Jump to content

Click Here!

The People Above And Below You


Shaduan

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 5.6k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

^ Considering I'm not getting it, that's kind of a given.

< Fine. < will explain why < doesn't like HP.

SPOILER :
J. K. Rowling and I are about the same age. When I was growing up, my family couldn't afford child care, so they bought a home that had a library nearby. I was told to go straight to the library and wait for mom to get off her nursing job (8-5, btw) there. While there, I read a lot of children's books. Lots of them.

A few months after the first book came out, I saw one in a bookstore and started reading it. The main problem I have with HP is that NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING is original in it. I read about 1/5th of the book and kept going "Oh, you ripped this off from this book, this off from this other book, and this off from another book." Quiddich bares a striking resemblence to a game played in the 1970 children's book The Intergalactic Olympics. It was a game from another planet where the sentient creatures could fly. I don't remember the name of it, though. Also in that same book there was a completely cluessless man named Coach Muggle. There was another book about kid spies in Russia who had their secret base at "Station 9 3/4" Even Harry's look isn't original; there was a character in the Encyclopedia Brown series that looked EXACTLY like Harry without the lighting bolt scar.

I think J. K. Rowling is ending the series for two main reasons:

1) She's sick of all the HP porn on the internet

2) She's running out of ideas to rip off.

V Will *NEVER* click on that spoiler.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

^ no, quamp I clicked on it.

< wonders how quamp, a serious anime fan, can dislike something only because its using borrowed methods and cookie cutter characters.

< knows of at least fourteen wizard of wizard like characters who looks like Harry Potter, some older, some younger. *Cough*Ponder Stibbons*cough*Lezard Valeth*cough*Kabuto*cough*

< is going to stop cutting apart quamp's arguments.

V should know that < had to change the q from a Q in quamp's name everytime < wrote the name.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Guest echtrae

^ is quite familiar with the anime stuff

< not nearly so familiar with anime, only knows what it is in general terms

v knows a bit more about anime than it's some animation thing where the characters have oversized eyes

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.


×
×
  • Create New...