Second part of Molly Ringwraith's Harry Potter Parody is up!

[neadods]

mollyringwraith has finished her hilarious Half Blood Prince parody.



CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

HERMIONE: Neato! So you'll be out to destroy Voldemort!
HARRY: Well, I have been trying to do that for years, but yes. So, what's new around here?
RON: Lavender and I broke up. No biggie. Ginny and Dean too. ...Harry? You still with us?
HARRY: I wasn't thinking about your sister! Don't hit me!
RON: What?
HARRY: ...nothing...
HARRY obsesses about his romantic dilemma for a while. The book says, and I quote, "The battle still raged inside his head: Ginny or Ron?" As a consequence, several dirty-minded READERS snicker. Then he swings into the 7th-floor boys' bathroom and finds DRACO sobbing at one of the sinks while MOANING MYRTLE tries to console him.
HARRY/DRACO SHIPPERS: (nearly fainting) Oh my God, it's the best hurt/comfort setup ever!!! Hug him!! Hug him!!!

and

DUMBLEDORE: Don't disturb the water.
HARRY: Big thing with tentacles going to reach out and grab me?
DUMBLEDORE: We'll find out when we take this boat into the water to get the Horcrux.
They start gliding out into the lake in the world's dinkiest lifeboat.
HARRY: Professor! There are dead things, dead faces, in the water!
DUMBLEDORE: I swear to Godric Gryffindor, Harry, if you don't stop quoting 'Lord of the Rings', I'm going to throw you in.

Comments

[neadods.livejournal.com]

But when you start to have a lot of people see a different story than you think you're telling, you're doing something wrong

Considering the size of her audience, "a lot of people" insisting that they know better than she does still is only a fraction of the whole. And I see it from her side - she's been living with this story for a very long time and people are pressing her harder and harder and harder to do it "their" way.

But I don't think that Rowling's evil for laughing, particularly considering how badly she was pre-emptively treated by those people for the crime of telling her story her way.

I also think that while she is doubtless tired, there was a cutoff built in from the moment she started the series. Personally, I think that's probably WHY she's under so much pressure now - fans think that there's only one more book to "fix" it their way. No matter what other fans want, much less her.

[maryannegruen.livejournal.com]

Everyone in any position of leadership will of course have naysayers. It's a given. Some of them will be loud. It goes with the territory, whether you're a teacher, or an office supervisor, or a director, or any kind of creative person, or a mommy (to either human or fur-kids). There's going to be guaranteed grumbling.

Smart leaders deal with it by standing calmly by and letting the kids have their tantrum. The kids run out of energy and stop kicking he floor. Then the leader (or mommy) calmly resumes the direction they were always going in. Smart parents and leaders don't get down on the floor and start kicking and screaming with the kids. Things will just get louder and nothing will get accomplished. Rowling is acting as childishly as her temper tantrum throwing fans.

A lot of creative folks who've made the really big time have this complaint. They want fame, but then resent being owned by the audience. Unfortunately, you usually can't have one without the other. Some come to hate the audience. But the fact remains, Rowling is in the position of power here. They can't force her to change her story. And the hubbub will mostly only get her books additional press and up her sales.

No matter how many possible endings or storylines there are, Rowling, like other creative folks, can only choose one. And it's a given that it won't please everyone. Get a large group of people together for lunch and there's sure to be someone who won't like the seafood restaurant that most of you want to go to. If you want to keep that person as a friend, you try to make sure there's something there they can eat or you give them first choice next time out. If you don't want them as a friend, you ignore them till they go away.

Rowling shouldn't be letting these people get to her. But she should be facing the fact that if there are a lot of them, she's made some story telling mistakes. Complaining fans can be a good way of letting you know when you've gone off track.

I think Rowling made her hints way too weak. And that the story she was telling came across in a way she didn't mean it to, probably because of the story telling style. She probably should have had Harry notice the attraction between his two friends a while ago so it was more obvious and the audience was actually looking forward to it. Like I said, I think she's got a backstory in her head that the audience isn't privy to. If the audience doesn't see it, it's not there as far as they're concerned. That's not their fault, it's hers. Artists step back from their paintings and look at them from a distance as they work for a reason. They're trying to look at things from the perspective of the viewer, instead of the artist, to see if their vision is coming across. They know if it isn't, it's not the audience's fault, it's theirs.

If Rowling specifically chose not to put anymore in because romance wasn't what the story was about, then she should just let the fans fume on and avoid them if she has to. She shouldn't be feeding the trolls.

No creative person can control the way the audience sees things. Once your creation leaves you and goes out into the world, it's no longer yours. It's like a child you've given birth to, that goes out and creates new friends and a life apart from you. The only way to have total control over any work, is to never let it leave your hands.