ONTD

In relation to a Reddit thread I stumbled upon about bad celeb encounters, I wanna give a shoutout to the two people on ONTD for RUINING jkr to me in a post about her last year by writing about how she was shitty to them

thanks, guys, really, thank you.

First was random and unnecessarily rude, in a grocery store in Edinburgh on Christmas she cut off OP at the register when OP had two items and she had a huge cartload of stuff... like, y u gotta be like that

Second, OP was a waiter at a restaurant she and her family went out to and she's apparently a total nightmare, really mean to the waitstaff and demanding and generally awful. Ugh I cannot ABIDE people who are rude to service industry workers, get the fuck outta here with that bullshit.

SO YEAH I WAS CRUSHED. Still kinda am oop!!!!

IDK, I never reallly wanted a Marauders books. I feel like that for them (and also for Snape) we already have their complete character arcs? A book series set at Hogwarts would just be ~wacky hjinx~ and we p. much know everything significant that went down in the first war. If we get an HP prequel, Dumbledore or Founders please and thank you.

I feel like out of possible Marauder storylines, the only one I would care about would be Sirius and the Black family. So, she should write a book just on them because I need more Andromeda Black/Tonks in my life.

Also, if she were to write a book about the Marauder era in general, the fandom might be even more insufferable when it comes to Snape/Snape and Lily.

Edited at 2013-03-09 05:58 am (UTC)

You are correct.

LMAO. Omg. People would tho. YOUNG SNAPE WITH OLD SNAPE! I'm sure it's happened in some fanfiction.

LOL same here.

good

because we don't need one, we got everything we need about them from the books

-I also had my first kiss when I was 12!

-I don't really care about a lack of Marauders prequel now that the possibility of Sirius/Remus has been so thoroughly sunk.

Lol. 16 is not late, seriously.

Did you just decide you wanted all that shit over and done with?

i refuse to believe that grindewald never loved dumbledore.

my headcanon is that grindelwald has internalized homophobia. and though he loved dumbie back, he valued his quest for the hallows much more.

anyway, i don't value "word of god" much unless it's literally written WITHIN canon. if she's saying all these stuff now that the books are out, it doesn't really matter to me. what matters is how readers *logically* interpret the text, etc. *shrugs*

I've never been particularly interested in the marauders. So, I'm okay with that. I like them. I just don't feel I need a book of their adventures or anything.

I would love stories that would flesh out some of the secondary characters though that takes place during, and a little after the series.

i dunno, i'm kinda satisfied with the bits of marauder-era stuff we got from poa, ootp, and dh, and even that two-page thing with james and sirius she wrote for charity. i get that everyone wants a day-by-day of the marauder life like we got with the trio, but i feel like since their lives weren't quite as epic as harry, ron, and hermione's, it'd get stale fast lmao

"Her proudest moment was when she outed Dumbledore (as gay)"

I think a lot of people don't even know this happened. Would be better if she actually included it in the book.

i just thought he was quirky and eccentric ):

And he always had that Victrola playing Cher?

ikr

that reminds me of the most awesome journal entry where someone addressed that and went back and inserted Dumbledore's coming out into all these random HP passages. It's not online anymore but I have a copy saved, some quotes because it still makes me lol:

"Famous before he can walk and talk! Famous for something he won't even remember! Can't you see how much better off he'll be, growing up away from all that until he's ready to take it? Speaking of 'taking it', I myself like it up the butt, how about you, Minerva?"

"Nitwit, blubber, oddment, tweak. And, my personal favorite: peen."

"It's lucky it's dark. I haven't blushed so much since Madame Pomfrey told me she liked my new earmuffs. I told her I'd wanted the purple glittery ones, but these rainbow ones had been on sale, so..."

"What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrel is a complete secret, so, naturally, the whole school knows. Kind of like how I'm totally gay."

"After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. I mean, after tent pegs, nothing is scary."

"Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. That's why I prefer to say I'm gay or homosexual, and not a queer, a fag, a bender, a queen, or chasing the Quaffle for the other team. Except I really do enjoy such funny-sounding words, though, so..."

"The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution. A lot like losing your backdoor virginity, actually."

"Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign ... to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. (...) It was agony to touch a person marked by something so good. Also, I like peen."

"It is our choices Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. Oh, and our sexual orientation, too, of course."

i never understood the fandoms obsession with the Marauders tbh

Thank goodness. I don't want to read a story where I know the ending already. :-|

Maybe she can write something about Harry Potter's grandchildren. Skip the Epilogue-kids all together.

And really mess with fandom.

I think she should never go back to the HP world. The stories are over. Let it be. I love the books but I don't want to risk a Star Wars-esque backlash.

Also, the Shoebox Project was terrible. I will never understand why people always creamed themselves over it.

Exactly. I want JKR to write whatever she wants to, on her own time. I don't want to read something that was clearly only done because she felt pressured. She's had Harry in her head for twenty years. I think she's owed a wee breather if she wants one.

Guess that gives her more time to write A Game of Beards, an honest look into the contract marriages of Draco and Astoria and Harry and Ginny.

I feel like this is for the best, tbh. I'd like Hogwarts: A History in all its glory though.

omg YES

YES PLEASE