I loathe, loathe, *loathe* JKR. I wouldn't mind her so much if she was clever enough to have written a series where the mindset of terrorists (join a secret society led by mystic beardy guy who turned out have, let us say, questionable motives but follow him nevertheless because beardy fuhrer type is 'all that stands between Us and Evuhl. Believe that a quarter of the population is Evuhl. Train a sekrit army to fight against Teh Evuhl. Find out that beardy Glorious Leader wants you to die in Glorious Fight Against Evuhl and mindlessly do so because the Glorious Beardy Guy said so and besides, you will be awarded with 72 virgins in the afterlife. Uh, okay, no 72 virgins for Harry - he wouldn't know what to do with *one* virgin anyway. Perhaps release his chestmonster at her? - but he *does* get cheered on by his 'beloved dead' on the way to his Revenge/Doom.)
As I said, if JKR had *wanted* to write a handbook on How to become a Mindless Soldier/Suicide Bomber againt Teh Evuh Fill In The Blank Space, then I would've admired her. I would've hated her ethics, but I would've admired her balls. But she doesn't even understand what she has wrote. She honestly thinks that an obnoxious, self-obsessed teenager who sits on his effing ass the whole time, emoting about how sorry he feels for himself is a hero. A teenager who for seven years never learned an effing thing about his world, about the people in it nor about himself. A teenager who wouldn't know selfreflection if it fell unto his pointed head. JKR seems to think that 'love' is nagging and fighting (Lily and the Weasleys) and that 'justice' means permanently disfiguring the face of teenagers. She actually seems to think that there are people who are 'tainted' by 'bad blood' and who will therefore never be any good, no matter what they do, but there are also people who are born 'good', no matter how churlish, cruel, thoughtless, thoughtlessly brutal, stupid and lazy they behave.
The whole series reads like a giant parody. It stamps on every moral and ethic I've been brought up with and turns it on its head. And again, if she had *meant* it to be a parody, I would've admired her cleverness, but the scary thing is that this.. this.. *travesty* is actually how the woman sees the world. And we made her a multi-millionaire. How sick is *that*?
Major ranting against JKR - if you like the woman, don't read
I loathe, loathe, *loathe* JKR.
I wouldn't mind her so much if she was clever enough to have written a series where the mindset of terrorists (join a secret society led by mystic beardy guy who turned out have, let us say, questionable motives but follow him nevertheless because beardy fuhrer type is 'all that stands between Us and Evuhl. Believe that a quarter of the population is Evuhl. Train a sekrit army to fight against Teh Evuhl. Find out that beardy Glorious Leader wants you to die in Glorious Fight Against Evuhl and mindlessly do so because the Glorious Beardy Guy said so and besides, you will be awarded with 72 virgins in the afterlife. Uh, okay, no 72 virgins for Harry - he wouldn't know what to do with *one* virgin anyway. Perhaps release his chestmonster at her? - but he *does* get cheered on by his 'beloved dead' on the way to his Revenge/Doom.)
As I said, if JKR had *wanted* to write a handbook on How to become a Mindless Soldier/Suicide Bomber againt Teh Evuh Fill In The Blank Space, then I would've admired her. I would've hated her ethics, but I would've admired her balls. But she doesn't even understand what she has wrote. She honestly thinks that an obnoxious, self-obsessed teenager who sits on his effing ass the whole time, emoting about how sorry he feels for himself is a hero. A teenager who for seven years never learned an effing thing about his world, about the people in it nor about himself. A teenager who wouldn't know selfreflection if it fell unto his pointed head.
JKR seems to think that 'love' is nagging and fighting (Lily and the Weasleys) and that 'justice' means permanently disfiguring the face of teenagers. She actually seems to think that there are people who are 'tainted' by 'bad blood' and who will therefore never be any good, no matter what they do, but there are also people who are born 'good', no matter how churlish, cruel, thoughtless, thoughtlessly brutal, stupid and lazy they behave.
The whole series reads like a giant parody. It stamps on every moral and ethic I've been brought up with and turns it on its head. And again, if she had *meant* it to be a parody, I would've admired her cleverness, but the scary thing is that this.. this.. *travesty* is actually how the woman sees the world. And we made her a multi-millionaire. How sick is *that*?