/or merchandise drawn from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books.
Potterphobia - intense reaction against and avoidance of things related to Harry Potter, frequently triggered by Pottermania
Potterphilia - Love of all things Potter, often marked by excessive purchases of merchandise
Potter’s field - Where indulgent parents of demanding Potterphilic children can end up
Potterpsichorean - Pertaining to non-Muggle dancing
Post Pottertum depression - sad, lethargic state following the reading of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and realizing it’s the last of the Potter series.
Potterdammerung - (I wish I could claim this one, but it’s been circulating on the Internet for some time.) The final, climatic spasm of fan emotion, leading to the knowledge of Potter’s ultimate destiny.
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