^^ There is. They were a glam-inflected disco outfit from the late '70s. They're actually pretty decent. They also did a record with this singer called Noel entitled "Dancing Is Dangerous" that was apparently a huge influence on Throbbing Gristle's "Hot On The Heels Of Love".
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Oh, Luna Lovegood is great. She's like the Mabel of Hogwarts.
Also I'm surprised because that's the one really angsty book 'n' stuff.
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
re: wish fulfillment: I don't think HP is really heavy on the wish fulfillment. Liiiiike yeah he is an awkward dork who gets abused and bullied until he realizes he is actually a wizard and gets to go to wizard school and have adventures and fight the dark lord of evil, but Harry really does not get everything he wants, and also deals with a *lot* of bad stuff, and also there is the fact that the story gets very dystopian and grimdark later on.
Luna Lovegood is great like CA said, and so is Tonks. :)
re: Matilda: There are similarities, but Matilda is more misanthropic, characteristically of Roald Dahl.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
It's still about a kid's life that is pretty bad, until he gets whisked away to a magical land where he's gifted, told he's special, and also he's a bit of a celebrity. He's challenged, but the challenges ultimately just show how awesome he is.
Executed well or not, you have to admit, that reads like bad fan-fiction.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Harry's usually the kind of protagonist who just sorta stands still and lets things happen around him, isn't he?
Harry really does get less boring later on. I never disliked him as a character, but he actually starts to live up to the whole hero schtick in the fifth book, even if he does do some really stupid things at points (as is to be expected of a teenager).
Umbridge is clearly intended to be utterly loathsome, perhaps even moreso than Voldemort himself. Whilst Voldemort represents a more general and nebulous kind of evil, what with the whole "big bad evil guy who wants to live forever" shtick, Umbridge adores control at a personal level, and will do anything to get it. It's a far more relatable kind of evil, really.
It's still about a kid's life that is pretty bad, until he gets whisked away to a magical land where he's gifted, told he's special, and also he's a bit of a celebrity. He's challenged, but the challenges ultimately just show how awesome he is.
Executed well or not, you have to admit, that reads like bad fan-fiction.
The summary does, but the books don't. There's a distinct difference between the kinds of problems bad fan-fiction characters face and the problems that Harry faces.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Exactly. Umbridge is the kind of evil you have to watch out for in real life, while Voldemort is more of a fantastical villain.
Umbridge is a truly great villain. I have met people like her. Rarely, but they leave an impression, the kind that you have to scrub off with steel wool...
I will admit, however, that Voldemort becomes really interesting from a psychological perspective in the last two books, particularly given his status as the default evil overlord antagonist in a children's book series.
It's still about a kid's life that is pretty bad, until he gets whisked away to a magical land where he's gifted, told he's special, and also he's a bit of a celebrity. He's challenged, but the challenges ultimately just show how awesome he is.
Executed well or not, you have to admit, that reads like bad fan-fiction.
The summary does, but the books don't. There's a distinct difference between the kinds of problems bad fan-fiction characters face and the problems that Harry faces.
Hence why I'm likening the basic premise to bad-fanfiction instead of denouncing the entire series of such. I'm not saying Harry Potter is the worse thing ever created, or anything. It's just, as someone who was already an adult when the books came out, I feel there's less for me here, were as I don't feel the same way as say Avatar: The Last Airbender, Homestuck, or Gunnerkrigg Court.
So, has stuff in Gunnerkrigg happened since Tom made that crack about -imagining a target with every conceivable spot covered in darts- or did Tom go with that seven-year-mopefest that he threatened to do?
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
Dumbledore's Army is a childhood GANG of little monsters who fight the authority of parent figures and they cast their mischievous little spells, like the Lost Boys and Captain Hook! ^_^
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
So, has stuff in Gunnerkrigg happened since Tom made that crack about -imagining a target with every conceivable spot covered in darts- or did Tom go with that seven-year-mopefest that he threatened to do?
Hrmmm.. probably nope and nope.
If anything , the story just hasn't really developed that much.
We found out that only those who have seen death can see thestrals
One of my many little disappointments about the books is that Rowling never followed up on what happened to Nott, the other boy that could see them. She initially intended to have a scene with him talking to Draco at the beginning one of the middle books as an exercise in contrasts and a subtle way of having Malfoy begin to realise what a privileged git he was, but she ended up having to cut it.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Spoilered because it's embarrassing:
Spoiler:
Remember when I used to talk about how I had a desire to watch someone die? That started after reading OoTP as an impressionable child and seeing the thing about the thestrals. >_>
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
Also, related to earlier books: I wonder if Harry's ability to talk to snakes and the Sorting Hat almost putting him in Slytherin are related to his scar connecting him with Voldemort
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
Finished Order of the Phoenix
Sirius died, Dumbledore knew how awful the Dursleys were, there is a method to Luna's madness (the best Cloud Cuckoolanders aren't so random after all), Umbridge left, and Mad-Eye calls out the Dursleys
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I admit, Sirius's death hit me pretty hard. He was really the only family Harry had left, you know?
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i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
I guess it was because the length scared little 9-year old Tre. Or something. 9 year old me is hard to get into the mind of.
Either way I got re-hooked after trying OOTP again at age 11. I finished the series not too long afterward.
Luna Lovegood is great like CA said, and so is Tonks. :)
re: Matilda: There are similarities, but Matilda is more misanthropic, characteristically of Roald Dahl.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
It's honestly kind of weird to see Harry speak so much here; he didn't seem that talkative before
And I'm getting overly analytical, methinks.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
I will admit, I don't think I've met anyone as insidious as Umbridge.
I have a feeling that he's going to die at some point
Sirius died, Dumbledore knew how awful the Dursleys were, there is a method to Luna's madness (the best Cloud Cuckoolanders aren't so random after all), Umbridge left, and Mad-Eye calls out the Dursleys