https://youtube.com/watch?v=HXebJUq53p0
TL:DR Humbert (the guy telling the story in his memoir) is intentionally acting subversive and attempting to win the reader to his side by painting things through his view. His attraction, instead of being immoral and illegal is framed instead as pure love, despite him not even seeing Dolores as anything but a child to molest and use. He's an unreliable narrator trying to seem innocent in his kidnapping and molestation by blaming the young girl and spends the book trying to be buddy and playful with the narrator to get them to see things from his view (as it's his memoir he's writing)
And the people who think for some reason it's a proper romance book need to be
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