Bogus Harry Potter Book In China

elveu writes "Chinese Harry Potter fans have been blessed with the fifth book early -- only it's not the real one. The title translates to 'Harry Potter And Leopard Walk Up To Dragon.' The story has Harry getting turned into a fat hairy drawf and being void of his powers."

Comments

Re:They used her picture on the back of the book..

[Zeinfeld]

That Flintstones bit was weird enough,

The Flintstones was intended as an ironic satire of 'modern' conveniences. Each week there would be a different gadget such as a dishwasher or a gramaphone that was powered by dinosaur.

Rowling uses the same joke throughout the Harry Potter books, except that instead of dinosaurs, magic is used as a substitute for electricity etc. etc.

Re:They used her picture on the back of the book..

[Zeinfeld]

It's a parody of critical theory that amuses only those who know so little about critical theory, that they might actually think that the satirical gun was loaded. It wasn't.

I thought it was reasonably obvious that the main point of comparison between the two was that in both cases people worry excessively about what they are and are not seen to read.

In the case of post-modern philosophy there are certainly pseuds who read the stuff to look trendy. But the anti-faction are just as ignorant, in most cases criticising work they haven't read.

With Harry Potter, the humourless jerks who are saying that they wouldn't be seen reading it past the age of 14 never read anything more intellectual than the Penthouse letters page.