Gabe Bell

I’ll give you that “Phoenix” but re-read “Deathly Hallows” – he uses it and he uses it to damn good effect.

Except when he used Crucio.

Twice.

Is it just me, or does the kid playing Harry not have green eyes?

https://www.tumblr.com/gabebell12fi/784906449407131648/when-you-write-fanfiction-there-are-no

I thought about it.

This post (if you can see it, and if you can’t I will post a summary in a further reply – still not sure how tumblr handles this sort of thing so I do apologise in advance) was triggered by something that happened when I signed up to a different social media site.

Two days after I joined, I posted an adapted quote from Harry Potter, and was told that it was against the “implicit rules” of the site. I made it clear I wasn’t supporting the author, but that I had no desire to stop talking about Harry Potter.

I was told that it was going to be made an explicit rule, so I asked if I could delete my account, at which point I was banned and my account was deleted. Because I wanted to quote, write about and discuss Harry Potter in a positive manner. Not the author – I made that perfectly clear – just the world

I am all for boycotting the author. No merch, no books, no streaming, no cinema trips.

But activities that can’t possibly increase her wealth and bring people joy? Not to mention spread messages of equality, tolerance, freedom and such?

Yeah, that I don’t understand. And am never going to understand.

Well isn’t that going to put the kneazle amongst the hippogriffs.

QUIDDITCH, THE BLOOD BOWL EDITION!!!

I’d watch that.

Well that’s entirely put me off.

Not because of her bigoted rants. I would imagine that isn’t going to show up in the show all that much – I can’t imagine how she can work it in without making it overly obvious.

No – my problem is that Secrets of Dumbledore was crap. I mean REALLY bad. So if she brings her “special touch” to the series the way she did with that then god its going to be appalling.

1 – I have a surprising amount of imagination. More than I need, to be honest. 2 – Because villains CLEARLY don’t react to events with the reactions of “normal, sensible people”. If villains reacted with common sense, then they wouldn’t try to blow up the fucking world every two minutes. They would talk it through. They would sit down with the good guys, or go to therapy. 3 – See 1, but substitute “fiction” for “imagination” 4 – Good for you. I am sure your parents are very proud of you. Unless you’re an orphan, then I apologise for bringing up your parents. 5 – Luke wanted to join The Empire, not the resistance. What do you think “Transmit my application to the academy” meant? He was signing up to be a good little fascist just like all the other fascists.

I say this with as much respect as possible – which is very little (if I am honest) – but do you not understand how fiction works?

If characters in a story – any story – reacted how most people would it would be BORING AS FUCK.

The entire point of heroes, or protagonists, or whatever they are called, is that they don’t react like normal people would.

If they did they wouldn’t be heroes. And then we wouldn’t have a story.

If Romeo and Juliet had behaved like sensible adults then no one would ever have heard of them because they would have waited until they were grown up and then run away together. But that wouldn’t have made a good story.

If Luke Skywalker had any fucking sense he would have stayed home and not got involved. But then he wouldn’t have been a hero. Also he’d have been killed by The Empire. But that’s beside the point.

Anyway.