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I'd swallow the 'it's too perfect in execution' argument if I'd never seen an episode of Fox 'news'.
I have watched Fox News. I have read Chick Tracts. I have talked to fundies who believe Harry Potter is a sly pagan effort to normalize Satan worship and witchcraft among children. I have watched the Westboro Baptist Church demonstrate, and I am familiar with Landover Baptist Church, the Onion, Cracked, and Snopes.
The satire is obvious to me. I don't know how to make it plainer to others.
Like I said, I do think it's probably satire, but I just don't buy the "it's too perfect" argument.
Well posting it on FF.net, to me, says it's satire.
One of the main reasons franchises allow all this fanfic and fanart and stuff is because growing a healthy fanbase is of far more benefit than going after individual copyright infringers. FF.net is one of the most well-known and large gathering place of Harry Potter fans. If you really think that reading Harry Potter would turn your little children into witches, why would you post your fanfic there, where all these witches are posting theirs? I'd buy that it's real a lot more if it was on a private blog or something...
I also find it questionable that if the mom finds Harry Potter to be so morally dubious, that she'd take the time to read it and learn who the characters are. Usually when people decry fiction as being immoral, they either haven't read it or haven't read it that closely.
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I do wonder what people like that think of the Bartimaeus Trilogy and the like... but I guess they only go after popular books, huh?
Well for a start, the woman doesn't say that no one should read Harry Potter, just that it's inappropriate for children. That's why she's doing this, for the kids.I also find it questionable that if the mom finds Harry Potter to be so morally dubious, that she'd take the time to read it and learn who the characters are. Usually when people decry fiction as being immoral, they either haven't read it or haven't read it that closely.
a bollywood remake of the matrix
Well for a start, the woman doesn't say that no one should read Harry Potter, just that it's inappropriate for children. That's why she's doing this, for the kids.
Either she is trolling at the most hardcore level...
Second it is quite clear from the text that she has never read more then the wikipedia page. Her understanding of the characters is more like a bollywood remake of the matrix. Either she is trolling at the most hardcore level, or she really doesn't understand the majority of what happens in the books, beyond their synopsis.
Third, she's put out two new chapters since this thread was started, and says she's going to start taking writing classes, if her husband will let her.
I don't think she--if it is a "she"--needs writing lessons at all. I think the rewrite is close to brilliant. Certainly, it's better than the Twilight saga...
I do wonder what people like that think of the Bartimaeus Trilogy and the like... but I guess they only go after popular books, huh?
Given Poe's Law, this Harry Potter "movie review" seems appropriate:
http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news1199/potter.html