Re: "I'll never forgive Jo for ..."

Bill Blakely wrote:
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:32:20 -0500, Drusilla
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Bill Blakely wrote:
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Sirius Kase escribió:
On Nov 8, 1:56 pm, "George Johnson" <matri...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Bill Blakely" <wcblak...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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| On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:28:44 +0530, santosh <santosh....@xxxxxxxxx>| | wrote:

|| >Shiral wrote:

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| >> The whole Grawp story line. What a STUPID waste of print. A | >> literary
| >> detour she'd have done better not to take. [...]
| >
| >For that matter Hagrid himself is arguably a waste of print.
|
| Oh, no, not at all!! But he doesn't have a lot of purpose after PoA,
| and for that reason I kept expecting JKR to kill him off in every
| subsequent book. Instead, she give him the mission to the giants to
| give him something to do while waiting for his last big scene in DH,
| and that was fine -- I'm glad the guy lived -- but she didn't have to
| make a full blown subplot of it and drone on and on about it when it
| wasn't very interesting and was of no importance in the end.
|
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| George W. Bush: Billions for Halliburton but not one cent for | children's
health care.

Hagrid was the classic "Loveable Brute".

A big child-like man in a huge body full of muscles and casual power.
Hagrid was a kind of tip of the hat to all of the adults that still
enjoy kids books and still retain a youthful glee. That is why his sexual
desires were never persued to any serious level beyond "play dating" with
Madame Maxime. Grawp was a blatent nod to the Hagrid "infantile muscle-man"
type of character.

You can find a number of powerful men in fiction reduced to a
"childlike" characterization to make them "less inately threatening" to a
younger audience. The "Loveable Brute" character appeals to the female
audience + gay male audience by kicking in the maternal instincts (the
character seems helpless to handle the problems of an average adult) while
also appealing sexually to the female + gay male audience for purely sexual
reasons. The "Loveable Brute" character also appeals to the females + gay
males even stronger when the "Loveable Brute" is cast as a selfless
self-sacrificing protector that endures horrible agony to protect those he
cares for.

At this point, J.K. Rowling's only flaw in using the character is not
having him run around in a pair of tight shorts (or briefs) or shirtless,
flexing his hairy chest and muscled arms to cement the whole "passion
object" aspect of the "Loveable Brute" architype.

You really have to shut down the emotional section of your brain to
dispassionately realize that they call television shows "PROGRAMMING" for a
reason.

To program an audience, you have to manipulate them. To manipulate an
audience, you have to twist their desires and opinions into your desires and
opinions by using characters that appeal to them for horribly stereotypical
reasons. Once you can get an audience to laugh on cue, you can get them to
agree with you unthinkingly.
You think Hagrid is sexy? I think Snape has much more fangirls. I
think Harry has much more fangirls. In fact, even Dudley is sexier
than Hagrid. But, not Vernon, I don't know what Petunia sees in him.

LOL, I think Hagrid really has a lot of fans, but not due to his "sexiness"
Listen, young lady. It's not the size. It's the... err... the... well... uhh... you know... the...

I mean, how is someone your size supposed to get... I mean put... err... you know... do... I mean actually do... for real... I mean...

Oh, forget it.
--
Chris
You know, somehow you made me remember something that has bewildered my mum for years. How her lovely German Shepherd got pregnant with the neighbor's Dachshund. That thought.. oh, well, it¡s how she says it what made me giggle. So, yes, I know that some things doesn't matter.
It is an old tradition that whenever two Germans meet, far away from home, a colony is founded.

And, about Hagrid being sexy, today I read that Hugo Chavez had been selected among the sexiest men in Venezuela... so.... no further comment.
It would seem that (would-be-) dictators with good propaganda become substitute rock stars. Just look at footage of Hitler driving through a crowd in an open car and observe the tear filled screaming women who would loved to have had his child.
--
Chris
Yeah, I know but still... <shudders> Hugo Chavez is the most un-sexy person I've ever heard about... God, I even gave Snape some credit!


Would you suggest that his nights are lonely? I strongly doubt it!
No, I don't. Even unsexy people have sex, don't they?
As Henry Kissinger, no stud-muffin himself, said, power is the
ultimate aphrodisiac.

I see where King of Spain told Chavez to shut up at the Ibero-Latin
American summit.

As Mel Brooks said, it's good to be the king.

I thought that was rather amusing too. Hugo was calling one of his friends names, and the king got annoyed. Chavez is a real 'case'.

Chavez was insulting the former Spanish President, Aznar, while the actual one, Zapatero, was talking. He called him fascist, accused him to be aware of a strike in Venezuela back in 2002, called him "less human than snake" and the usual stuff he always babbles about. Chavez is like a "king" in Venezuela, his TV shows last hours in local tv, he's not used to let others to speak: you're against him, you're gone. Now he's saying the King behave like a "mad bull". How mature of him, isn't it? Poor people in Venezuela that now have to face a humiliated Chavez when they're about to vote for a new constitution that, if approved, will keep him in power forever.

Will the referendum be rigged, or does Chavez have the people of
Venezuela so taken in that he doesn't have to do that?


Probably both.
He promises much, delivers little.
.

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