I will be interested to see what they do with the play. I am not sure why she went the play route but what the heck, it is a new medium for her to mess around with and when you have billions of dollars, well, why not?
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Random people are gay! 
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Somewhat tangential to this, I've been reading a bit of Harry Potter fanfiction recently, and the only thing more alarming than Dumbledore's tendency to be evil is the fact that, when reconsidering the books, it actually makes a fair bit of sense. |
I have been sucked into the fan fiction, some of it is quite good. I actually like that most of the really good fan fiction pretty much calls out Harry as an abused kid who is manipulated by Dumbledore and that Snape is not as much of an ass as he is in the books. I get that the books are meant for kids/early teens but she really needed to either make Harry the less well liked and poorly treated second kid and less of a it is obvious that he is abused kid but everyone in the world is going to ignore that fact.
I tend to find all the people who write Harry as gay and pair him up with Malfoy far more disturbing then the Dumbledore depictions. I can see where they are coming from with Dumbledore, because, really, Harry is such a massive pawn being used by Dumbledore you can see how fans would interpret him as borderline evil.
But the Draco and Harry pairings and the Harry and Snape pairings are really weird. And the Snape as Harry's father are even more of a stretch, although there have been some interesting takes on that...