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SilverCatInTheMirror
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(2/24/04 10:38 am)
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I did vote, and I do think that I chose what is, in my humble opinion, the best book of the five, but I feel compelled to add that in fact I hate Harry Potter. I was never very fond of the books, because they are sipmle both in style and themes and creativity. Certainly, the school and the ballgame caught the imagination, but... well, that is commercial children's literature for you.
The thing that galls me most about Harry Potter nowadays, is the child they chose to play him in the films. For me the essential aspects of Harry Potter lie in his slenderness and his wild hair, things he got from living under the stairs. He is always slightly amazed at the things that happen, at what he can do. His own strength is a marvel to him.
Rowland (very much involved in the production of the films) allowed such a child to be chosen... Well Lewis Caroll's Alice would say: "some children are quite horrid as children, but they do make rather handsome pigs. What a pity one doesn't know how to turn them from the one into the other".
Hmm this doesn't sound humble at all, does it? Well, remember it is only my view. Maybe you look so intently at Hermione that you didn't even see that Harry, although I do think that would be hard to do...
This reminds me: at one time a faked sequel was published, in China I believe. It had Rowland's picture and all the traditional characters and everything... The only disadvantage to it was that Harry Potter was turned into a fat, hairy dwarf at the end and he lost all his magical powers.
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