Post-Hallows Depression

[SwedishSnorkack]

You know, I have never cried as much as I did after finished reading it.. It just ended like that!
I actually haven't reread it until this week, so weird I KNOW! And the tears wouldn't stop coming..

Harry Potter is the best that has ever happened to me, I'm so grateful to Jo. But I still suffer a post-Hallows depression..

[Montse]

So far these forums have been loads of help, We still have the movies to look forward to, But once those are done.I will be severly depressed.

[not_a_human]

In almost a year, how did I never see this thread!
I suffer from post Hallows depression very much. I cried at the appropriate sad parts while I was reading it, but when I finished the last page, I just kind of sat there for a moment and then I started crying for at least 5 minutes, just because it was all done and I knew that there wouldn't be another, and the books were so good and I was so sad! I was just reading some chapters of DH a few nights ago, and enjoying every minute of it. I havn't reread the whole book yet. I've been pondering it for a while and I've decided that every July I will read all 7 books in order. So, only a few more days to go! I'm truly sad that there are no more books, but I love that they are still there for me when I need to escape.

[Opaleye_Draco]

I'm still not over it - every now and then I realise the series is over and I start crying. My relief is reading (and writing rather badly) fanfiction to try and alleviate the ghastly truth.

[Luka13]

Before the seventh book came out I started to feel depressed, because I knew that after this one, there wasn't going to be another book. And then once I read the book in five days, I was a mess; I couldn't eat, it was hard to sleep and when I did I usually had a dream where I had just finished the book and the series was over. (Seriously, I had that dream more than once for a long time.. ) But then I began to get over my sadness, and now if I want to talk or read about Harry Potter related things I just come on here and that's enough for me.

[CharityBurbage]

I just started writing my own series. I suppose what I unintentionally did, also, was take everything good that I loved about the HP series, and put it at the heart of my own story. My series is not fanfiction at all, though in a way it started out that way. Now it's mostly the fact that they're in a British boarding school and are pagan (magical you could say) that makes my story similar with HP. Plus I just put everything I loved about the series (I mean lovable characters and setting and just the heart of the story and so on) and just started writing my own series!
It's not the same as HP, of course, but it helps get rid of the the post-potter blues most of the time!

[KDOG]

I got over my post-hallows depression a while ago. I am re reading the series again, I'm on GoF and it really helps. Once I finish re reading it I usually wait 6 months or so before I read them again.

[member_of_SPEW]

I never got depressed after DH came out, maybe because I only became an obsessive fan a few months before. (I'd been a big fan for almost ten years - I knew all the trivia and all about the books - but only came online that spring.) I cried intermittently throughout the book, and for the last couple hundred pages solidly, and for a little while after it finished - but because I was happy, not because I was sad. If I hadn't been able to be on Mugglenet and stuff I probably would have been more sad, but then if I didn't have Mugglenet I wouldn't have had cause to be sad.

Originally Posted by not_a_human

I havn't reread the whole book yet. I've been pondering it for a while and I've decided that every July I will read all 7 books in order. So, only a few more days to go! I'm truly sad that there are no more books, but I love that they are still there for me when I need to escape.

I'm in the same position - I've been reading bits here and there, but haven't read DH since July (when I read it three times in succession). I think I'll have to make every July Harry Potter Month, too! (And it fits in with Harry's birthday.)

[Mrs_D_Malfoy]

o i definatly had post DH depression. well, for some inexplicable reason i got the book a week after it came out (someone was supposed to get it for me but ended up not ) i read it no stop after that. then when i finished i was pretty dissapointed w/ the ending. it just seemed like there needed to be more (or at least a better description of what happened after that last day at Hogwarts). or maybe it was because i thought it was too happy. i know i know, harry had such a hard life he deserved some happiness but i was secretly hoping for somthing else to come up (w/ draco maybe???? ). i was pretty sad after that (especially when i came on here and talked about it) it's just like....it's over, what now? kinda like the end of a great sports season (when it's you last) that kinda thing, you wish it could just go on forever. it sorta got better after the summer because i had less time to just sit around, but now summer's back and i got back on here lol, now it's like i'm expecting another one to come out.

[The_Green_Woods]

I don't think I'll get depression; I never got it once the series got over; I don't think I'll get it now or after the movies have been released and everything's over (I'll still have the Scottish Book to look forward to anyway). I am enjoying discussing the theories to death right now, and even if that's over; well I'll still have the books and my imagination with me and the memories of some lovely discussions here, on these boards.

[xhanax315]

I really didnt get a depression, I cried my eyes out when I closed the book Sunday morning. The only thing was that I locked myself in my room and reread the series. I hadnt left the house in over a week and my mother got a bit worried. Its still heartbreaking every time I close DH and knowing Harrys story is over.

[The_Green_Woods]

But it really isn't, I feel. Harry's story still lives, and the beauty of it for me is that there is an impression of Snape in Snape's portrait in Hogwarts. And Dumbledore is there as well. JKR could do anything with this in the future if she decides, not to mention the prequel with special attention on the first war.

[JamesPotter17]

Really for two days up to a week after I closed DH, I couldn't stop quoting the books, that was my depression. I had dreams of me quoting the books, when I woke up I quoted the books. The two days after I finished it, I couldn't go to sleep because I couldn't get my mind off Harry. All I could do was quote and quote and quote.

It would keep me up every night, be on my mind every day, all the time. I would watch Tv and I would find some way to make it like Harry. It was strange for me. And my parents could tell that I was different as well.

Now I'm glad that I'm over it, and hope I don't go back into depression after the movies end, cause that would still suck!

[ArryGrotter]

I think these were because of some sort of depression:

I suddenly became attached to a certain forum

I also had a big plan to script all the books into better movies... Have only managed half of PS so far...

[L1keAstaRRxx]

Harry Potter-my salvage.

For many years, it was something that I could turn to no matter what and it saddens me to see it end. It was such a part of my youth and adolecense, and it makes me sad to see it drift away.

[lil_snuffles]

I still can't believe the series is over. Its been a year and I still don't want to believe it.

[L1keAstaRRxx]

Originally Posted by lil_snuffles

I still can't believe the series is over. Its been a year and I still don't want to believe it.

Me neither. It seems just like yesterday that I was seven and my parents bought me the case of the first four Harry Potter books. I was so excited. Now I'm so sad that it's over. NOthing else to really wonder about. There are a few loose ends here and there but still.

[lil_snuffles]

Originally Posted by L1keAstaRRxx

Me neither. It seems just like yesterday that I was seven and my parents bought me the case of the first four Harry Potter books. I was so excited. Now I'm so sad that it's over. NOthing else to really wonder about. There are a few loose ends here and there but still.

Same here. Except I started reading the series in the middle of 7th grade. My best friend got me into reading them. I thank her for that.

[L1keAstaRRxx]

Originally Posted by lil_snuffles

Same here. Except I started reading the series in the middle of 7th grade. My best friend got me into reading them. I thank her for that.

I started reading it in second grade. I was always good at reading. I got my friend into it. Seriously, it's just an ingenious novel, and it makes me sad to see it go away for good. I just can't believe it.

[lil_snuffles]

Originally Posted by L1keAstaRRxx

I started reading it in second grade. I was always good at reading. I got my friend into it. Seriously, it's just an ingenious novel, and it makes me sad to see it go away for good. I just can't believe it.

Its weird because for me I never liked reading. It never was my favorite thing to do. Then as I started reading Harry Potter, I loved reading and I started to actually like reading books that we had to read in school. Thank you Harry Potter!