Games & Recreation JK Rowling The Sexual Deviant - The Harry Potter Discussion thread (SPOILERS)
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I tried reading it to my 4 year old niece, and it didn't work. She's still a bit too young, and she needs pictures. So I'm going to try tales of beedle the bard for her christmas present.
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Thanks for the hookup. I'll pick you up something nice from Honeydukes.
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There’s an illustrated version which also includes dumbledores notes.
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We went to Harry Potter world in Osaka on our holiday a few weeks back and picked up some of the every flavor jelly beans from the in park Honeydukes (they are just jelly belly ones anyone) Jesus some of those flavors are rough
they are ****ed. The vomit one actually tastes like vomit.
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Ahh some “highlights” were the vomit, pepper, dirt and boogers. Because they were from the Japanese park the little info slip saying what the flavours were was in Japanese. We had to google it so we decided to note the color, eat it and then check it, sort of Russian roulette with jelly beans
JK Rowling is just a rich centrist who is no more informed about politics than your average punter, but has a huge platform.
Honestly, she manages to still do incredibly dumb stuff, like create an antisemitic race of fantasy creatures, then rails against Corbyn. Coz alleged antisemitism. An absolute plonker when it comes to politics, but a very talented YA novelist.
Honestly, she manages to still do incredibly dumb stuff, like create an antisemitic race of fantasy creatures, then rails against Corbyn. Coz alleged antisemitism. An absolute plonker when it comes to politics, but a very talented YA novelist.
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Does she claim to be more informed? She certainly passes opinion but im not sure ive ever seen her claim to be an expert.
She does. She is relentlessly on her soapbox about Labour.
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Where? To be fair I don't have twitter so perhaps she has said shes an expert but ive never seen or heard or profess as much
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Yeh, again, she has a twitter and she uses it, does she claim to be an expert? Do you have any tweets where she says she knows more or is more informed? This sounds to me like literally every twitter user ever where she expresses her opinion on a subject, you seem to be giving it more air and validity due to how big her audience is. That doesn't make her a subject matter expert. I can vouch for her having a lot more knowledge and interest in UK politics than I or just about anyone living outside of the UK has but even to me id be reading her posts as an interested and engaged onlooker, not a political advisor or expert.
Her books (in my opinion) actually did a pretty good job of simplifying some very complex themes and political issues (racism etc.) and presenting them in a manner young adults could understand and draw parallels with, whilst also making it clear there is a lot more to those things than can be conveyed in a couple of books.
I still remember getting book #5 on release as a gift. Felt bigger than most dictionaries and encyclopedias at the time (I was a kid), was absolutely blown away.
Umbridge made me shake with rage while reading it.
Umbridge made me shake with rage while reading it.
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She's part of the gentrified 1%ers now.....So that's fairly understandable.
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Off to see fantastic beasts now. Will report back
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