Why no Harry Potter, eh?

[sweettalkeress.livejournal.com]

So I looked at ONTD's "Ten of the most Epidemically Overrated Books," and was incensed to find that books like On the Road and The Great Gatsby made the list but the Harry Potter series didn't (though at least the Twilight series did). I mean really, Harry Potter is the epitome of an overrated book series, given that there are people seriously making the point that it's so deep and meaningful and needs to be read in AP English classes. Never mind that it's a children's book series!

Well, these were the people who said that a bunch of authors besides Rowling disliked the idea of fanfiction without bothering to consider WHY they might feel that way (specifically, that Rowling is the only one who's all that fandom savvy because she's modern in a way that the others aren't). Maybe they just think Rowling is their darling author too, and you can't say anything bad about her.

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[ladyzenobia.livejournal.com]

It would be easy to throw in a reference to some other activity. A Quidditch teammate worrying about a schedule conflict with another club.

We did have that. In OotP, I think when Harry thanked Angelina for accepting Ron to the team and Angelina said that there was some guy who flew better but who also had charms club and said that if it came to a conflict he preferred charms. The whole thing was treated as a joke. Silly kid with his charms club acting like it's more important than quidditch. Oh well...

[nx74defiant.livejournal.com]

That does seem to be JK attitude about anyone who cares about something that she doesn't. They are dismissed as being silly to care about such a dumb thing.