Well, well, lookie here....

[sweettalkeress.livejournal.com]

I was perusing TwilightSucks awhile ago, and came across this little gem, detailing why Bella Swan is a good match for Draco Malfoy. You can read the madness below:

http://twilight-sucks.livejournal.com/1584746.html

I nearly burst out laughing when I read the line: "Draco doesn't want friends. He wants fans and henchmen. Harry didn't fawn over him, and so their enmity was born." Seriously, that describes Harry more than anything!

And actually, no, Rowling would not write the story about Eric or Mike or whoever. Chances are, Eric and Mike would still be nobodies, just like Dean and Seamus. Harry is no everyman, after all- he's a self-absorbed jerkass Gary Stu just like Edward and Bella- he just hides it better!

Seriously, every so often someone will critique Twilight and immediately follow it up with "But Harry Potter is sooooo much better!" Newsflash: Just because it's better than Twilight... doesn't mean it's good!

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[oneandthetruth.livejournal.com]

(Skip two paragraphs.)

The important point here is not just the romance between orphan teenager and much older man itself, but also that said romance is clearly developing covertly at the same time their father/daughter relationship is developing overtly. In fact, in the same paragraph from which comes the reference to finishing each others’ sentences, Russell refers to "Holmes" as her "substitute father," and adds, "Looking back, I can admit to myself that even with my parents I had never been so happy, and not even with my father, who had been a most brilliant man, had my mind found so comfortable a fit, so smooth a mesh." (33) She continues, "If Holmes slid into the niche my father had occupied...." (34)

Having read the discussion about this book on King's Virtual Book Club site, I realize King's fans whitewash this relationship by insisting it was never really one of father and daughter at all, but rather master and apprentice, or mentor and mentee. As the above quotations make clear, these people are victims of their own ignorance and/or dishonesty.

Like the author herself, King's fans contradict themselves, gliding around the subliminal ugliness of this theme with a skill not normally seen outside of professional ballroom dance competitions. One of them wrote she never mentions the "Holmes"/Russell age difference when recommending the book, apparently fearing this would turn off potential cultists, I mean fans. Instead, she gives it to people with no warning, counting on the magic of the story and its teller to seduce the unwary. This is not unlike the practice of slipping LSD into the drinks of unsuspecting people in the 1960s and 1970s, which makes me wonder: If there's really nothing wrong with this relationship, as she stoutly asserts, why is she so afraid of mentioning it? Doesn't she believe in informed consent?

Silly me. Of course, she doesn’t. If she did, she wouldn’t be a fan of the Russell books in the first place.