Comments on: Oh right, as if this 12-year-old girl hasn’t read every Twilight book cover-to-cover 6 times…

By: mkilby

mkilby — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:35:15 +0000

Rowling didn’t just end the series, she carefully added a coda at the end of the last book, showing that Harry enjoyed a trouble-free life for decades after the end of the last story. It was an ingenious strategic move: fanfic is impossible to repress, but now none of the HP-fanfic can claim to belong to the official “canon” if it tries to ressurrect the Harry vs. Voldemort conflict.

That said, I gave up on Rowling entirely after book four. I didn’t mind her arbitrariness as long as HP remained relatively care-free children’s fare (as PeterW said in (2), that lasted to the middle of book four), but when the books started being arbitrarily manipulative, I quit.

By: Daniel J. Drazen

Daniel J. Drazen — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:33:43 +0000

Why does she think that Potter is over just because Rowling wrapped up the series? There are something like a quarter million Potter fanfics at sites like Fiction-Alley and fanfiction.net. If she still wants to live the vida Hogwarts she should start making up her own stories. Kids these days….

By: Vicky

Vicky — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:50:42 +0000

Funny that you should metnion twilight here ’cause she’s talking about stuff present in the books- if that had been the title of this strip, then it would have looked like the author would have been poking fun at twilight

I wasnt obsessed with twilight when i was 12, or even read it then..but she probably did

By: Cidu Bill

Cidu Bill — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:33:14 +0000

Slager, the corolation I was making was not between Harry Potter and Twilight, but rather between 12-year-old girls and Twilight. And of course not all 12-year-old girls are Twilight fanatics — but I’d guess Hillary would be, especially if she doesn’t read enough to know good books from bad.

By: Slager

Slager — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:59:44 +0000

Love of Harry Potter does not equal love of Twilight! That’s fo’ sho’!

By: Jeff S.

Jeff S. — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:53:31 +0000

My daughter is 12 and HATES the Twilight series. I don’t think she got past the first one, even though we own them all. We saw the first movie, but she never once asked to see the second one. In fact, she turned down an opportunity to see it when offered.

Now, she hasn’t completed the HP series yet, only because we don’t own book 6. We DID stand in line until midnight to get the last book though. She doesn’t want to crack it until she reads #6, and in a small part because she doesn’t want it to end.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:03:52 +0000

Chuck #8 & Dave in Boston #10

You are both of course right. The end of a standalone book can be just as devastating as the end of a series. Perhaps even more

I stand corrected

By: Mark in Boston

Mark in Boston — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:49:59 +0000

Well, I suppose she could read “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” by Charles Dickens, or any other unfinished novel.

By: Ted in Fort Lauderdale

Ted in Fort Lauderdale — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:18:49 +0000

DemetriosX - sometime in (I believe) December, Hillary and Faye were making snowmen and referred to themselves as 12-year-olds…

By: hm

hm — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:55:10 +0000

my 11 year old finished all the HP books 2 years ago (we started out reading them together so I could make sure they were okay, but I couldn’t keep up with her), and is not at all interested in Twilight. Percy Jackson and the Olympians is another matter entirely, I believe I have been told about 93 times that the first movie is coming out THIS FRIDAY, MOM!