Lee Jordan! was: What things that you wanted did you get?

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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Zara" <zgirnius@> wrote:
> >
> > > SSSusan:
> > > Anyone else care to bite?



LEE JORDAN HOSTS POTTERWATCH!
LEE JORDAN HOSTS POTTERWATCH!
LEE JORDAN HOSTS POTTERWATCH!

Ahem. Sorry. Sorry for that.  I was just overcome.

Most of the time, when I read a series, I tend to pick a character
that's not a primary character, not a secondary character, maybe not
even a tertiary character.  But some little fun character that I root
for.  That I hope somehow becomes a bigger character, or at least
doesn't get lost in the shuffle.

In Harry Potter, that character was Lee Jordan.  He was funny, and a
student outside the trio given some real personality.  His presence
alone broadened the world of Hogwarts for me – how often did we really
get to see friendships between other characters?  His friendship with
the Weasley twins really opened them up for me. They didn't just have
each other – they too had their own lives and friends.  (And it
harkens back even to what I said about jocks vs the av club – the
Weaselys and Lee were both).  I happily told everyone of my love of
Lee. `Um
 ok.  And, I love Angelina Johnson.'  Fine, so no one is
really going to care about a bit character, but for me


There he was, a happy little presence in 5 books, even showing the
kind of kid he was when he joined the DA.

And then, in the 6th book
 nothing!  Nary a word of poor Lee!  Even
Oliver Wood, after 3 books, got a cameo in Book 4.  But Lee gets
NOTHING.  How can this be?  I again told anyone who would listen how
personally offended I was.  How he could have at LEAST been helping
out in the twins joke shop.  But really, I had my own idea, which I
also told everyone.  If The Daily Prophet was almost a mouthpiece for
the ministry, wouldn't it be something if Lee had a show on the WWN? 
A late night show, that not many people listened to, where he espoused
the ideas of the Order to the true believers?  Fought against the
Prophets lies?  Occasionally interviewed the Weird Sisters?  But alas,
it was not to be.  JKR has too many characters and storylines to
follow. My pet cause would likely never come to anything.

Then
 this book
 Ron is hinting at something, playing with his radio,
there's a show? A radio show?? Potterwatch???  It's Lee Jordan!!!!!!!!

Really, she could do almost anything else with the series I was so
happy to have that scene.  It was fanfiction come to life for me. (You
know, if I had actually written the fan fiction)  Lee, on the radio,
helping the order
 oh, Ms. Rowling, I forgive you for omitting Lee in
Book 6.  Thank you thank you thank you. 

:)

Ok, I'm being absurd here, but
 man was that a great moment for me
when reading the books.  Perhaps I had an unhealthy and frightening
amount of joy at it.

There are a lot of great threads going on right now that I want to
respond to – more than time or posting limits will likely allow me to
tonight.

But for now
 Lee Jordan hosts Potterwatch!!!

~Adam