[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Harry Potter and God

[Nightbreed]

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Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Harry Potter and God

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Nightbreed" <md at ...> wrote:

> JK likes the heads, it's her story, so I support them.


I really didn't intend to start another heads discussion :-). I know very
well that you like them, and you know that I don't :-). 
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Actually, I'm completely indifferent. I can't believe how people keep
beating on them as if the five minutes in the film ruin the experience. Of
course, I think 3 & 5 are the best films and I was so happy to see Columbus
out of the director's chair and a real film maker adding style and validity
to the series -- as well as making the films about characters and not just
plot -- that I could have forgiven the heads either way. Now, the shrunken
head in the DVD extra's -- that's annoying!!! (and stupid beyond reproach,
imo.)

My only thing is, as a writer, I don't want people second-guessing my
choices in my world. I think, the moment JKR decided to use "magician's"
wands which, IIRC, have never been part of any major wizard lore (wizards
carry staffs, if anything, only charlatans and illusionist use "wands") she
had made a decision to break with traditional genres and conventions. 

What I don't understand is the need to respond negatively to these things,
and often, not at all constructively.

md