One thing I have noticed about the Harry Potter stuff. People who are tuned into and follow politics don’t read or watch the garbage. What could this mean?
Beg pardon? Are you saying that people following politics don't read/enjoy Harry Potter?
To paraphrase Hagrid, you really shouldn'ta said that...
Garbage about jibberish passes for literature today.
I would like to add to your data sample set- I am a freeper since the beginning, and can tell you how often the news broke here first THEN appeared on the major newscasts.
And I have read the Harry Potter books several times, for myself and for my children.
My husband and I both love Harry Potter and are extremely
addicted to politics. I think that the vile Delores Umbridge
has much in common with Hilary Clinton. And I’ve always
thought of Bill Clinton as Voldemort although Mr. V bears
an uncanny resemblence to James Carville.
Wife O’Buckhead
That you don't know very many people?
The creation of a fictional world allows one almost unlimited room for social commentary. Observe Gulliver's Travels which was scathing social commentary.
J.K. Rowlings does quite a bit of commentary on society, things which are appropriate to any time or age, but especially our own.
Evil is real and MUST be confronted. (ISLAMOFASCISM)
Ignoring the problem will make it worse not better. (Edwards and his ‘its a bumper sticker inanity’)
Evil cannot be appeased in the hopes that it will take you last. (Proff. Slughorn and others)
Pacifism is the worst sort of complicity with evil. ( High Inquisitor Umbridge)
Greater love hath no man than to lay down his life for his fellows. (Jesus is Lord)
Immortal lessons, especially applicable to our times. Also a good read and a good time with fun characters. What more do you want from a book?
That they prefer their fantasy in a slightly less realistic form? ;)
It could mean you are an unobservant idiot.
Look around. This is a POLITICAL website.
Now go look up Harry Potter as a keyword.
I suspect you were trying to make a point and badly missed - want to try again?
You really should take Politicalmom’s advice and try to know a little about which you are speaking before you go and show your butt to the world.
Also, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a deeply political work. I’ve used it to edumacate my kids on how liberal politicians think, and how to circumvent them...
Could mean you’re painting with too broad a brush. I follow politics and have read all seven books, and seen all five [as of now] movies. And while it isn’t “Lord of the Rings”, it isn’t ‘garbage’.
That you associate with boring people?
As someone who is keenly interested in politics and hasn’t started reading the Harry Potter books or seen any of the Harry Potter movies (except for a few minutes here and there on TV), I haven’t the slightest idea what it could mean.
I take it you’ve never seen a 500-response Potter thread on this here political forum.
How you managed to miss them is beyond me.
Huh? I read the early books and have seen each of the movies once (and usually it was the only movie I watched all year — I’m not big on movie-watching, because I’m too busy “following politics” and doing other important stuff). The later books were just too long, but I would have read them if I’d had time, and will probably get to them eventually (like when I’m retired). I plan to see the future movies.
It mans that you either need to pay more attention or pay attention less selectively. I've read all seven books, setting aside Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals temporarily to read the last one.
Your ""observation" is silly on its face, just based on the number of columnists, professional political observers, who have plumbed the book for liberal or conservative principles, or even for cryptic parallels to the Iraq war.
I find that I agree with Dennis Prager. Those who have no interests beyond politics are boring.
You're right. Nobody on FreeRepublic would bother reading or watching that garbage. That must be the reason that there haven't been any threads about HP on Free Republic.
Mark
Do I need a "/sarcasm?" I've read all the books, seen all the movies, and enjoy Jim Dale's performance on the audio books: I'm listening to "Prisoner of Askaban" right now at work. Some of you may have noticed that I'm a little bit interested in politics...
Well a few things come to mind, first being what universe could someone live in to make a comment like this?
Then an old Mark Twain quote and an old proverb that say much the same things.
"It is often better to keep one's mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt." --- Mark Twain
Or another version
"It's better to be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and prove it." - old proverb