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Tirade of the day...Harry Potter

I understand that part of my duty as the Horror/sci-fi/fantasy films contributor is to cover subjects that I might be morally opposed to, case in point Harry Potter. I would have to have been reared in a cave not to be aware of the puzzling, yet unprecedented success of the Harry Potter book, movie, toy, trading card, candy, underwear...etc. phenomenon.

But does that make it good? No.

James Cameron, hack director, and self described "King of the World" took film critic Kenneth Turan to task for his less- than-glowing review of Titanic. Mr. Cameron argued that Titanic must be good because so many people were going to see it. Mr. Turan responded that just because people go to McDonalds en masse doesn't mean that anyone would want to hold a wedding reception there, well done Mr. Turan.

J.K. Rowling simply stood on the shoulders of giants in her attempt to repackage magic and mythology for the ADD set. Had none of these Potter fans heard of the Chronicles of Narnia before the films release? I understand that many children think of Narnia as a rip-off of Potters world, what does that say for society? Not much.

I am sorry if I offend but I must draw a line in the sand. Potter is simplistic and extremely derivative. Ms. Rowling simply re-named as many mythological creatures as her limited imagination could research and remake the works of Baum, Lewis, Carroll, Grimm, Tolkien, Nesbit. White, Dahl, and, well the list is too long to continue here.

Please, enjoy the works of Ms. Rowling if you must, it is a convenient way to abridge the works of the above authors, but remember there is more to life than plagiarism.

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