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1 posted on 10/25/2007 11:08:55 AM PDT by Antoninus
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FYI...


2 posted on 10/25/2007 11:10:55 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans who support Rudy owe Bill Clinton an apology.)
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To: Antoninus
I've enjoyed your previous reviews, and I completely understand why you're stopping. On the whole, I've thought that Rowling did a petty good job with the books and I thought that she was making at least some attempt (not always successful) to get across a decent moral message.

I was deeply unhappy with the Dumbledore announcement. So uncessary. Such a poke in the eye. So disappointing.

3 posted on 10/25/2007 11:15:24 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
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A Catholic Homeschool Father Won't Bother to Review the Rest of the Harry Potters

LOL! I wouldn't either.

5 posted on 10/25/2007 11:19:22 AM PDT by darkangel82 (And the band played on....)
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To: Antoninus
a brazen attempt to be culturally relevant. there is not a hint of homo in the entire series and she does this? next week the series will be a parable about the dangers of global warming and the week after that it will be that Voldemort is actually AIDS.

she pretty much ruined her books acceptance to millions of readers by becoming political retroactively.

7 posted on 10/25/2007 11:21:17 AM PDT by GeronL
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So in other words, had Rowling made the statement about Dumbledore a few weeks ago it would have saved him from reading books 1 thru 5?


8 posted on 10/25/2007 11:21:17 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: marshmallow

You were right all along....


10 posted on 10/25/2007 11:23:16 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans who support Rudy owe Bill Clinton an apology.)
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When and where are we going to have the book burning?


22 posted on 10/25/2007 11:52:14 AM PDT by GreenOgre (mohammed is the false prophet of a false god.)
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No one can accuse you of not giving the books a fair reading.

For some reason, my daughters have never been interested in the series so I never started reading it.


24 posted on 10/25/2007 12:04:16 PM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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I consider myself a fairly astute reader but I didn't pick up on any "butt lust connection" between Dumbledore and the Dark Wizard, Grindelwald.

However, given Rowling's statement above, I guess I wasn't astute enough in my reading here given that I'm generally not prone to assume that two male characters who are friends are actually doing more with their wands than just casting spells. But hey, maybe I'm just old fashioned.

That says it all.

34 posted on 10/25/2007 12:44:13 PM PDT by dragonblustar (Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God - G. K. Chesterton)
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