most fans: please creators tell us more canon information please
harry potter fans: we will pay you to Stop.
J K Rowling back on her bullshit
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J K Rowling back on her bullshit
"Believe me, there’s nothing so terrible that someone won’t support it."
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Re: J K Rowling back on her bullshit
Ok, Fuzzy. I know almost nothing of Harry Potter. I read the first...3 and halfish books?...way back when. They were fine, but nothing I felt compelled to continue with. I remember Quiddich having rules that made NO sense from any kind of game play perspective. Outside of that...not much.
What is Rowling doing now that has fans so annoyed?
What is Rowling doing now that has fans so annoyed?
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Um, what's the point of this post? Not getting it?
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JK Rowling is a fantastic example of what happens when you have so much money and fame that you literally do not need to listen to anyone at all whilst simultaneously having an army of corporate yes men and fans that will go to war to protect you. Add to that that she is clearly her own editor and her non-Harry Potter career failed to gain any traction at all and you have someone who really has no one to stop her.Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 6:53 pm most fans: please creators tell us more canon information please
harry potter fans: we will pay you to Stop.
And you can see this in the rushed nature of the final Potter book imo. The Deathly Hallows themselves were amazingly poor in their set-up. So much so that they come off as backing herself into a corner after Dumbledore and Grindelwald (who were the only two who had been set up to be approaching his level of power in the previous six books) were killed off and instead needed an asspull to allow Harry any chance at all to win. The Peverall brothers should have been introduced as a throwaway line MUCH earlier and a little bit more made of how unusual Harry's perfect invisibility cloak is instead of just having Ron in this book go ''oh, hey, always thought that your cloak was odd. My bad for not pointing it out sooner.''
I don't even need to put in any effort at all to rewrite the series to include these things: Book 2, Harry visits the Weasleys, have him inquire about Ron's nursery rhyme book. Book 4, Harry visits the Weasleys again, have Hermione read the book and make an off-hand observation about the Hallows. Boom, done. That is Chekovs Gun done and dusted.
PS - Ron, a boy established as not being that book smart, who was heavily stressed out at the time over his sister being kidnapped, being able to imitate Parseltongue after hearing it once five years ago ranks as one of the most ridiculous things I have ever read in a major release.
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A shapeshifting woman? Or was she transformed into a snake at some point? Or is the whole snake thing forgotten, and now she's a woman for all intents and purposes? Or is she a Naga or something now?clearspira wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:14 pm Nagini (Voldemort's snake) is a woman now. An actual woman. And it is bullshit that this was not alluded to even slightly throughout any of the scenes that she was in previously.
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I don't think anyone knows yet, I may be wrong.TGLS wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:21 pmA shapeshifting woman? Or was she transformed into a snake at some point? Or is the whole snake thing forgotten, and now she's a woman for all intents and purposes? Or is she a Naga or something now?clearspira wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:14 pm Nagini (Voldemort's snake) is a woman now. An actual woman. And it is bullshit that this was not alluded to even slightly throughout any of the scenes that she was in previously.
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I just hope this means progressive activists will stop quoting Harry Potter, claiming to be part of Dumbledore's army and comparing Trump to Voldemort.
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Here we go!clearspira wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:29 pmI don't think anyone knows yet, I may be wrong.TGLS wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:21 pmA shapeshifting woman? Or was she transformed into a snake at some point? Or is the whole snake thing forgotten, and now she's a woman for all intents and purposes? Or is she a Naga or something now?clearspira wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:14 pm Nagini (Voldemort's snake) is a woman now. An actual woman. And it is bullshit that this was not alluded to even slightly throughout any of the scenes that she was in previously.
SourceKotaku wrote:Nagini, Voldemort’s pet snake and a macguffin late in the series, has been revealed to be an East Asian woman that was cursed to be a snake.
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Ugh...TGLS wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 10:40 pmHere we go!clearspira wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:29 pmI don't think anyone knows yet, I may be wrong.TGLS wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:21 pmA shapeshifting woman? Or was she transformed into a snake at some point? Or is the whole snake thing forgotten, and now she's a woman for all intents and purposes? Or is she a Naga or something now?clearspira wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:14 pm Nagini (Voldemort's snake) is a woman now. An actual woman. And it is bullshit that this was not alluded to even slightly throughout any of the scenes that she was in previously.SourceKotaku wrote:Nagini, Voldemort’s pet snake and a macguffin late in the series, has been revealed to be an East Asian woman that was cursed to be a snake.