Harry Potter Tease -- Will he die?

[Chimera]

Wait, the article is a fake? How do you know?

I feel used.

[Archon]

I liked the response from S. O'Crates.

[Chimera]

Well, I finally had a chance to look again at the article and the Watley Times in general, and I have to say I feel very dumb. Oh, well. Should've checked my sources.

Although now I really wish I could find that blog I originally read it in--because it was a blog filled with news bits from all over, and I doubt they were all fake. So someone else thought it was real, too.

At least I wasn't the only one who believed it, I guess.  

[Fellfrosch]

That doesn't mean people won't copy her, just that she still has 60 years left before it's legal. The idea that the public has no claim on media is silly no matter how old that media is.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

the problem with that exception, sprig, is that Shakespeare himself was openly co-opting other works his whole career. His material was being published and performed within months of his death. 10 years or 400, it makes almost no difference.

[Spriggan]

Well the big fuss now-a-days is that Shakespeare didn't write anything but was a producer that put his name on everything.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

if you consider the last 150 years "nowadays."

It doesn't matter much. SOMEONE wrote them, and Shakespeare was the name on it. Thus you can say "shakespeare" and won't be wrong.

[FirstMateJack]

Are you ready for this?


Ok.. I have noticed a rather large amount of similarity between Gollum and Wormtail.

Dumbledore believes that he still has some part to play, just like Gandalf, Wormtail hates what he has become. My money is on the idea that in the end, he somehow saves Harry and at the same time sacrifices himself making it possible for Harry to kill Voldemort.

That's just me.

[Spriggan]

if you consider the last 150 years "nowadays."

It doesn't matter much. SOMEONE wrote them, and Shakespeare was the name on it. Thus you can say "Shakespeare" and won't be wrong.

Slate had an article about it a few weeks ago about new evidence that he never wrote anything, didn't bother to read it though since I don't really care.

[Oldie Black Witch]

You'd be surprised. This is really bizzare, but just today I read in some old blog on the Internet about a disgruntled fan who wrote and published a "corrected" version of HP and the Half-Blood Prince. I can't find the exact blog, but here's another link.
http://www.watleyreview.com/2005/072605-3.html

What a blithering idiot!
As a writer, this really bothers me. You, a fan and NOT the author of the work, cannot take it and change the book to suit your liking and then *publish* it (granted, it was on the Internet, but still). And you, a fan, are not in a position to say whether or not the author has followed "the true Harry Potter mythos." She created Harry Potter--it's her mythos, loser!!! She can do with it what she wants! And claiming that if you publish it the world and characters become the property of the people is just baloney. What about copyright? This sort of thing makes me really leery of fanfiction--and the people who write it. (If you read in the article about her version, you'll probably laugh at how stupid it is. I did.)

Heh. This isn't unheard-of. I posted a rant back in January about a guy that I met who was almost militant about his fanfic and complained about how HBP didn't go the way he wanted it to.

Here's the link. It's about halfway down the page: "Happy New Year! Enjoy it Responsibly."

[Rak-O-Latern]

I think that he'll die right at the end of the seventh book.
But in doing so saves the world from voldemort or something similar.
It's so steriotypical, why can't they make a book where the main character dies half way through and his best friends get eaten by a large chicken, that would make a great book.


PS. When Potter does die, they should make a spin-off called Ginger Weasley, where Ron is the main character

[Faster Master St. Pastor]

How about no. Spin offs like that are evil.

[Harbinger]

why can't they make a book where the main character dies half way through and his best friends get eaten by a large chicken, that would make a great book.

So what happens in the second half?

[Spriggan]

The Chicken travels to Memphis and becomes an Elvis impersonator but then finds out that his mentor's brother was the main character's best friend he ate.

[Rak-O-Latern]

yeh.......... sure