[the_old_crowd] Re: 24hrs

[ewe2]

On Jan 3, 2008 7:57 AM, Barry Arrowsmith <arrowsmithbt at ...> wrote:
> --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "carolynwhite2" <carolynwhite2 at ...> wrote:
>
> > Likewise Snow. I was simply amazed at that casual comment, buried deep
> > in a long and mainly frivolous interview on Leaky (which also contain
> > some further insights into the making of hogboxes, again, mostly made
> > up on the spot).
> >
> > However, seeing the hour long documentary on UK TV at about the same
> > time it was clear that she thought the clues and other trappings of
> > her 'mystery' story came a very poor second to developing Harry, and
> > she was genuinely puzzled at why fans were so bothered about such
> > glitches. Remember the little boy called Evans, who famously had
> > nothing to do with any part of the plot? She seemed to regard the 24hrs
> > thing in much the same light.
> >
> > Oh well. Our theories were frankly funnier and cleverer, IMNVHO.

Here here.


>
> Not another Leaky gush?
> Oh, dear. Must promise myself never to read it.

I'm definitely not going to read it. What with gushing on one site and
war with another, I've just about had it with that particular internet
circus.

> As for the TV thingy, sounds as if she really is following in the footsteps
> of that old fraud Aggie Christie:
> Bugger the clues, they're only there as framing for this totally fascinating
> main character I've invented.

*Polite cough, taps the Agatha Christie Circle of Damnation sign
around his neck*

> Of course, if you've never really been enthralled by the H. Potter personality
> then possibly you may feel a bit hard done by.
>
> Beedle the Bard.
> Did have hopes that Beedle wasn't a proper noun but a verb, preferably
> involving something nasty, like blunt skewers. Thus: "Poor devil, he's
> been beedled. Nothing we can do for him now."
>
> But there's the possibility that its originator may have intended it to have
> a wider applicability:
>
> Beedle - verb, trans. To be dismissive of the past imperfect.
>
> Kneasy
>

I had a fascinating conversation with a friend who's just been through
the canon and had no doubt that DD was gay and Ginny was meant for
Harry. I tried to explain what we've been doing here for the last few
years (having to explain a lot about fanficdom along the way), and she
was simply flabbergasted that we'd spent all that time on "spinning
our wheels on a lot of useless guff" as she put it. I think I've been
Beedled.

penguin who almost melted from the Christmas-New Year heatwave here.
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