I like the idea that the other kids kind of avoided Harry because he, you know, wore those enormous castoffs and kind of smelled funny and was rubbery pale. Oh, teeny Harry! Oh, I love you much more when abuse has consequences!
Dear JKR - please to go to edit and find on your manuscripts so you can count up how many fat jokes you make. Then decide not to make any public statements on body issues. You don't look silly, we don't have migraines. Everybody wins!
I fear I am lacking in snark in these early issues, since well, I do have an appreciation for the Dursleys but I also have a soft squishy heart that is sorry for Harry because, you know, this is a bad situation. He sleeps in a cupboard and is malnourished and this gang of kids beat him up whenever they can catch him! I mean, I'm fairly easy: little kid, gang that beat him up, you have me there. It's not until Harry arrives in magical land and everything always comes up trumps for him that I can be properly snarky. (There can only be so much dating the head cheerleader and being worshipped by half the school before I start feeling less with the sympathy, here.)
For instance, you know, if Harry had ever had to run from Draco and his entourage at the speed of light, I could drum up some 'yeah, I see why this is nearly as bad as the Dudley situation.' But how absurd! It is Draco who would be running! And he would trip up and people would see his undergarments!
Still, this chapter kind of make me proud of my baby. Man, if this thickset dude punched me in the face all the time and suddenly I was transported to a magic land where my schoolyard nemesis was kind of puny and liked to pull my pigtails, I would be overjoyed. But no, somehow Draco trumps Dudley! Draco FTW!
I guess either the protected in the Dursleys' home thing will be important in book 7, or Dumbledore used it as a pretext to put the child somewhere he would be abused and therefore malleable! Oh, that Dumbledore. Thinks of everything except raccoons. Wait, we don't have raccoons in England. Thinks of everything!
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Date: 2006-10-22 02:15 pm (UTC)Dear JKR - please to go to edit and find on your manuscripts so you can count up how many fat jokes you make. Then decide not to make any public statements on body issues. You don't look silly, we don't have migraines. Everybody wins!
I fear I am lacking in snark in these early issues, since well, I do have an appreciation for the Dursleys but I also have a soft squishy heart that is sorry for Harry because, you know, this is a bad situation. He sleeps in a cupboard and is malnourished and this gang of kids beat him up whenever they can catch him! I mean, I'm fairly easy: little kid, gang that beat him up, you have me there. It's not until Harry arrives in magical land and everything always comes up trumps for him that I can be properly snarky. (There can only be so much dating the head cheerleader and being worshipped by half the school before I start feeling less with the sympathy, here.)
For instance, you know, if Harry had ever had to run from Draco and his entourage at the speed of light, I could drum up some 'yeah, I see why this is nearly as bad as the Dudley situation.' But how absurd! It is Draco who would be running! And he would trip up and people would see his undergarments!
Still, this chapter kind of make me proud of my baby. Man, if this thickset dude punched me in the face all the time and suddenly I was transported to a magic land where my schoolyard nemesis was kind of puny and liked to pull my pigtails, I would be overjoyed. But no, somehow Draco trumps Dudley! Draco FTW!
I guess either the protected in the Dursleys' home thing will be important in book 7, or Dumbledore used it as a pretext to put the child somewhere he would be abused and therefore malleable! Oh, that Dumbledore. Thinks of everything except raccoons. Wait, we don't have raccoons in England. Thinks of everything!