| Random Thoughts On... J.K.Rowling and the Fans |
| J.K. Rowling has created one of the most successful book series in a long time. The Harry Potter books. And movies. And collectibles, and notebooks, etc. etc. Mrs Rowling is the richest woman in Great Britain. She�s richer than the Queen. And she has kind of a strange relationship with her fans. I went to www.jkrowling.com some time ago, just because I was curious (and thought maybe the page could confirm the title of Book 6), and I stumbled across an entry in �Daily News� that really put a broad grin on my face. I cite: �Mugglenet Chatroom Uninterested in JKRs Theories� Well... who cares? The internet enables anyone to pose as anybody, so why should anybody believe that you�re really JKR? But this is my favourite: �Although I was concerned to find that many of the moderators feel their spiritual home is Slytherin, this is a great site.� Excuse me. There may be 4 houses, but which ones get portrayed all the time? Gryffindor and Slytherin. And as many, many HP fans are female, Professor McGonagall isn�t exactly a sex symbol. Professor Snape, on the other hand, is. So are Draco and Lucius Malfoy, especially after the movies. And � the bad guys always are sexier and more interesting than the nice guys. Snape is sexy. He�s dangerous and he�s a big secret. Draco is a cutie, and he�s rich. And Lucius (I almost wrote Lucious...) is just hot. You just picked the wrong actors, honey. Harry isn�t. Neither is Ron, or Fred and George. And Percy certainly isn�t. And which other guys are there to swoon about? None. And � green and black are just way better than red and gold. And my second-biggest peeve: �I would like to take this opportunity to say that the practice of calling Lord Voldemort �Voldie� must stop, as must the insistence that with a bit of therapy �Voldie� would be a real sweetheart.� We call Voldemort �Voldie� for fun. Doesn�t mean we�re not taking him seriously. We take him very seriously. We also call Severus �Sevvie�. So what? Personally, I think that he�d stay a filthy evil bastard after a brainwashing session, but that�s just me. I�m not big on the redemptionista movement. But what the heck. As long as cutie Voldie stays out of MY fics, I have nothing to bitch about. |
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