Prequel

[t0ra-chan.livejournal.com]

I hope it's okay if I post this here.

As some of you might have heard, JKR wrote a 800 words long Marauder prequel for charity. And you can already read it here:
Marauder Prequel

Warning, it's hand-written and very hard to read in some parts.

ETA: Thanks to r_ganymede we have a link to a transcript for easier reading:
Prequel Transcript

Anyway, here's my take on it.



So Sirius and James drive around on Sirius's motorcycle, get caught by the police, get oh-so-witty with the officers, attack some Death Eaters (I think) and piss off again.

What the hell was the point of that? Bad enough that she again couldn't keep her word about being finished with HP, but she broke it to write that? That's not only boring, it tells us absolutely nothing about the characters we didn't know. Heck, it's just more proof what irresponsible jackasses Sirius and James were. Again Muggles are portrayed as stupid and clueless and it's perfectly fine for wizards to have fun at their expense. And look, another chance to make jokes about fat people, haven't seen those in a while. Whatever, JKR.

Comments

[artystone.livejournal.com]

And t-shirts with Phoenix logo don't do a lot for the contention that the Order was some sort of "secret society" either

OMG yes. I saw that and thought WTF?

[savagedamsel10.livejournal.com]

They made them at Cafe Press!!!

That or maybe at the very first Order meeting/whenever new people join Dumbledore gave out a stack of plain t shirts and some glitter, glue, paint, safety pins, dye, feathers, scissors etc. to make their own t shirts. That might be why the Order seems so useless. They should have just tried to make a crust with customised t shirts. They were after all existing around the time of the British Punk movement. :D

[artystone.livejournal.com]

ROFL.
*pictures OoP as Brownie troop*