Harry's Popularity

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Wed Nov 12 10:50:45 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 84779

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jdr0918" <jdr0918 at h...> wrote:
> 
> The Sergeant Majorette says
> 
> Because, as he modestly and adorably points out in SS, he's "...just 
> Harry". He didn't actually *do* anything to defeat Voldemort before 
> he arrived at Hogwarts; he simply "lived". In the first four books, 
> he's a scrawny little four-eyed geek who keeps getting slapped upside 
> the head by life. Then he adolesces, and it's not pretty.
> 
> The WW has been ripped off. They signed up for a bold, stalwart St. 
> George of a Gryffindor. Instead they get this ratty looking kid in 
> welfare glasses, Forrest Gump with a wand.
> 

Wonderful! I love it!

The serpentine complexities of 5 books condensed into 8 lines.
Can anyone else do  better? I doubt it.

I think that if the publishers were to take this and add a question
mark or two it would make the ultimate book jacket blurb for book 6.
If I  were you, I'd copyright it  immediately.

Kneasy







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