Harry potter 7 leaked?

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Actually the core of my Potter know-how is limited to the fact that he's a Timothy Hunter rip-off and that entire phenomena called "Snape killed Gandalf" (thanks to a lot of amusing jpeg's from SomethingAweful).
 
Yamaraj said:
It's naive and plain stupid to stand in queue for a "seventh in the series". Even movie-goers and cricket-fans are smarter. Seldom do they ponder over the 3rd in a trology or the fifth day in a test match.
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So going by your logic, If you like a TV Series, you watch only the first episode, because watching the rest of them is "plain stupid" :rofl: :tongue:

If you are watching a cricket match, you watch only the first innings, watching the second is "plain stupid" :rofl: :tongue:

Your schooling is only upto the 1 standard. going through the 2nd, 3rd standard and so on is "plain stupid" :rofl: :tongue:

or when you gave your exams, you give only the first one, giving the rest of them is so monotonous and plain stupid :rofl: :tongue:
btw, Harry Potter was never intended for kids, its just that it caught up with the kids and the later marketing was done as such. similarly Tom Sawyer or Robinson Crusoe were never intended for children. You wound not be able to even read an un-abridged version of those books without a very good knowledge of old English. Ever read an unabridged translation of Arabian Nights tales. If that book is given a rating like the movies, it would get an X rating.

And whats wrong with reading a book even if its originally written for kids. I read the Harry Potter series when I was 25 and doing my M.Tech. bought the first 4 books at a time and finished them in the next 4 days.
 
i agree with yamaraj....its just too much ado about nothing this harry potter ...it was a perfectly marketable product and then once it took over ...theres nothing to stop it , its just a childrens tale, hey i would even rank tintin and asterix to be better than this......harry potter just shows how marketing can just change people's perception of things
 
^^Its exactly the opposite.HP was famous before the media cought it (IIRC HP marketing started in a big way from book 4.till then it was all word of mouth.)
 
Lord Nemesis said:
So going by your logic, If you like a TV Series, you watch only the first episode, because watching the rest of them is "plain stupid" :rofl: :tongue:
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I don't watch TV. Besides, given how the soaps stretch over 500-1000 episodes and even more, I doubt any sane person can sit through "The End".

Lord Nemesis said:
If you are watching a cricket match, you watch only the first innings, watching the second is "plain stupid" :rofl: :tongue:
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I'm not into Cricket. But if you notice, on the fifth day of a test match, only a fifth of the 1st-day viewers make it to their chairs.

Lord Nemesis said:
Your schooling is only upto the 1 standard. going through the 2nd, 3rd standard and so on is "plain stupid" :rofl: :tongue:
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Bad analogy. It's actually the last few years of your education that counts in the Real World(TM). While it's just the opposite in case of movies and pseudo-literature like the "Hariya Puttar" series.

Lord Nemesis said:
or when you gave your exams, you give only the first one, giving the rest of them is so monotonous and plain stupid :rofl: :tongue:
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What was that?

Lord Nemesis said:
btw, Harry Potter was never intended for kids, its just that it caught up with the kids and the later marketing was done as such. similarly Tom Sawyer or Robinson Crusoe were never intended for children. You wound not be able to even read an un-abridged version of those books without a very good knowledge of old English. Ever read an unabridged translation of Arabian Nights tales. If that book is given a rating like the movies, it would get an X rating.
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Thanks for telling me that! I never knew that Rolling ate Shakespeare for lunch and HP is more popular among Oxford literature students than Hamlet. :ashamed:

Lord Nemesis said:
And whats wrong with reading a book even if its originally written for kids. I read the Harry Potter series when I was 25 and doing my M.Tech. bought the first 4 books at a time and finished them in the next 4 days.
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Here comes the original confession! There is nothing wrong in reading literature for kids even if you're an adult - because adults like you are mostly "overgrown kids". :rofl:

I wonder how many on this forum have even heard of Kurt Vonnegut and that he passed away a few days back? :(
 
This is so stupid..... I am not going to bother arguing with such a pompous moron who believes reading Harry Potter is following the hype....

sheeesh.... Till now, I kinda used to take Yamaraj's posts seriously as he used to make sense...

I have realised how wrong I was... damn.
 
Like Kumar said HP was very popular before Media took over,

I also I will let you know one interesting fact

My cuz from london told me to check out Harry Potter Series and its quite gud, I didnt bother but after 8-10 months I read an article in the newspaper how it has taken over the teenagers n adults alike with its fantastic story line.........

It was only then when I made my first purchase.....

Also to think of......

Dont Pre Teens n Teens.... watch "ahem" stuff meant for adults :P
 
Peace guys..:P

Well, i too think tht there isnt anything wrong with reading kids books when u grow up...its just a way to make up for what you missed in your kiddy days..:P n if u can still enjoy it, its all tht matters..:D

I for one, still love to read Tintin Adventure stories a lot..n need i say, i'm loving it even at 25 ?? Blistering barnacles..!! :bleh:

N though i dont get the time to watch TV a lot these days, i dont miss a chance to watch Ducktails, Talespin or Tom n Jerry if i can..and its as refreshing and hilarious as it seemed when i was a kid..

If saying '18 till i die' is considered being hip, why cant sayin '10 till i die' be so..?? :P
 
tintin has more literary value than harry potter imho :) and relax guys ....theres nothing wrong in getting caught in the marketing hype...all of us do one way or the other ..... this book is also successful because its easy to read but apart from that ...its no holy grail
 
Excellent :D I love juicy arguments :devil: Lets take it step by step. Yamaraj, are you saying that nothing which is hyped so much can possibly be good?
So many people read LOTR only after the hype generated by the movies. So would you say even that is childish crap?
 
nope its not.... its plain literary reading now worth the hype its getting ... it generated the hype which pushed the market for it and inturn is generating more hype....its not crap.... its a very simple book and they are milking it for everything that they can get....but it should not be on that high a list of bestsellers
 
Ok, so you're saying the potter is not all that great, and we should not get so excited about it. Can you suggest some other books worth getting excited about?
 
so that you can reverse the arguement and say that you dont like them ??? no...thats kiddish ...why dont you tell me whats great about harry potter...and why you like it?
 
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