I Don't Know

[mike_smith]

Had someone else get fired from my job last week. This time it was a new hire who, according to the scuttlebutt, refused to take the drug test. I don't know if it's true or not, although I have to admit, I can't imagine a lot of other ways to get yourself fired less than a month into a new job. Refusal to take a drug test has happened before in

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[tekalynn]

In the movie version of PoA, Hermione's slap was turned into a punch, something which irked a number of trufans, especially when JKR retconned the slap into a punch in book 6.

Lucius is that rarity in the Potterverse, an Involved Parent. Naturally that makes him Evil.

IIRC that in the Russian pastiche series based kindasorta on _Harry Potter_, the Quidditch-analogue game *is* played with dragons as the goalkeepers. Also, the heroine flies around on a magic cello. Don't ask me, I don't write these things.

[mike_smith]

Lucius is that rarity in the Potterverse, an Involved Parent. Naturally that makes him Evil.

I'm pretty sure he's evil because he's a Death Eater or whatever. And he's not an involved parent, he's an overinvolved parent. Asking the board of governors to investigate the matter is one thing, but everything past that has been this quixotic crusade to have some dumb animal put down just to compensate for his assuredly tiny dick

[remix17]

Indeed. Rather than feel guilty over Malfoy, he feels bad that Buckbeak is going to die.

...priorities, man, priorities! At least Ron told it like it was.

[grapefruitzzz]

Post-movie retcon? Gah, I spent a whole academic essay in 2004 looking for signs of that and didn't find any. Typical of her to justify my work when it's too late. There was a great quote from David Thewlis where he said he tried to be extra-nice to her when he met her so she'd write a good part for him in Book 6 - and he gets the hot chick!

[jim_smith]

Post-movie retcon? Gah, I spent a whole academic essay in 2004 looking for signs of that and didn't find any.

You wha...?

[redcoast]

Ha ha. Harry Potter fans.

[jim_smith]

It's even funnier because my brother was there.

[redcoast]

So, was he the one man in the room who spends the entire session staring at the carpet or one of the guys who raised his hand when the speaker asked who had read or written bestiality?

[jim_smith]

Beats me, but suckas gots to know. Mike?

[grapefruitzzz]

The relationship between author and reader during the course of a serial work is quite interesting. Is the writer influenced by the opinions of critics and other readers between volumes? Does the possibility of such interpolation make the owrk less 'pure', in a classical sense? Does it bolster the claim by Barthes that the reader and writer are, in a sense, interchangeable since each reader interprets a text in the light of hir own experiences, it follows that each 'reading' is in effect a form of re-writing; hence "the death of the authro". Surely the gap between volumes of an incomplete narrative allows for further and deeper interpolations of reader intent and idiolectic semiotics than with the classic pattern of the lonely-written novel?

etc for about 15000 words.

[jim_smith]

OK, you wrote about the general issue and then used the Harry Potter series as an example. That makes sense. I was imagining a thesis consisting of stuff like "OMG Harry holds the wand in his right hand in PoA pp. 74 but Daniel Radcliffe is holding it in his right hand in PoA Act II scene 3!"

[grapefruitzzz]

It interested me since I was fifteen and reading '2000AD' in the newsagent's on the way home from school. Also the huge changes TV fans can make to a story is pretty interesting, but hard to cover academically. I started the damn thing without realising that authors usually pretend they have the whole story made up already in their heads even when it's not true. HP is great because the cleverness of the fans outstrips the original material so much you can almost ignore it.