[ SECRET POST #2252 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2252 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Billie Piper - Doctor Who/Secret Diary of a Call Girl]


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03.
[Steam Powered Giraffe]


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04.
[Teen Wolf]


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05.
[Kuroko no Basket]


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06.
[Princess Tutu]


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07.
[Kuroshitsuji]


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08.
[Queer as Folk]


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09.
[The Reward]


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10.
[Spartacus: War of the Damned]


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11.
[The Following]


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12.
[Les dossiers du Professeur Bell]


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13.
[Misfits]


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14.
[Saint's Row The Third]


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15.
[Penn and Teller]


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[Harry Potter]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 093 secrets from Secret Submission Post #322.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think you're reading too much into the books. They were for children remember. Yes, they were fun to read and everyone went crazy over them, but sometimes I feel like people give JKR waaay too much credit for her writing. Just because you can read into something doesn't mean it was intentional.

For example, page 324 of The Order of the Phoenix = are six consecutive descriptions of the way people speak.
"...said Snape maliciously,"
"... said Harry furiously",
" ... he said glumly",
"... said Hermione severely",
"... said Ron indignantly",
" ... said Hermione loftily".

[(Anonymous)]

+1 to this. Just because you think you see something doesn't mean the author meant it.

[sugar_spun]

I'm going to go ahead and point out that you pulled this from a The Guardian article.

I agree with your overall sentiment, but reading the vitriol behind the article, I'm going to assume they were cherry picking. Not to mention I'd be curious to look at some more modern quality literature to compare.

But as I said, I agree. People give the series way too much credit. It's simply ludicrous to say that Rowling was trying to create this really complex reflection of modern society blah blah no it wasn't. It's the same crap people always say when the kid's media they like is popular with adults.

[(Anonymous)]

Well obviously I pulled that example from somewhere, I don't have the entire 7 books memorised with all the writing mistakes highlighted. Whatever their intentions are it doesn't matter, I only copied the bad writing example which holds true here.

[vicfrankenstein]

I disagree with this entire sentiment for a number of reasons. I'll use John Green as my example because, well. http://youtu.be/MSYw502dJNY?t=2m3s This piece of video plus he writes for preteens but it doesn't make his books any less deep and meaningful.

1. Okay not John Green related, but the series was written to grow up WITH Harry so, I mean, The last few AREN'T for kids.
2. Being for kids doesn't mean it can't have meaning. Again, as I said John Green writes for "kids". But, I mean, Looking For Alaska made me cry a fucload at 24.
3. Whether or not an author intended a book to mean something doesn't mean it's not there. (See: youtube video)

Seriously, whether JKR intended all this meaning or not? Doesn't. Matter. Why should it? It's about what people experience from the book. If you experience nothing and don't care, cool , whatever. But why go around and tell people they "read too much into it" when it means more to them, than it does to you? Because honestly, this isn't reading too much into it. If they scoured all books for every reference of character A looking at character B to prove they're actually deeply in love, that might be. But also, who cares if they do?

[celestinenox]

I've always said that Rowling's writing is mediocre at best (it gets better towards the end in some ways). For me, it's her world building and characterizations that hooked me.