UnderYourSkin: If JKR tried to publish the HP series during the time of the Salem Witch Trials she probably would have found herself being hunted down like the rest of the ,supposed, witches.
Anndee Granger: There isn't, but I can see where they were going with this...a different analogy would probably have been better.
Maybe the religious persecution during Mary Tudor's reign, or the Salem Witch Hunt/Trials, the religous crusades, the wars in Bosnia etc.
We harmonians are being "persecuted" for our differening viewpoints/perspectives.
Oh yes - much more fitting analogies of H/Hr oppression! Shippers being burned at the stake! Mass genocide!
lovesharry: Emerson could very well be scared that the H/Hr shippers are right about HP. He may be buddies with JKR but I'm sure she will NOTshare anything about book 7 with him. And yes, book 7 is still this huge literary enigma. Nobody but JKR knows the outcome. So, I think we are back to square one (before HBP) and the question again is - Will it be R/Hr or H/Hr? Since Harry did break off his relationship with Ginny in HBP, then I believe Ginny is no longer a part of the romance triangle.
Um, dude, did you even read book 6? Or the interview? Or seen Spider-Man?
This next one by "Redemption" is a gift to me from God - this kind of insanity doesn't come my way very often. The first part of the tirade contained the usual stuff about me being the spawn of satan, so I'll spare you and move straight to the good stuff. This is a long one, so if you just want a tree-tops review, read the bolded text and skip the rest. Thanks to sabinelagrande for the icon.
JKR sold the movie- and merchandise-rights of HP to [Warner Bros., which is owned by] AOLTimewarner, so everytime you and I paid money to see a HP-movie in cinemas and everytime someone bought HP-merchandise we have supported forced abortions in China.
That's right, kids...
Meh, now you ask yourself what the crazy tin-foil-hat conspiracy nutcases are talking about now.
Can I ask you a question, deary? Are you wearing anything silver and shiny on your head right now?
This man:
http://www.frostwald.de/turner.bmp is Ted Turner, media super-mogul and vice-chairman of TimeWarner until 2003. He gave 1 billion$ to the U.N. in order to support a global "de-population policy". Turner’s gift, it turns out, is not as generous as described in media reports. An amount of up to $1 billion will be donated in the form of Time-Warner stock in ten annual installments. The cost to Turner could be significantly less than $1 billion if he takes advantage of tax write-offs, tax deductions and ways to avoid estate taxes. Amazingly, USA Today claims "Turner, or at least his heirs, could end up $100 million richer because he’s giving a billion away."
Turner has a long history of support for population control activities. Turner and wife Jane Fonda served as "Goodwill Ambassadors" for UNFPA. Fonda now leads a Georgia campaign against teen pregnancy, partly funded by a private condom maker.
JANE FONDA IS AGAINST TEENAGERS HAVING SEX AND GETTING PREGNANT! OMG! I'm never buying another one of her workout videos again!
According to Nicholas Eberstadt, a population expert with the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., Turner is on record in favor of a radical policy that Eberstadt calls "de-population." As recently as last month, the father of five children called for a worldwide one-child-per-family policy to reduce the world population. "We could do it in a very humane way, if everybody adopted a one-child policy for 100 years," Turner told participants at the annual meeting of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association in Washington, D.C.
Once honored as "Humanist of the Year" by the American Humanist Association, Turner’s stridency on population control has earned him a reputation as an anti-Christian bigot. In remarks last October to the Society of Environmental Journalists, he complained that the Judeo-Christian tradition emphasizes "dominion over everything" and "increase and multiply." Turner once told a Dallas Morning News reporter that Christianity is "a religion for losers" and "I don’t want anybody [i.e., Jesus Christ] to die for me."
Wirth also is no stranger to population control efforts. In addition to his Planned Parenthood work in Colorado, Wirth led the State Depart-ment’s defense of a Clinton administration decision to deport several Chinese women who sought asylum in the U.S. to avoid forced abortion and sterilization in their native country.
At the urging of Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), chairman of the House Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, Congress has cut off federal funds for UNFPA because the agency has been accused of compliance with the brutal Chinese population control program of one-child-per-family. Congressional hearings have disclosed that the Chinese government has forced many women to have abortions when they exceeded their one-child limit. Some women have testified that they were physically assaulted and forced to undergo abortions when they tried to carry a second child to term. In some cases, baby girls were allegedly abandoned or starved to death in government-run orphanages because of China’s cultural preference for male children.
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/turner.htm So you see: There is more than enough reason to dislike JKR and the whole HP-industry. Emerson and Melissa are obviously part of this industry .
Alas. Exposed.
