The best chapter by chapter breakdown of DH I've seen yet

[gillieweed.livejournal.com]

"Dan Hemmens says a lot of hilarious (and very true) things about DH."


Thanks to valis2 for this!

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[ellecain.livejournal.com]

LOL, I love how the mouse in question is going "She's not a Calvinist so there! That automatically makes your analysis redundant," while Dan Hemmens never said she was, and simply theorised that it might have been an unconscious influence for the pre-determination notion in the HP series.

Way to miss the point, anonymouse!

Also, isn't it normal to look at an author's envioronment/cultural context to analyse their literary work? I mean if she was Shakespeare then a discussion of the culture of the times or their personal background is a valid form of analysing their work, right? I mean I don't know much about Lit. Theory, but I reckon that's an acceptable method... so I don't really see what Dan Hemmens would be doing wrong even if he did start off assuming she was a Calvinist. (Which he didn't, anyway...)