Prequel

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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

I have to de-lurk to say this

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously? Did she look at all the comments people made about what annoyed them about the series and try and combine them in one? Muggle baiting, badly thought out time line, terrible punning, Sirius and James as one dimensional pranksters? You can look at LJ accounts, The Sugar Quill, even FF.net for gods sake and find better written, more interesting and thought provoking drabbles and one shots. Arg...
Alex x