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05-02-2005, 10:05 AM
| | |  Harry Potter: Good-Evil Titanomachy
The Harvard Independent has an interesting article about the trends in Harry Potter and features a mock review of ' Half-Blood Prince.' Quote:
Face it: come 12:01 a.m. July 16, Jesus is once again going to be kicked unceremoniously into second place by a heretical pubescent, and his creator, having recently surpassed the Queen of England, will become wealthier than God. You should get on her good side.
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Harry's murdered magical mentor is given the coveted voiceover-adviser role (ch. 31, "The Curse - Reversed!"), encouraging Harry to win the big battles he has no business winning, with stupid zingers that sound like "use the Force". And if you're interested in pursuing that line of influence, I'm not going to give it all away - but think: Voldemort, long-ago killer of Harry's parents, causing him to be shacked in the boonies, like another lucrative hero of note...or dark father himself??
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Do you remember what happened in The Sorcerer's Stone? Very little, actually, from the perspective of the last two tomes. Harry is revealed to be a wizard. Harry visits Diagon Alley. Harry goes to school and solves a surprisingly minor mystery. Harry returns home for the summer.
And yet it was intoxicating, just to explore Rowling's weird space at leisure, without the rush of Voldemort predation or dark prophecies from the past. Is magical Hogwarts being displaced by something as mundane as World War II? It wouldn't be the first such conquest; some charged The Lord of the Rings with being a thinly-veiled allegory of the same conflict. It's also, to judge from the trailer, the direction in which the Star Wars machine is lumbering. Even His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman's fascinating trilogy that was held up as the thinking boy's Harry Potter, succumbed in the end to a strange version of the apocalypse.
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05-02-2005, 10:09 AM
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| | Demiguise
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 thats a good article!I like the first quote the best!
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05-02-2005, 11:12 AM
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| | Mooncalf
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 ha ha that's a funny article!
there's me thinking that harvard would be too serious for harry potter
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05-02-2005, 11:24 AM
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| | Grindylow
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Oh brother...
"Face it: come 12:01 a.m. July 16, Jesus is once again going to be kicked unceremoniously into second place by a heretical pubescent, and his creator, having recently surpassed the Queen of England, will become wealthier than God. You should get on her good side. "
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05-02-2005, 12:18 PM
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| | Niffler
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Eh what?
It's too early in the morning for people's poke at Harry...
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05-02-2005, 01:01 PM
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Everyone is entitled to their opinion... I have heard allusion to the nazi temperment of that of the pure-bloods before. Nothing too new.
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05-02-2005, 02:43 PM
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|  Chizpurfle
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That parts of article are really fascinating. I`m going to register and read it whole.
Very "clever" article, I`d say.
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05-02-2005, 02:51 PM
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| | Poltergeist
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It's not really poking fun. Just making comparisons between Potter and other big fantasy names. No-one can deny that they do have strong correlations.
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05-02-2005, 03:54 PM
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Sue me. I didnt understand one word. | |
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05-02-2005, 04:15 PM
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| | Faerie
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Good article.
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05-02-2005, 07:02 PM
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hmm, interesting aritcle. harvard and harry potter, who'd of thunk?
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05-02-2005, 07:14 PM
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| | Banshee
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"Face it: come 12:01 a.m. July 16, Jesus is once again going to be kicked unceremoniously into second place by a heretical pubescent, and his creator, having recently surpassed the Queen of England, will become wealthier than God. You should get on her good side. "
LO that mde me chuckle.. hahaha
thanx emm
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05-02-2005, 07:57 PM
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| | Bundimun
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That first quote is pretty freaky. Also, I don't think J.K. Rowling is purposely trying to make Harry Potter the same as WWII or whatever. And she's not randomly pulling new books out of thin air. She had a plan for all seven from the beginning. It's not a story about nothing like whoever wrote that article said.
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05-02-2005, 08:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Mrs.Lily Everyone is entitled to their opinion... I have heard allusion to the nazi temperment of that of the pure-bloods before. Nothing too new. Me too, it's on JK's site. Quote:
Originally Posted by Marcella_Riddle It's not really poking fun. Just making comparisons between Potter and other big fantasy names. No-one can deny that they do have strong correlations.  No one noticed it before?
I've noticed correlations between all fantasy books I've read.
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05-02-2005, 08:32 PM
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No one noticed it before?
No I meant nobody can deny they're similar.
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05-02-2005, 08:46 PM
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Lol, very funny!
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05-02-2005, 09:17 PM
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hmm...interesting...but funny | |
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05-02-2005, 09:20 PM
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I thought the first quot was hillarious. You can tell he used a theasaurus ( it looks like I need a dictionary) well good job to him for doing a compare and contrast essay just like every english 101 college class. I have always thought that HP had a cartan WWII/ starwars approach. Im going to see if I can read the whole article. 
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05-02-2005, 09:34 PM
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teehee gotta love those Har  vard kids!
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05-02-2005, 09:38 PM
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I loved that first quote.
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05-02-2005, 09:38 PM
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"mr fli... u dont understand"
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05-02-2005, 10:07 PM
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intersting article..
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05-02-2005, 10:22 PM
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I thought it was funny... but then I have an odd sense of humor :\
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05-02-2005, 10:49 PM
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| | Faerie
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great article!
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05-02-2005, 11:13 PM
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it's funny but i don't really agree with it...
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