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AUGUST 5, 2003 at 9:16 PM
Posted by JAMES
Source: The Atlantic via The Leaky Cauldron
This current critique
is found, almost hidden, in an interview with The Atlantic in which Bloom is featured.
It never stopped. The damn piece was reprinted all over the world, in all languages. I will never hear the end of it. But of course, the Harry Potter series is rubbish. Like all rubbish, it will eventually be rubbed down. Time will obliterate it. What can one say?
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Points: 81
Malvagia says:
Blah Blah Blah.. I do believe I've heard all this jazz before ^_~.
These people are becoming more pathetic by the comment. Honestly, don't they have anything better to do? Why must they exploit their negativity for those who could care less?
If anything is rubbish and will be obliterateed, it's his completely untrue and pointless comments.
Oh well. Just let him and his fellow haters rant, nobody will care, regardless of how many times they publish long and tiring tirades.
Posted Aug 5, 2003 at 9:26 PM EST
Squib
Points: 191
kanismajor says:
To Bloom i say you brought it on your self!
Posted Aug 5, 2003 at 9:31 PM EST
Professor
Points: 1012
Imperio says:
Ah yes another jealous wannabe author who feels that JKR's books are shallow and meaningless. Obviously this person doesn't know how to read. Either that or they bought a copy of a different book with the HP covers because this is total codswallop as Hagrid would say.
Posted Aug 5, 2003 at 9:31 PM EST
Squib
Points: 142
Mad-Eye says:
I agree completely with you malvagia.
less and less people are caring about these losers who say things like this because it is becoming boring and repetitive
Posted Aug 5, 2003 at 9:37 PM EST
Auror
Points: 2773
Alessandra says:
Quite frankly, I bet lots of people never heard of this fellow until he started slamming a popular author.
Silly man.
Posted Aug 5, 2003 at 9:44 PM EST
Witch
Points: 975
Lilune says:
God that's annoying ... I'm glad he got all those letters of complaint over his crappy article (probably saying everything we're thinking) and hopefully he's learned his lesson not to mess with the Harry Potter fans!!
... and Time will NOT obliterate it!
Posted Aug 5, 2003 at 10:03 PM EST
Witch
Points: 917
Slytherin_Punk says:
OMG. DO these people ever get tired of talking about this stuff.
Posted Aug 5, 2003 at 10:08 PM EST
Squib
Points: 181
stupefy128 says:
I'm not going to start blabbing out likewell he shouldnt say those thing or somthing like that because he can say whatever he wants but all hes getting out of this is bad remarks. In his point of view it's like what he says multiplies into millions of the opposite things and shoots right back at him.
Posted Aug 5, 2003 at 10:15 PM EST
Student
Points: 237
Ellia Black says:
OH MY that artical was horendous(like my spelling!)
He is prob a very brilliant person and obviously he has his own opinions! Not every one can love Harry the way we do or the author for that matter.To Each His Own i say and to heck with him if he dosent like Harry!!!!hehehehe
I am trying to wake my self up after reading that rubbish:(
Posted Aug 5, 2003 at 10:22 PM EST
Witch
Points: 750
siriusgurl says:
It's rubbish. Thats the best they can think of? What ever stupid really. He does have the right to say what ever he wants, but he must really like hate mail or something....
Posted Aug 5, 2003 at 10:39 PM EST
Transfiguration Professor
Points: 2990
Choralee says:
Mr. Bloom obviously has no imagination! And has never read an HP novel from an objective point of view. Applause to all those people who wrote in the 'hate mail'. Only one letter in agreement? I would rethink my opinion if I was you, Mr. Bloom.
Posted Aug 5, 2003 at 10:49 PM EST
Witch
Points: 532
Obsessed-Harry-N-Dan-Fan says:
I agree with every comment here. so need i say more? i think i do. heres my opinion: they can say what they want but if its negative then they are just going to be hated more and more and theres no point in writing that kind of stuff. im sooo getting tired of hearing all these articles about negative views of harry potter. get a life people or be open minded and enjoy the books. they are sheer brilliance, i dont understand how people could not like them.
Posted Aug 5, 2003 at 11:00 PM EST
Order of Merlin, 2nd Class
Points: 1782
Juno Puddifoot says:
Well, you get people like him don't you? Insufferable really, with a hugely inflated idea of their own worth, knowledge ... like their opinion actually counts for something?? ... can't help but think well at least he got all that mail.
Posted Aug 5, 2003 at 11:23 PM EST
Student
Points: 251
Jupiter Lumos says:
Yes, the Harry Potter series is rubbish. That is why it has sold so many copies, has been translated into at least 20 languages, is continually receiving praises from book critics and has such an avid fan group. It’s Rubbish. Absolute rubbish!
Heh, I think someone is suffering from a wittle writers jealousy!
Posted Aug 6, 2003 at 12:05 AM EST
Squib
Points: 181
stupefy128 says:
Well rubbish will certainly be washed away, whoever said that. I think it's really good that they put it in alot of different languages so more people can enjoy the wonderful series. If you had your book go out into all the other languages then you would feel very proud of your self that you made a great novel. If you right bad about a good writer then it just makes you a bad writer and your stories will never make all the way that J.K. Rowlinds made it.
Posted Aug 6, 2003 at 12:30 AM EST
Auror
Points: 4247
gryfgirl says:
He sounds like an Umbridge - making "Law According To" decrees about what is or isn't acceptable. *blows him a raspberry that would make Peeves proud* heh
Posted Aug 6, 2003 at 4:35 AM EST
Witch
Points: 611
Mdm Rosmerta says:
Mr Bloom is entitled to his own opinion. He seems to be a rather conservative shakespeare admirer and I am not surprised that he take on Hary was not a favourable one. I have no doubt that he is a brilliant scolar.
However if one man's says Harry is rubbish doesn't make it true.
The fact that millions of people love, read and reread Harry Potter speaks for itself.
Posted Aug 6, 2003 at 4:59 AM EST
Points: 315
Momo_chan says:
Err.. Jupiter Lumos, I want to correct you.. It had been translated into at least 50 (or 55?) languages, not 20 languages :) What a rubbish thing??!? Harry Potter is really rubbish that sold in the whole world, in 55 languages, that people from many directions [kids, adults, poor, rich, celebrities, NASA, and so on] love it, that people reread them several times, that was become best seller, etc.. etc...
Pity that those people (who hate Harry) aren't given any chance to feel how great Harry Potter is ...
Posted Aug 6, 2003 at 5:16 AM EST
Witch
Points: 657
Wotcher_Tonks says:
I have decided after this I am no longer going to comment on critics who put the book/s down especially those who may
have either read only one or none of the books, Bloom is a literature snob and is living in the past and as for the rest anything for some publicity for their own poor efforts at writing.
I am convinced most of them only criticise to get some recognition so no more shall they be recognised by myself!
Posted Aug 6, 2003 at 5:32 AM EST
Professor
Points: 1188
sirius'doll says:
I understand that people have a right to have their own opinion (the whole Cuaron 3rd movie debarcle, I'm sure heaps of you know im talking about) BUT you would think that if someone thought it to be soo RUBBISH 1) they would REALLY not waste their time writing a peice on how they hated it. I mean why bother spending SOOO much time on something that you don't like i ask you. And 2) If you really didn't like something, and persisted wasting your time writing about it, then wouldn't you make a few relevent points, NOT hoot on about stretching legs (if that actually DID have a point I'm sorry, but i didn't read much, the peice sounded rubbish so i quit while i was ahead).
Posted Aug 6, 2003 at 5:35 AM EST
Order of Merlin, 1st Class
Points: 1990
HarrysGran says:
I think some of these critics are just jealous that another author can bewitch millions of people all around the whole world.
Harry Potter rocks! Until time ends! Yeah!
Posted Aug 6, 2003 at 6:47 AM EST
Professor
Points: 1124
mattie says:
I'm tiered of all thise people.... Wish they would keep there mouth shut. Well til someone really comes up with something serious i'm not gonna bother shouting up.
Kinda expected that there soon would come something up.... there does about every 3-4th day....
Posted Aug 6, 2003 at 10:16 AM EST
Squib
Points: 175
Magical Me says:
I bet that if Bloom was 15 again, living in our time, he would love the books. I just chalk his opinion up to his extreme love of other things, lie Shakespeare, and there is no room in his heart of Potter.
Posted Aug 6, 2003 at 10:22 AM EST
Points: 790
M. Sebastian says:
Perhaps Mr. Bloom should also rethink his analogy of comparing HP to "rubbish". Ask any archeologist and you will be told some of the most revealing and valuable knowledge of the past has come from "rubbish". Time does not always obliterate it. Some survives and becomes priceless.
And may I ask how many non-reading children have been turned into enthusiatic readers by Shakespeare? Mr. Bloom should be grateful to JKR for introducing the joy of reading so, perhaps, as these children mature they may enjoy his beloved Shakespeare.
Posted Aug 6, 2003 at 10:55 AM EST
Squib
Points: 163
ObsessedWithDan says:
I think he did write the letter in favor of his article beacause HP is NOT rubbish and the books will go on from generation to generation. People can be so picky!!
Posted Aug 6, 2003 at 12:20 PM EST
Head Boy
Points: 423
ApplebyArrows says:
Nobody cares about these people! Do they ever get tired of talking against Harry Potter? These people are boring me. Have they even read the books? Not like it will make a difference, because if the do, theey won't want to admit that they're wrong.
Posted Aug 6, 2003 at 12:28 PM EST
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