[HPFGU-OTChatter] A Rather Nasty Attitude - HP Release

[Laura Ingalls Huntley]

Steve:
> We all know the world is full of idiots, but why do they have to give
> so many of then their own newspaper column.

Lovely! ^_^

> Here is a comment on the release of 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
> Prince' at some website called 'Hecklerspray'. Maybe the guy is just
> trying to be funny, or maybe this 'mad' critic /thing/ is his schtick.
> Regardless, it's a little mean spirited. Although, he does manage to
> include all the relevant information in his mad rantings.
>
> http://586.typepad.com/hecklerspray/2005/05/harry_potter_hy.html

Am I the only one who thought it wasn't that bad?  I mean, with a name 
like "Hecklerspray" (btw, is it "Heckler spray" or "Hecklers pray"? 
^_~), he obviously does the sarcastic, mean-spirited thing on purpose, 
but -- in the case of this article, it just seemed so *uninspired*.  
Like he was writing it, but he just wasn't *feeling* it, you know?

I mean, the true artists in the world of Harry Potter detractors are 
much more creative -- they call upon religion, they compare the readers 
with babbling idiots and *gasp* children, they give helpful (and 
wonderfully ludicrous) suggestions as to what people *ought* to be 
reading, etc.

This guy was just like "Gee Whiz.  Doesn't it suck that we all have to 
listen to the Harry Potter people get their groove on for the rest of 
the year?  By the way, here's all the info you need if you happen to 
*be* a said Harry Potter person."  He had no *heart*, man.

. . .

Is it bad that I've sort of become a connoisseur of these things?

Laura
http://www.livejournal.com/users/laurahuntley