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In an effort to offset, confound, and sell books, Rowling has made a followup announcement to her Harry-was-Jesus stupidity: Harry’s teacher was gay. Apparently also in the works are revelations that Hermione was actually an Ojibwe performance artist, Ron was a disenfranchised inner-city black youth, and Hagrid was a crippled Viet Nam vet living in a world he never made. Lady, it’s a book about priviledged white kids navigating power relations in a private school. You can’t rewrite them in by chatting that away.
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October 22nd, 2007 at 9:43 am
Methinks, if I may use a film-world parallel, that if Rowling were to write another slate of Potter books, it would go the way of the “prequel trilogy” George Lucas schemed-up for Star Wars – forever insisting that it was all mapped out long ago (including, jarringly, Jar Jar) and that, no, it’s not a series of tacked on “what if”’s to square the circle of the original films.