[HPforGrownups] Oh my goodness, what book are THEY reading?

[squeakinby]

No: HPFGUIDX 106750

Tammy Rizzo wrote:

> In the NY Times today (I subscribe to the email highlights, not the 
> paper itself), in the Arts section, is this article, 'Harry Potter, 
> Market Wiz', translated from a french article published over there last 
> month.  

Thanks for pointing that out!  Boy, it was my laugh of the day.

One at first thinks he didn't read the books but of course, he must have 
because he got the names right.  So then the only explanation can be the 
ancient rivalry between France and England which has now extended to 
America, having rapidly ruled out any unbiased analysis of the actual 
work of fiction and here I'm speaking of the Potter books not the review 
itself.

Cedric Diggory obviously represents the symbolic poor individual and/or 
countries Anglo-Saxon, capitalistic and debased societies (who shall 
remain nameless but wink wink, we in old Europe know full well who they 
are) take advantage of hence for whom no resolution is fit but death. 
Luckily there is still France to uphold all that's good and wise about 
civilization and can still resist the totalitarianism of the vile 
marketplace.

Oh let's go have another croissant, shall we?  Then do some shopping in 
our trendy boutiques, spending beaucoup euros on transient fashions from 
Parisien ateliers.

Jem