It's enough to make one want to turn to anarchy, honestly. One gets the impression that not only does Rowling not understand quite a lot of things, she doesn't really care either.
She does tend to say a lot of biting things about different classes of people, but when you think about them they don't really hold up. Like how Umbridge is bad for interfering in good education, and also bad for trying to replace bad teachers (who are friends of the headmaster) with good ones. Or the Dursleys are bad for aspiring to traditional public schools and also bad for not being good enough for a traditional public school.
It's sad when one has to artificially stunt the Muggle culture to make the stunted magical culture look better, when it is clearly not :(
Seriously. I mean, I can see why she doesn't want to deal with Muggle culture because she would really have to step up her game, but that's all the more reason to just avoid it. Jack Bauer from 24 and his Sprint cell phone could pretty much take out Voldemort without needing a full 24 hour season.
I think the flowery scent of Ginny probably triumphs over Dementor-stink. I now have an image of Ginny as "Perfume Girl", choking enemies to death with her scents of rose, lavender and lilly. Cue the crazy fans writing whole essays on the significance of said flowers. Even though this is a hypothetical situation, I still want to tell them to shut up :/
LOL! Yup, and if the stink gets too bad she gives them the old bat bogey hex to clean out their noses.
Btw, have you noticed the way bad Snape gets his made-up spells turned against him yet nobody ever turns that bat bogey on Ginny. I guess her spells are so cool and special nobody can do them. Or else everybody really just agrees with us that it's a stupid hex nobody should want to do.
Isn't there also a thing in the Jabootu scores that says something about a story where everyone has to be made stupid in order for it to work?
Yup--Idiot Picture. I chose Idiot World for this scoring since we were dealing with a head of state.:-)
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Date: 2006-03-19 04:36 pm (UTC)She does tend to say a lot of biting things about different classes of people, but when you think about them they don't really hold up. Like how Umbridge is bad for interfering in good education, and also bad for trying to replace bad teachers (who are friends of the headmaster) with good ones. Or the Dursleys are bad for aspiring to traditional public schools and also bad for not being good enough for a traditional public school.
It's sad when one has to artificially stunt the Muggle culture to make the stunted magical culture look better, when it is clearly not :(
Seriously. I mean, I can see why she doesn't want to deal with Muggle culture because she would really have to step up her game, but that's all the more reason to just avoid it. Jack Bauer from 24 and his Sprint cell phone could pretty much take out Voldemort without needing a full 24 hour season.
I think the flowery scent of Ginny probably triumphs over Dementor-stink. I now have an image of Ginny as "Perfume Girl", choking enemies to death with her scents of rose, lavender and lilly. Cue the crazy fans writing whole essays on the significance of said flowers. Even though this is a hypothetical situation, I still want to tell them to shut up :/
LOL! Yup, and if the stink gets too bad she gives them the old bat bogey hex to clean out their noses.
Btw, have you noticed the way bad Snape gets his made-up spells turned against him yet nobody ever turns that bat bogey on Ginny. I guess her spells are so cool and special nobody can do them. Or else everybody really just agrees with us that it's a stupid hex nobody should want to do.
Isn't there also a thing in the Jabootu scores that says something about a story where everyone has to be made stupid in order for it to work?
Yup--Idiot Picture. I chose Idiot World for this scoring since we were dealing with a head of state.:-)