Oh, and also
Jul. 21st, 2007 02:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
farlaThe book sucked.
I mean, at various points I kept stopping and thinking I'd made a mistake and fallen for one of those fanfics, because the stuff was like someone slavishly copying existing books mixed with fanon speculation, but it matched the lines I found mentioned from the original leak and was written in longwinded style and matched the reviews based on the original leak.
And I should point out that I speed read the book with my brain on complete hold, not thinking about anything. To put this in perspective, I picked up book three, ran into Remus Lupin, thought "lupin, lupus, remus founder of rome yeah I bet that's one of her fitting important names" and then did not figure out he was a werewolf until the announcement by dint of not processing anything in the book or making any effort to figure it out. (Even more precisely, it wasn't even "figure out" since I hadn't paid enough attention to think of it as a mystery) My hate for Harry Potter and the unending bad writing appears only when anyone tries to actually discuss it as being legitimate, at which point I will pull up the text from where it is buried in my brain and rage about how Fred and George's behavior is sociopathic, Slytherin are coded evil and she went halfway back on it when people bitched, the romance was thrown together to get back at her fans, Harry Potter's behavior in the fifth book is not "a great portrayal of typical teenager" and dismissing teenagers complaining about it as such is the height of insanity, there's no way wizards can be living embedded in muggle society with regular muggleborn wizards added yet remain unaware of everything, she's obviously making up half of this as she goes along, she treats magic like it's been around for five minutes and everyone else is incapable of seeing out of the glass box (because a bunch of DUMBASS SCHOOL KIDS are the only ones who ever thought that magic super luck might be useful before a battle). But only when it's brought up. I read at breakneck pace and process nothing and usually end with kind of an "eh".
So you can imagine just how absurd things have to be for me to notice them.
(Those of you who like the books may take this as a ringing endorsement. But understand I think you are insane and/or evil.)
I mean, at various points I kept stopping and thinking I'd made a mistake and fallen for one of those fanfics, because the stuff was like someone slavishly copying existing books mixed with fanon speculation, but it matched the lines I found mentioned from the original leak and was written in longwinded style and matched the reviews based on the original leak.
And I should point out that I speed read the book with my brain on complete hold, not thinking about anything. To put this in perspective, I picked up book three, ran into Remus Lupin, thought "lupin, lupus, remus founder of rome yeah I bet that's one of her fitting important names" and then did not figure out he was a werewolf until the announcement by dint of not processing anything in the book or making any effort to figure it out. (Even more precisely, it wasn't even "figure out" since I hadn't paid enough attention to think of it as a mystery) My hate for Harry Potter and the unending bad writing appears only when anyone tries to actually discuss it as being legitimate, at which point I will pull up the text from where it is buried in my brain and rage about how Fred and George's behavior is sociopathic, Slytherin are coded evil and she went halfway back on it when people bitched, the romance was thrown together to get back at her fans, Harry Potter's behavior in the fifth book is not "a great portrayal of typical teenager" and dismissing teenagers complaining about it as such is the height of insanity, there's no way wizards can be living embedded in muggle society with regular muggleborn wizards added yet remain unaware of everything, she's obviously making up half of this as she goes along, she treats magic like it's been around for five minutes and everyone else is incapable of seeing out of the glass box (because a bunch of DUMBASS SCHOOL KIDS are the only ones who ever thought that magic super luck might be useful before a battle). But only when it's brought up. I read at breakneck pace and process nothing and usually end with kind of an "eh".
So you can imagine just how absurd things have to be for me to notice them.
(Those of you who like the books may take this as a ringing endorsement. But understand I think you are insane and/or evil.)
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Date: 2007-07-31 11:12 am (UTC)MA: That sort of shuts down Heir of Gryffindor [theories], as well.
JKR: [Pause.] Yeah. Well - yeah.
That sort of disproves it, but JKR has been known to change her plans after interviews. If he were related to Gryffindor then it probably would have been in the book somewhere anyway like the way Voldemort is related to Slytherin is part of the plot.
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Date: 2007-08-02 01:32 pm (UTC)The interviewer asks if Harry's grandparents were murdered because he's the heir of Gryffindor. JRK immediately explains clearly that his grandparents died natural wizarding deaths. The interviewer then says that this shuts down the theories, and JRK gives a stammered, vague agreement where it sounds like she was about to clarify, but decided not to.
Subtle.