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Rowling released "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" to the public

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  • #16
    It's amazing how easily stupid people inject their pet issues into completely unrelated topics.
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    • #17
      Originally posted by Agathon


      I've been anti Harry snobtard and his amazing upper class pals for ages. I guess J.K. Rowling deserves props for realizing that the public would go for a rehash of 1950s English public school literature just as long as it was changed into a "magic school".
      ...and it was funny.

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      • #18
        Poor Aggie.
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        "Capitalism ho!"

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        • #19
          Condescending DaShi.

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          • #20
            Originally posted by aneeshm




            What's upper class about them? I found Harry and his friends, and the books in general, pretty plebeian in their character.
            That's because you come from India...

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            • #21
              Originally posted by Winston
              Condescending DaShi.
              For feeling bad that Aggie can't enjoy Harry Potter?
              “As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
              "Capitalism ho!"

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              • #22
                Rowling told the whole story of Beedle the Bard in the 7th Harry Potter book. What's the point of reprinting it seperately? If she wants to go all J. R. Tolkien on us she should do a book or two on the foundation of Hogwart's or the Gremlin wars, or Godric's Hollow or whatever the treaty was which forced wizards to conceal their magic. To do so would require her to learn something about medieval English society, and I'm not sure she's up to that.
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                • #23
                  Doc, these are not the story of Beedle himself, but the set of Tales Dumbledore willed to Hermione. You know, the ones that included "Rabbitty Babbitty and her Cackling Stump" or some such.
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                  • #24


                    Also Rowling is working on an encyclopedia which likely will have all the fun stuff about the treaties on Hogwarts and all that.
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