New harry Potter book coming out!

“Writers always have more fully dimensional ideas regarding characters and their motivations that never appear in the finished product.

Rowling should have fully expected this sort of backlash, but I guess she feels pretty bulletproof at this point.  Her family has more cash than they can spend in five generations and the publishing, motion picture and the other myriad corporate interests have their final installment.  I'm sure she feels unburdened at this point and free to say whatever she likes.

Perhaps she did it to flush out the people to whom this would be some kind of 'bombshell'.... It sounded like a dig at the same sort of people who flip out about all the 'satanic witchery'.

Right on, Nigal.”

“Apparently for some narrow minded individuals, intolerence can only possibly be a one way street.”

“i am intolerant of sarges intolerance of nigals intolerance of intolerance”

“come here, sarge. give me a great BIG

”

“The reality is that very few people (the exceptions) actually are "up in arms" over the witchcraft. 99% of people who are against reading about that in the book don't buy the book. Period. And, they frankly don't care much about it at all. Just like 99% of the people against Christian literature just don't read it, and don't really care about it at all. There may be a few "exceptions" out there who make a big deal of Christian literature (some on here), but they're not worth discussing. "Real" people just ignore it and move on. It (the anti-witchcraft "movement") seems to be a bigger deal (worth a guffaw here and there, especially "here") to the book supporters.

So, being as successful as she is, if she really just said that to get a rise out of people, that says a lot more of her intolerence, and of her pettiness, than of anyone else. I'd think we could give her more credit than that, being that she is an adult, but maybe not. I don't know what her intention was. I hope she's just an over-imaginative woman as opposed to a spiteful one.”

“crash - that episode was great.”

“Looks like she flushed out at least one.

Intolerance of intolerance is not intolerance, LOL”

“yes, but three lefts make a right”

“No Geneva Conventions prohibiting tortured logic ----”

“Agreed, if it wasn't important enough to mention in the books then why is it relevant now?”
dayhiker
8:43:01 AM
10/21/07

It's a good way to get up people's noses. When you are worth more than the Queen you can afford to do that.”

“Yes, and three Crashes make for Bang-Bang-Bang!!!”

“Maybe she should take all that cash and hire armies of private detectives to go after politicians she doesn't like.... like Richard Scaife.”

“Nah, she gives her money to the MS society, kids' rights groups to end orphanages that keep kids in cage beds, trying to help find out what happened to that little girl in Portugal, things like that.”

“treebait, don't waste your breath, you can't fight envy based hate.”

“Sarge - ... oh forget it. It isn't worth it.

Nigel - You say “I personally don't think sexuality of any kind is needed or warranted in books intended for this age range of readers ...”

What age group is that? It seems like she and the stories have a pretty broad appeal. Besides, simply saying someone is gay doesn't really talk about sexuality any more than having Harry have parents who were married is talking about their sexuality. It just fleshes out the characters, so to speak.”

“Besides, simply saying someone is gay doesn't really talk about sexuality any more than having Harry have parents who were married is talking about their sexuality.

LOL!

So what was the point of saying it? She could have just said "yes", or "no". You're flat out wrong, but fixing your brain is not worth it. Oh, I'm sorry, was that rude?”

“What age group is that?

They were written for kids and early teens from the start.

Besides, simply saying someone is gay doesn't really talk about sexuality any more than having Harry have parents who were married is talking about their sexuality.

That is your opinion and you are welcome to it. I personally do not see it that way.”

“It's FICTION, people!

All of you need to get a grip. ;-)”

“gay witches are so silly”

“So true SS.

I loved all 7 books.


Would Dumbledore have REALLY dressed that way if he were gay? I mean, half moon glasses?”

“Would Dumbledore have REALLY dressed that way if he were gay? I mean, half moon glasses?

And what's up with all the hair? Gay men don't like the beards. They like to be clean shaven...

”

“Shocking. Most shocking, indeed...”

“I hit "properties"
rotflmao”

“I knew who it was.”

“Just a little good natured ribbing. I mean Violin does drive a Toyota Yaris after all.”

“When he was coming up through Hogwarts all the other kids used to call him . . .


wait for it . .. .


wait for it . . . .



Backdoor”

“Nigal, so it's a Yaris drivers fraternity of sorts then?”

“Only the hatch backs are gay. The sedans are a man's car. LOL!”

“Harry Potter fan, 3, freed by six firefighters from traffic cone 'wizard hat'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=489003&in_page_id=1770



The Devil made me laugh at this kid.
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“Just don't be such a bunch of old homophobics



Stay cool. Hang loose.”

“Newsround can exclusively reveal that actress Jessie Cave has been cast as Lavender Brown in the next Potter film.

She beat off competition from thousands of other girls who were all desperate to spend much of the Half-Blood Prince snogging Rupert Grint.
.......more.......
with picture......
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7090000/newsid_7093300/7093314.stm


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I think there is a 'Quote' in there somewhere. ;-)
last edited: 11/13/07 12:00:48 PM”

“They'll in their mid 20's by the time this thing finishes up.”

“I read about it first thing this morning. Mugglenet.com you know.

;)”

“Has Harry been tried as a witch yet? Where's the Spanish Inquisition when you need it?”

“I need to watch the last movie that was released. That was the 5th one, correct? Maybe I should just wait and do like I did with the books. Reading 5-7 in about 6 weeks worked pretty dang good.”

“Interesting.
Especially seeing that they cast a black girl as Lavender (Jennifer Smith) in one of the previous movies.
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“I apparently missed that little detail.”

“Magic!”

“Prisoner of Azkaban”

“Time to dig out the dvd...”

“lol, it has to be DH.”