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Saturday, July 21, 2007
4:22AM - Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows...part 2
Okay. I just got finished with Deathly Hallows.
Am I gonna post spoilers? Nope.
I will note that the NY Times review was right, that the book is one helluva roller-coaster ride.
My predictions? A total of three were right. I'm disappointed about one of them being wrong (oh come ON, Rowling, you can't tell me you missed THAT opportunity!), and rather pissed off about another being wrong -- because it's got the feel of being literally pulled out of the author's ass at the last minute. And I'm disappointed that two of my predictions just were not touched on -- they were left out of the story completely, and we never find out.
If I say any more, I'll spoil. I'll only note further that the epilogue I mentioned in the last post was legit. But that's the subject of another rant.
I'll post a longer rant on Monday/Tuesday, to give y'all a fair chance to read the book.
2:04PM - To The Pagan Community of Harry Potter "Fans":
An Open Note to all the Neo-Pagans/Goth/Wiccan-wannabes who hang out at bookstores during Harry Potter & other fantasy events:
Shut up.
It's a FANTASY book. It's a FANTASY KIDS book. We do NOT need to hear you talking loudly about "real magic" or see you wearing all your ritual gear or doing your Witchy-Wannabe-Goth act.
Our path does not proselytize. We do not convert. We sure as hell do not need you out there making asses of yourselves in such a way that a) parents steer their kids well clear of you, b) reduces our path to the level of a SF/F fan costume contest, and c) confirms all the Fundies' idiotic untrue assertions about the Harry Potter books.
Harry Potter has as much to do with real Paganism & Wicca as an apple has to do with orange juice. Using events as this to show off your witchy-wannabe asses displays your immaturity & your total lack of understanding of true spirituality. Do us all a favor -- go home. Read Starhawk and Gael Baudino's "Strands of Sunlight", trash the damn Llewellyn books, and don't come back until you UNDERSTAND what the path is about.
Okay, rant done.
To my Christian friends -- please don't judge us Pagans by what you may have seen at any HP event. The visible ones were the asses. The real ones were likely the normal-looking people who were chatting with you about the various plot points of the other books or that let you ahead of them in line or were enthusiastically recommending other great "Harry Potter-like" reads to your kids.
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