Well, I got up this morning and there in the mailbox was the new Harry Potter. I had ordered it months ago from Amazon.com, and arrived it did, right on time. I read it in about two hours, so hungry was I to hear the new adventures of my Harry, Hermione and that Ron!
I enjoyed it mostly, but am stuck on about five points, that just won`t puzzle themselves out. (I should say, this review is only as truthful as mainstream press reporting of almost any serious issue, really, but why should that stop anyone from believing everything they`re ever told?) Anyway,
1. I was surprised by the amount of sex in the story. I mean, I know the kids are older, and I knew Harry was gay (big surprise, right?), but then it was like, on every page somebody was snogging somebody else. Students and teachers, boys and girls, girls and girls, boys and fauns, etc.
What really threw me was that Hermione was going with a centaur. I mean, I just hadn`t pictured her like that. But you know what they say, once you go Centaur, you never go Muggle. Maybe so, maybe so.
2. I was surprised by all the drug use. I mean, a lot of the characters had grown up and were really crazily abusing drugs. That felt, you know, wrong, to me.
Ron was a total dealer, and I could sort of see that, but Hermione and some of the other girls were like, heavy into crack! Which just felt so weird! I mean, how did they get it at Hogwarts? That never got answered. But there it was, and I suppose that`s, you know, more close to the `real-life` ethic in the later stories, because now they`re Hollywood movies, so, you know, they have to go that way, or can`t get any Oscar consideration.
3. I was surprised that Severus Snape just walked up behind Harry and just killed him for no reason, just cut his throat with a knife that he`d been hiding in his sleeve, and then just walked away, while nobody said anything. It was a really, like, total wft moment, really. I mean, not even Hermione really said anything, she barely looked up. But I guess that was the drugs?
4. So much of the story took place in Las Vegas. WEIRD.
5. That the whole thing was a dream. I mean, that`s the last bit, Snape walks up to Harry, ends it, and then, it`s like, ?It was all a dream of Neville Longbottom,? who is really a dockworker in Liverpool, England who is addicted to Oxycodone. So, that was WEIRD, you know? I mean, I really didn`t see that coming.
Maybe that`s why everyone else was a drug addict ? because it was told through the perspective of a drug addict. Anyway, some weird, weird stuff, but I mostly liked it. Can`t wait for the next one.
Likewise, I hope the mainstream media, left and right, keeps doing a bang-up job digging deep into cultural truths and getting beyone populist fictions in its excellent coverage of the world as we know it. I know that Rupert Murdoch`s acquisition of the Wall Street Journal will only go to raise the high standard of truth-telling now embodied by the vibrant and lively fourth (fifth and sixth) estate.
By Martin Cutlut
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