Ummm...Harry Potter is a series of kid's books, remember? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Angel Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 10:57 AM Subject: Harry Potter is a fraud and a pretender!
> "Harry Potter is a fraud, and the cult that has risen around him is > based on a lie. Potter's claim to fame, his central accomplishment in > life, is surviving a curse placed on him as an infant by the evil wizard > Voldemort. As a result, the wizarding world celebrates the young Harry > as "The Boy Who Lived." It's a curiously passive accomplishment, akin to > "The Boy Who Showed Up," or "The Boy Who Never Took a Sick Day." And > sure enough, just as none of us do anything special by slogging through > yet another day, the infant Harry didn't do anything special by living. > It was his mother who saved him, sacrificing her life for his. " > > "What Harry has achieved on his own, without his mother, stems mostly > from luck and, more often, inheritance. He's a trust-fund kid whose > success at his school, Hogwarts, is largely attributable to the gifts > his friends and relatives lavish upon him. (Coming soon: Frank Bruni's > book, Ambling Into Hogwarts: The Unlikely Odyssey of Harry Potter.) A > few examples: an enchanted map (made in part by his father), an > invisibility cloak (his father's), and a state-of-the art magical broom > (a gift from his godfather) that is the equivalent of a Lexus in a > high-school parking lot." > > > There ya go! > Harry the patsy, jock,rich kid fraud! > > http://slate.msn.com/?id=2073627 > > -Gel > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
