Life without Harry Potter

It's not so bad. I wonder if the hysteria of "No more Harry Potter!!!" isn't media driven. Well, d'uh. Anyway, we all knew it had to have an end. Rowling was always perfectly clear about that. And I'm not in mourning or anything. I don't think I'd want "Harry Potter (23) and the Battle of the Mice Brigade".

I like the stories v. well and have enjoyed reading them, but it's time for me to come clean and tell you what I won't miss:

I won't miss wondering why now-teenagers have such a thing about sugar. Yeah, yeah, I know - they're not interested in drugs (although this book sees Harry take a shot of "fyrewhiskey") but, still, it's nauseating how much sugar these kids eat. Makes my teeth ache. And I also want to know wtf a pumpkin pasty is (living in a state w/Cornish pasties, I do wonder).

I won't miss Hermione's intensity w/school (although, now that I think about it, I knew people like her especially in grade school). I won't miss her constantly getting on Harry's ass about every slightly risque thing he's thinking aobut doing. Whine, whine, whine and "oh, I'm OH SO DISAPPOINTED IN YOU HARRY!.... BUT GIVE ME YOUR HOMEWORK SO I CAN FINISH IT WHILE ROLLING MY EYES AT YOU AND RON!!!"

And I won't miss people either whispering/pointing at Harry, or girls giggling around him. I mean, jeez, you all live in a boarding school w/each other 24-7 - learn some fucking tact. And I seriously don't remember giggling at boys when I was in grade school/high school, and don't recall anyone who did. [Edit: for the record, I didn't giggle; I mooned hopelessly and talked constantly about them to my friends.]

And I don't miss Draco Malfoy's cackling at Harry and his friends all the time. They were fine while the kids were 11 and 12 but after that? LAME (I have to say that Harry got better at retorts, though). I can understand why there were Harry/Draco shippers: those two were obsessed with each other. OH, and has been said (even by kids): why do all the Slytherin kids have to be ugly assholes?

And, speaking of Slytherin, jeez, Snape, grow the fuck up. So Harry's dad was an asshole to you. You're dealing w/a kid and you're supposed to be the adult. Stop being such a jacknut.

So, that's what comes to mind.

I really did like Book 7, tho.

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regatomic.livejournal.com

of course it is,.. read under, "how to make sales",..o.o

likethebeer.livejournal.com

Well, yes. And there's this tendency, I guess, to be completely flummoxed by something that didn't start as a television phenomenon.

monkeypuncher.livejournal.com

Just so I'm clear on this... These books are still geared towards kids right? Or at the most young adult readers... Whatever that is supposed to mean.

I haven't read any of them yet. I was planning to read them for the first time with my own kids.

Written for kids [*blush*]. Probably 9-12; at least that's what Rowling has contended. Part of the issue, now that they're all out, is that really young children shouldn't be exposed to them because they might be interested to read all of them, and the later books become much darker, and possibly scary. As an example, Rowling refused to allow her oldest to read one until she was 10 years old.

Then again, I read The Shining and Salem's Lot when I was 11; altho I couldn't look out the windows at night for about 5 mo.s after reading Salem's Lot. And I did have to sleep w/all the lights on while reading The Exorcist around this time period, as well.

I see. They've become such a phenomenon, that I thought perhaps she'd upped the reading level. I'm sure I read far darker stuff at that age as well. It's like everyone on the subway is reading the new one right now.

I think the original intention was that they would sort of follow along with the age of the protagonists, so by the end, the readers & the audience are around 17. Of course, the first one was published 10 yaers ago, but obviously she didn't realize it would take that long to crank out all those pages & stories.

I think I just contradicted myself w/the "9-12" "up to 17" answers, so I might just have to have some food :)

It's her own fault for writing 600+ page books.

likethebeer