Someone please tell me this is a parody?
Sep. 24th, 2014 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
minavoxSo, apparently there's a mother on ff.net (with the charming username Proudhousewife...) rewriting Harry Potter for Christian purposes? And Hogwarts now is a School of Prayer and Miracles??? Please let this be a parody, because so much stupidity just does not compute with a belief in human intelligence, over all. Let alone belief in the human ability to read - Ron advocating Slytherin? But perhaps it's all because of the power of the blue shoes of sadness: "I don't have a mommy or daddy," Harry replied sadly; and looked at his raggedy, old shoes that were blue. Perhaps that was why he felt so lonely, he thought, not for the first time. Or the power of Hagrid's lovingly described chesthair.
However, the comments are brilliant:
It was such a lovely break to read your parody of Harry Potter, which took a heart of similarity with the original text before adducing a critical distance, permitting the introduction of irony (Hutcheon). (...) The pertly intolerant voice of Harry, gleefully neglectful of the respect due to his aunt after her hard day at work and the chocolately deliciousness of the brownies that his uncle so kindly baked in combination with the mystically fast way in which he gains his biblical knowledge jolts the reader out of reading and brings them to the realisation of the constructed nature of the text which they are reading, thereby highlighting the importance of critical reading.
I'm excited to read further installments, in no small part due to the erotic potentiality of the luscious descriptions of Dumbledore and Snape's chest hair, I do so love Dumbledore slash and the front of religious pastor secretly having a gay affair on the side is a masterful commentary upon the problems of self denial.
However, the comments are brilliant:
It was such a lovely break to read your parody of Harry Potter, which took a heart of similarity with the original text before adducing a critical distance, permitting the introduction of irony (Hutcheon). (...) The pertly intolerant voice of Harry, gleefully neglectful of the respect due to his aunt after her hard day at work and the chocolately deliciousness of the brownies that his uncle so kindly baked in combination with the mystically fast way in which he gains his biblical knowledge jolts the reader out of reading and brings them to the realisation of the constructed nature of the text which they are reading, thereby highlighting the importance of critical reading.
I'm excited to read further installments, in no small part due to the erotic potentiality of the luscious descriptions of Dumbledore and Snape's chest hair, I do so love Dumbledore slash and the front of religious pastor secretly having a gay affair on the side is a masterful commentary upon the problems of self denial.
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Date: 2014-09-24 03:22 pm (UTC)Maybe I should print a page or so to use as an explanation of parody or something at School. Heh!