The Hermione Granger series by J.K. Rowling...

[ChristianBecker]

Someone wrote an article about the Harry Potter (or as they call it: Hermione Granger) series.
It's somehow interesting, but I really don't know what to make of it:
http://globalcomment.com/2011/in-praise ... er-series/

What do you think?

 

[Tonyblack]

What a clever way of poking fun out of the series.

 

[meerkat]

Well, I thought it was amusing, Stupid but amusing!

 

[DaveC]

That was kind of funny. It does make you wonder why Rowling didn't create a female lead.

 

[Willem]

Probably for the reason stated: boys don't like reading about female main characters. I know a Dutch children's author (female herself) who does the same for that reason.
Sad but true.

 

[deldaisy]

I liked that. My oldest was a Harry Potter fan BIG TIME! (shades of obsession). We used to talk about Hermione always bailing Harry out. But then she was an overachiever at school too.... so.

Then again.... Penny was always getting Inspector Gadget out of the poo too.

Other examples?

 

[Tonyblack]

My favourite character from the books was Luna. It's a shame there wasn't more about her in there.

 

[meerkat]

I liked Neville. I wanted to know his exam results cos he got to be Profeeser of Herbology!

 

[Tonyblack]

I liked Neville. I wanted to know his exam results cos he got to be Profeeser of Herbology!

Oh yes, I'd forgotten Neville! I liked him as well.

 

[Willem]

One more for the Neville camp. There used to be a theory that he was the actual chosen one, and that Gandalf, sorry, Dumbledore, was using Harry as a decoy. I would've loved that

 

[CrysaniaMajere]

Girls don't buy books??? All the books-eating readers I know are females!
At the moment I can't think of a single man I know that loves reading books..

Hiding her own gender using only the initials... you know, it's the first time I think of it like that. I've always known who she was, so never paid attention to it.
I remember a woman did the same thing when she was writing for Star Trek:TOS, using her initials to hide that she was a woman from the public who wouldn't accept sciencefiction from a woman!

 

[Tonyblack]

I remember a woman did the same thing when she was writing for Star Trek:TOS, using her initials to hide that she was a woman from the public who wouldn't accept sciencefiction from a woman!

There's an episode of Deep Space Nine (Far Beyond The Stars) that covers this problem. They have a woman writing for a pulp Sci-Fi magazine using her initials to hide her gender and a black man writing about a black captain of a space station and his story being refused because it would be unbelievable to white people.

 

[CrysaniaMajere]

I remember a woman did the same thing when she was writing for Star Trek:TOS, using her initials to hide that she was a woman from the public who wouldn't accept sciencefiction from a woman!

There's an episode of Deep Space Nine (Far Beyond The Stars) that covers this problem. They have a woman writing for a pulp Sci-Fi magazine using her initials to hide her gender and a black man writing about a black captain of a space station and his story being refused because it would be unbelievable to white people.

Yeah, I remember that one too. Nice episode, where you could see all actors' real face, what's under the alien mask
I was referring to D.C. Fontana, who wrote some of the early episodes. She's actually Dorothy Catherine, and now i've seen her in some "star trek special", but at the time, she had to use that 'trick'. And the sad thing is that is not all men's fault, but mostly other women's .

 

[Temple_maiden]

Well in the past it was common for a woman to write under a male pen name as women would not be accepted as serious writers as everyone knew women had no brains.

Famous examples include:
George Eliot - real name, Mary Anne Evans
Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, who we now know as Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë
A M Barnard - Louisa May Alcott
Marion Zimmer Bradley had four pen names, three of which were male
George Sand - famous for being Chopin's mistress - real name Amantine Dupin

 

[BatrickPatrick]

All the angry comments made me laugh. People can't take a joke

 

[ChristianBecker]

Well, I'm not so sure it WAS a joke.
What I find fascinating is that Rowling (Hah!) had a talent to create likeable characters yet at the very same time came up with Snape (ok, he had something going for him(, Rita Skeeter and Dolores Umbridge (did you know that "dolores" is Latin for pain (actually plural, pains) -certainly caused me some).

 

[BatrickPatrick]

Well, it's satire, which is meant to have a comical edge to it. I found it funny anyway.

 

[Tiffany]

Girls don't buy books??? All the books-eating readers I know are females!
At the moment I can't think of a single man I know that loves reading books..

Hiding her own gender using only the initials... you know, it's the first time I think of it like that. I've always known who she was, so never paid attention to it.
I remember a woman did the same thing when she was writing for Star Trek:TOS, using her initials to hide that she was a woman from the public who wouldn't accept sciencefiction from a woman!

Same here, I don't know any man who actually reads a proper book.

I knew she was female too & never thought she was hiding her identity.

Interesting article & funny.

 

[Maura:-D]

My favourite character from the books was Luna. It's a shame there wasn't more about her in there.

I love Luna. She's fantastic. And in the movies they capture her brilliantly.

I love the HP series, but I found that an extremely amusing article. Hermione is great. But I'm like her! I even have the hair!

 

[stripy_tie]

My favourite character from the books was Luna. It's a shame there wasn't more about her in there.

Me too, wish there were more chapters with her in them. She was such a brilliant character, so completely honest and unashamed.