Rowling Roars
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The only unequivocal thing about a vote for a third party is that it abdicates one's ability to choose the lesser of two evils. The point of it is some combination of hopefulness that it will eventually help a three party system catch on, and a desire to not feel like whatever the result is, was in any way your fault.
Education is extremely important.
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@Horace said in Rowling Roars:
The only unequivocal thing about a vote for a third party is that it abdicates one's ability to choose the lesser of two evils. The point of it is some combination of hopefulness that it will eventually help a three party system catch on, and a desire to not feel like whatever the result is, was in any way your fault.
Not for me. For me the point is to vote for who I actually want to have the job, not the lesser of two evils. It's a more honest vote when you hate both frontrunners. I don't want to abdicate my responsibility, I want to actively participate in it and take it seriously.
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For much of my life I voted third party. I thought I was striking a blow for making known my true wishes, and that when the Majors saw the third's influence, they would do better. Then one day I realized that I was indulging in the ultimate naivete. The Majors didn't, and never would, care about any third; they knew they'd never have to, and their prime objective was not the honorable husbanding of the country, but their own survival.
That was a sad day for me.
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Since Universal has dropped millions on Potterdom and has a contract with Rowling...A solution...
Maybe Harry can have a midlife crisis, leave his wife Jenny and become transgendered. In the meantime, Hermione, who has finally given in to her true lesbian self, leaves her husband Ron, for Harriet.
Rowling has admitted she screwed up the ending of the Harry Potter series, and the best wizard of his age should have fallen in love with the best witch, and lived happily ever after. This way, it comes to pass, although in an altered form. Radcliffe and Watson could certainly be hired to reprise their roles for the right
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Yeah. I'm going to be over there, watching Face The Music.
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@Mik said in Rowling Roars:
I never bought Hermione and Ron. Never. It made no sense.
Sure it does. I refer you to Rocky's explanation of why he and Adrian got along.
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Meh, the real problem was that somewhere along the way she forgot to continue to develop Ron and he became comic relief. You could see the path she was headed in with him, but quite frankly, she never rounded him out. Instead of more of the boy that played the most brilliant game of Wizards Chess Hogwart’s had ever seen, we got too much of the kid who was barfing up slugs because of his wand backfiring over and over. Instead of the boy that played an astounding game of quidditch when his confidence was up and learning from that, they focused too hard in the movies of how ridiculous he was before that, then had him acting like a complete fool with Lavender. It was much worse in the movies than it was in the books.
Ron was supposed to kind of encapsulate a little of the best of the Weasley boys. Not quote as athletic as Charlie, but a little better more than the others, not quite as cool as Bill, but maybe a little more adept than Percy and the twins. He carried some of Percy’s nature for leadership (Prefect) while also being willing to break the rules like Fred & George. He always felt lost in the middle of all of them, but ultimately should have been the best of them.
He was a good enough Wizard to get all of his OWL’s necessary to pursue a career as an Auror, yet they always made him out to be a joke as a Wizard.
I blame the movies. Ron was developing in the books, but by the time you got to the last 2 books, the movies were catching up and I think the movie characterization of Ron as a screwup and as comic relief influenced Rowling. Plus, it was helped that the actor became rather goofy looking as an adult...
