Lots of Harry Potter News

[rattlesnakeroot]

I've been out of things with a bad cold this holiday weekend, so I missed alot of news! So I'm putting all the news I could find into this one post

This is long so all of it is under the cut.

Comments

[aredwitch]

And Jason Isaacs makes such a lovely villain! Ginny and Harry, Snape and Lily don't work as romantic partners because romance writing is not JKR's strong suit. Even if Harry was Lily's son, he looks exactly like his father(except for the eyes), the man who stole her from Snape.

[rattlesnakeroot]

It's true that Harry is supposed to look like James, but right after DH came out people were struck by the fact that in Harry is described as having long hair when he is on the run, and several artists on DeviantArt have drawn a very Snape-like Harry kneeling over the body of Snape.

Look... At... Me... by ~TomScribble on deviantART

[kamion]

I saw the first piece of that claymotion.
and although it is clever done and an awefull lot of work
I would not even start to dream about,
such a litery 100% canon faithfull performance is utterly boring after a few minutes.
"thanks god WB screws the canon from every angle possible": I am tempting to say.
When you want to see what the canon tells you: Read the book
When you want to see the movie walk on its own legs: Forget the canon
That was the thought that lingered, not how artfull it was done.

[ms_arithmancer]

I hope you will be feeling better soon

[rattlesnakeroot]

Please don't judge all Literature teachers by that guy! Take it from me - most literature professors I've known are not snobs about what they read. Most of them read modern books and include them in their classes, and as time goes by there are fewer and fewer of these purists who think Literature died in the 19th century.

And you are so right about Tennyson and all the poets - people wanted those books for the language, the rhyme, the sound, and the story. The music! This guy thinks it's because Tennyson was famous - no! He became famous because he appealed to the people, just as Shakespeare did! Shakespeare was certainly an influence on every British poet and he was also wrote plays! People used to have poetry recitations was for the drama and acting, not the fact that they wanted to sit around analyzing fine poetry.

[ms_arithmancer]

He's not, actually, one of those snobs that thinks literature died in the 19th century. I get the impression that he would consider some writers in Oprah's list "good literature", his objection to her book club seems to be not *what* they read, but what he sees as the shallowness of the discussions that ensue. Note his wish that Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" (a novel of the 1970's) be owned by every middle class family in America. I have no opinion on the merits of that novel, having never read it, but Wikipedia describes it as "an epic postmodern novel" which is "frequently digressive ... subverts many of the traditional elements of plot and character development, traverses detailed, specialist knowledge drawn from a wide range of disciplines, and has earned a reputation as a "difficult" book." Which description, by the way, makes it highly unlikely I will ever try it, LOL. Difficult's not a problem, it can hardly be less so than reading 19th century lit in French, for example, but I've never felt a need to subvert plot and character

[rattlesnakeroot]

Let's just say that guy is wrong, wrong, wrong!

I've tried Thomas Pynchon's books back when I was in college. Much too complex for me. I read for pleasure, not work.

That writer just seems to echo the idea that people have become "dumbed down" where literature is concerned, and that's just not true. If anything, the public schools stress literature from kindergarten up more than they did when I was in school.

news from the mousehole

[anonymous]

~nibbles~ Thought you might like to know that @12:23am, The Harry Potter Lexicon overtook Harry:A History in the Amazon.com rankings.The fandom's favorite BNF may be a changing.

Re: news from the mousehole

[lunas_ceiling]

We love you meeses to pieces, thanks =]

Re: news from the mousehole

[rattlesnakeroot]

Thank you, dear meeses! You just made my day. :)

[shyfoxling]

So she's come back with an essay trying to prove her point that their relationship was "developed."

Um. Okay. Not to get ad hominem about it, but how old is this person herself?

"...I could never see Snape as the ultimate love-lorn hero -- sure, he risked a lot in Lily Potter's memory, but his love apparently didn't extend to treating her only child with the kindness a truly sacrificial love would have demanded."Well, to play devil's advocate, there is a point there; Severus never exorcised all his demons, no, and whether or not he still hated Harry at the end (indeed, whether or not he ever truly hated him, although that's slightly outside the scope of this post), it seems he never did come to a place of even calm civility, much less kindness. Harry was, at the least, a serious psychological trigger for him, and that damage was never healed (and from Harry's perspective it does seem he didn't try; what was really the case, we can't quite know). But I don't see how all this invalidates the "sacrificial" nature of anything he did

[rattlesnakeroot]

That will definitely be a case of having a drink just before the movie! I need to find a designated driver before I go.

Great post - lots of excellent points. :)

[shyfoxling]

That will definitely be a case of having a drink just before the movie!

Easy to do if seeing the midnight show at Azkatraz. (Bars? In San Francisco? I must be joking.)

Develop this

[teaqueenie]

I don't really read Harry/Ginny as a developed relationship in any way. It's not completely unbelievable but I'd suggest Ron/Hermione as well-developed in the series. From the first book onward, there are overtones of Hermione as Molly and Ron as Arthur.

Snape portrays the classic version of unrequited love. He has chosen Lily, and though she has taken another, he will continue to love her and her memory. At one time, centuries ago, Snape would have been viewed as an expression of the highest form of love.

Hope you're feeling better, SIP.