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Rowling this week outed Dumbledore as being "gay".
Oh I bet she @!$%#ing did!
I hate this women.
I know hate is a strong word, but I do. I am not proud of it either. It's just how I feel about the chick. Why? Let me explain...
Let me start by saying that first and foremost I consider the Harry Potter works bordering upon plagiarised. Where from? Lets start with Lord of The Rings (monsters, high concepts), Star Wars (basic plot), The Worst Witch (downtrodden kid; nerdy kids love to empathise, something I am sure was a major element in Rowlings cynical plan right from the outset) - mix in Terry Pratchett's entire 'Unseen University' concept, for a summary of that check out Page 170 or there abouts in his novel "Equal Rites" - or as I like to call it 'the entire concept of Hogwarts' - I've shown this to people and they've been literally gobsmacked by the similarity's.
Not as gobsmacked however, as I am sure Pratchett was when he first read or heard about Potter though - the man is the king of paper back fantasy tat (with a hat) for decades and along comes Rowling - her literary guns (such as they are) aimed at kids and loaded with material Hollywood can churn out in movie form with relative ease. Played for and got, score one Rowling.
Pratchett did come back rather well with the 'Wee Free Men' et al., but at least those books teach some interesting lessons to kids - and were not motivated soley by greed as I am to explain I feel Rowlings writting is. I get the feeling they were more of a two fingers up to Rowling than a ploy to make the man more money. Score one Pratchett, congrats on the film deal.
Back to the point at hand, my feelings on Rowling's writing skill is summarized thus; if she handed the Potter books in as original works to many university's in the United States and they were thus entered into the national plagiarism database, quite simply they'd come up as plagiarised - if we must judge them on their own merit, they are at best completely derisive.
They are also written extremely badly. Like my articles. Not that that bugs me as much as the the non-owned up to plagiarism - if she admitted that a lot of her work was a homage to this or that, it wouldn't be so bad in my eyes - just extending a fine fantasy tradition (everyone owes something to Tolkien), but the arrogance of the women seems to think she can erase much of that which came before Potter - placing it in prime market position as the benchmark for all fantasy fiction (especially to those who hadn't read the genre previous to Potter), something which is put plainly; a lie. That gets my goat.
The Potter books do make great movies, I won't argue there - but they were supposed to. I am positive that was part of her financially driven money making plan in the first place!
Harry Potter was quite obviously her meal ticket, a function for which the formulaic epic has performed exceedingly well - however, despite this unprecedented and more importantly planned for, marketed for and written for, success, Rowling will still do almost anything to get some extra attention to her franchise.
"Dumbledore is gay," she says, adding he was smitten with rival Gellert Grindelwald, who he beat in a battle between good and bad wizards long ago.
Ok, If that's the case, and it's not, as I suspect, something you've just thought will get you some headlines and maybe a whole new demographic (Rowling appears to live for that) post the release of the final book, why the @!$%# was it not mentioned in the books?
Either Rowling,
a) you are making it up as you go along, and you thought this'd get some attention for you, and it is thus part of your overall cynical marketing plan.
or
b) you were too afraid to put a gay guy in a kids book for fear of certain more conservative interest groups going mad and boycotting your books (they would have, and they would have done it hard) - something you don't have to worry so much about now, because you have more money than God.
or
c) You planned to wait until every child who was going to buy all of your books had done, before announcing that one of the main characters was gay, and thus opening the franchise to a whole new market, ie. the gay community.
Which one of these people do you want to be Rowling? They are all pretty @!$%#ty.
Rowling is quoted as saying "I would have told you earlier if I knew it would make you so happy". Yeah sure, right, you didn't think that would make a bit of an impact? Stop playing dumb - this was yet another cunning marketing ploy. You're brilliant, I admit it, but you are too sly for even me luv...
Now the gay community will feel obliged to support her - the pink lobby now on board, is Rowling going to make a bid for real world power or what?! Seriously. Using fringe groups to expand your demographic influence is cynical beyond belief.
"Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell welcomed the news about Dumbledore and said: "It's good that children's literature includes the reality of gay people, since we exist in every society."
Pete, while I support your sentiment, gays are not "Jedi" or some secret society. "Existing in every society" is a bit of a dramatic way of saying some guys and gals have always liked guys and gals.
Perhaps he got caught up in the mysticism of Rowlings constructed, well arranged and marketed, magical world?
Just watch her the next time you see an interview. She hates kids - I think she even admitted that in an interview. She just wanted to get paid. She constructed, from bits of other stories - other peoples work, a plot and characters to facilitate this nefarious goal.
And that, is why I hate her.
She did it for the money, not for the drama, not for the story, not even for the kids. And I think if you are gonna write a kids book, you should probably, morally, have them in mind.
Not your bank balance.
You'll end up giving out a very twisted messege when they find out the person who wrote their hero's did it for the cash.
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{"commentId":4872402,"authorDomain":"ray-siya1"}
JKR's work has too many similarities with other works. Have a look:
1) 'The Legend of Rah and the Muggles' and 'Larry Potter and His Best Friend Lilly' authored by Nancy Kathleen Stouffer in 1984.
2) 'The Worst Witch' by Jill Murphy in 1974. This is the of The worst witch from wikipedia.
"The eponymous Mildred Hubble is the 'worst' student at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches. She is well-meaning but does things without thinking. The benevolent headmistress, Miss Cackle, is generally understanding, whereas Mildred's form teacher, the virago Miss Hardbroom thinks she just isn't trying hard enough.
Other characters in the books include Ethel Hallow and Mildred's friends, Maud Moonshine and Enid Nightshade. Maud is a rotund girl and more sensible than Mildred, although usually finds herself caught up in her friend's problems. Enid (introduced in the second book) is a practical joker who is more likely than Mildred to get them all into trouble. The three of them have a strong rivalry with Ethel Hallow, their high-born, snobbish and vindictive classmate."
3) 1980 movie Troll has a young boy named Harry Potter who discovers that he has magical powers and uses them to fight a troll.
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Too many similarities with to many books to be coincidence. Specially when she likes to take fullcredit of her 'whole life's work' and won't let any secondary work done on that. She also wanted to kill harry in last book so that nobody else can continue writing on this character.
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#26 - Sun Jan 18, 2009 4:56 PM EST{"commentId":4872416,"authorDomain":"ray-siya1"}
JKR's work has too many similarities with other works. Have a look:
1) 'The Legend of Rah and the Muggles' and 'Larry Potter and His Best Friend Lilly' authored by Nancy Kathleen Stouffer in 1984.
2) 'The Worst Witch' by Jill Murphy in 1974. This is the of The worst witch from wikipedia.
"The eponymous Mildred Hubble is the 'worst' student at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches. She is well-meaning but does things without thinking. The benevolent headmistress, Miss Cackle, is generally understanding, whereas Mildred's form teacher, the virago Miss Hardbroom thinks she just isn't trying hard enough.
Other characters in the books include Ethel Hallow and Mildred's friends, Maud Moonshine and Enid Nightshade. Maud is a rotund girl and more sensible than Mildred, although usually finds herself caught up in her friend's problems. Enid (introduced in the second book) is a practical joker who is more likely than Mildred to get them all into trouble. The three of them have a strong rivalry with Ethel Hallow, their high-born, snobbish and vindictive classmate."
3) 1980 movie Troll has a young boy named Harry Potter who discovers that he has magical powers and uses them to fight a troll.
You can check these links :
Too many similarities with to many books to be coincidence. Specially when she likes to take fullcredit of her 'whole life's work' and won't let any secondary work done on that. She also wanted to kill harry in last book so that nobody else can continue writing on this character.
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#27 - Sun Jan 18, 2009 4:58 PM EST{"commentId":4872537,"authorDomain":"ray-siya1"}
JKR's work has too many similarities with other works.
1) 'The Legend of Rah and the Muggles' and 'Larry Potter and His Best Friend Lilly' authored by Nancy Kathleen Stouffer in 1984.
2) 'The Worst Witch' by Jill Murphy in 1974. This is the of The worst witch from wikipedia.
"The eponymous Mildred Hubble is the 'worst' student at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches. She is well-meaning but does things without thinking. The benevolent headmistress, Miss Cackle, is generally understanding, whereas Mildred's form teacher, the virago Miss Hardbroom thinks she just isn't trying hard enough.
Other characters in the books include Ethel Hallow and Mildred's friends, Maud Moonshine and Enid Nightshade. Maud is a rotund girl and more sensible than Mildred, although usually finds herself caught up in her friend's problems. Enid (introduced in the second book) is a practical joker who is more likely than Mildred to get them all into trouble. The three of them have a strong rivalry with Ethel Hallow, their high-born, snobbish and vindictive classmate.
Murphy (who began writing The Worst Witch at the age of 15) based the Worst Witch books on her own experiences of school at Ursuline Convent in Wimbledon, England[2] with Singing becoming Chanting, Chemistry becoming Potions and so on."
3) 1980 movie Troll has a young boy named Harry Potter who discovers that he has magical powers and uses them to fight a troll.
Too many similarities with to many books to be coincidence. Specially when she likes to take fullcredit of her 'whole life's work' and won't let any secondary work done on that. She also wanted to kill harry in last book so that nobody else can continue writing on this character. She won't let a lexicon written on it and she will ban a set modelled aftre hogwarts castle being used in some relegious public festival in India. But then she will like public to use harry potter marchendise and read book if money is coming to her. If you want respect from public, their adoration and if you want to tag yourself brilliant (<rolls eyes>) writer by those who can't spot the literary differance in JRR Tolkien, then you should be ready to handle admiration like people modelling there huts and camps like hogwarts castle.
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#28 - Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:10 PM EST{"commentId":4872605,"authorDomain":"ray-siya1"}
Sorry it got posted thrice.. bad internet. I don't know how to delete extra post.
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#29 - Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:16 PM EST{"commentId":8501233,"authorDomain":"minniemoo100"}
Yes, there are some simalarities between those books and Harry Potter, and whether she did use them or not, does it really matter?
The difference between those books/films and Rowling's books, are the fact that Harry Potter is so complex, with many different story lines and plots, which tie in at the end. Each character has a personality so real. Harry Potter isn't just a hero- he has his faults too, Hermione isn't just a swot, and Ron isn't just a goon.
It is very easy to complain that she has used other author's ideas, but if she has used them, she has taken it to a much higher level.
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#30 - Wed Jul 29, 2009 6:48 AM EDT{"canLink":false,"threadId":"165415","isPrivate":false}
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