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terri t - 2010-03-27 16:05:04
I haven't read Harry Potter....yes. I am the ONE who still doesn't know all about these characters. But, I get the idea from your take on the whole thing. And sadly, your last sentence told me the rest of the story. Sorry that your fairy tale is fractured...I don't think any of us have that perfect Prince Charming but some of us are luckier than others....
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poundheadhere - 2010-03-27 19:51:57
I disagree on the situation with Hermoine. When you ask what Hermoine sees in Ron, you could ask that about 99 percent of relationships on planet Earth. How can you break relationships down into logical though processes? You can't point a gun and say, "I'm gonna fall in love with THAT one." (Well, men can but they don't count.) It's not that arbitrary. We don't control who we love, and never will. Now about Gambon's interpretation of Dumbledore, I have to agree. I wanted to like him but he simply never had the charm and depth to pull it off. With Richard Harris you always KNEW there was a whole separate world going on behind those eyes. You wondered if the Witching world was merely one of a thousand realities he was juggling, and maybe then one of the minor ones. Sadly, Gambon came across like a feeble, past-his-prime candidate for the old wizards' home.
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dichroic - 2010-03-27 21:33:44
I think I disagree. Ted is as bright and talented as I am (and vice versa - but just in different directions. And so we take turns taking a back seat and try to use each other's talents. (It's been very weird working at the same place, where I have a very visible worldwide role but he;s Mr. Big-Deal Manager. It's not like that when we work at HQ because it's a much bigger pond, but here in Taiwan he's on the GM's staff and leads the largest-by-far department.)
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Stephanie - 2010-03-28 00:07:00
I don't have much use for "happily ever after" because I never believed in it.
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Anna - 2010-03-28 10:47:03
I think the race thing is heightened by the terms we use - like the word race for starters, which disintegrates when you try and examine it closely, and reveals itself as being mainly about skin colour. Also 'black' and 'white' - totally inaccurate, even albinos aren't white like snow is white - carrying such mountains of other meanings to do with day and night, good and bad etc etc. Wolf has it - we're all beige, with some extremes of browner or pinker, but where's the value judgement in that? I'm going to read the rest of Harry Potter one day, honest. Big love to you, dear LA. No happy ever after, but lots of bits of happy here and there, moments of joy. xx
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