Posted on 02/02/2014 10:08:44 AM PST by null and void
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The people with the strongest opinions about the Harry Potter series are invariably the very ones who are the most (and deliberately so!) ignorant as to the actual contents of the books.
Signs of the times . . .
Isaiah 5:20
20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Why mess stuff up after its done?
I know she hated the Ron character but now I think she must have a mental disorder
How many books did you sell last year???
There was nothing really original in the stories either
The most magical thing about the whole series?
She manages to make learning magic seem like drudgery, and the results more awkward and roundabout than the muggle ways of accomplishing the same goals.
are you sure this isn’t really a nut job conspiracy thread??
Then JK Rowling must be the most ignorant of the series.
heh
Only a muggle would think that...
Just because his name is on the title doesn’t mean he HAS to kill the big bad, Harry’s the POV character but there’s nothing that says he couldn’t have Jack Burtoned. The fact that Neville fulfills the prophecy at least as well as Harry is even discussed in the book, and unlike Harry he lived with what Voldie had done his whole life, all that time Harry thought his parents died in a car accident Neville was brewing up hate. It would have been great to have Voldie coming in for the kill on a downed Harry and Nevil piths him with his wand. With Harry taking out so many horcruxes and Neville getting the kill they would have both fulfilled the prophecy, which works since they both hit on all elements of the prophecy up until actually taking out Voldie.
It’s one of the things that bugs me about the series, she went through all the trouble of making two characters that could fulfill the prophecy, even has Dumbledore discuss the fact that there’s no reason why Harry has to be the one, and then doesn’t use it. She doesn’t even use it to distract Voldie, all that work he puts into taking out Harry and it never occurs to him that other members of that Hogwarts class (and other schools) could have the same birthday as Harry and could have parents that got on the wrong side of him the first time around? There’s some definite lazy story telling in HP, and about half it revolves (or should have revolved) around Neville.
And where the verse on making crap up and calling things evil for reasons that have no bearing in fact?
Exactly, Hermoine and Harry both grew up lonely and one of the attractions to the Weasley siblings is that big rollicking family and wanting to be part of it.
They say men tend to marry women who resemble their mothers and Mrs. Weasley was very much like Hermoine, smart, dependable and capable of dispatching threats to their loved ones with extreme prejudice.
Yes, and more to the point anyone who read the series of poorly written drivel is a moron.
drat I have now been found out
I mean really, take Voldemort out with a drone strike or a nice pass by an AC-130.
By the way, didn’t Rowling say the entire reason she wrote so that ten years later, when the kids grew up, gay marriage would be legalized?
Just because I don’t write doesn’t mean I can’t point out faults. Hell I’m in the fault pointing out business, software QA, and I’m very good at my job. And given how horribly her latest book bombed, she might actually want to read some criticisms and improve her game. She’s an OK writer, told a good tale, could have told it better, should have probably let her editor do more editing (middle 300 pages of book 6 anyone), and definitely has room to grow. It’s a statement of how her career is going that she has two books out in the last two years and the way she gets headlines is to give an interview about her series that ended 7 years ago.
The kids spend years learning what to do in order to generate a particular desired effect, and the theory behind it.
You could visualize Hogwarts as an engineering school.
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