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Thread: No Transexuals in Harry Potter?
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07-17-2011 #11
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Re: No Transexuals in Harry Potter?
although i dont care that is not part of the movie.. you make a point..
in ancient texts ,, the intersexed is a crucial narrative plot in the understanding of the universe.. if i find some info i will post..
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07-17-2011 #12
Re: No Transexuals in Harry Potter?
There are comedy crossdressers (ala Milton Berle) in the 4th book.
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07-17-2011 #13
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07-17-2011 #14
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Re: No Transexuals in Harry Potter?
I don't recall too many transgender characters in Dickens, Zola or Steinbeck either.
What's your point?
My point, evident in the first post, was that JK Rowling had ransacked other people's and other culture's literary works to concoct her fantasy, so how did she manage to miss out on gender ambiguity? Mythological work often has this element in it; its not present in Dickens because Dickens was a moral coward; not present in Zola because he was a man of limited perception; and not in Steinbeck because he was an even greater coward than Dickens. More or less everything else is in Harry Potter as part of the wow-how-original-good-defeats-evil floss. Surely one of the magic pupils in Hogwarts would be blonde, cute and male? Hogwarts, after all, is a phantasmagoric version of Eton, Harrow, Charterhouse, Rugby and so on -where the privileged go to be educated, and where the introduction to sex was inevitably steered along male channels....surprised noone else has got it, unless -in the films anyway- Alan Rickman's character with his robes and long hair is a closet queen...??
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07-17-2011 #15
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Re: No Transexuals in Harry Potter?
So you want a TS to be included just so a TS is included?
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07-17-2011 #16
Re: No Transexuals in Harry Potter?
Watched the morning news today, no transsexuals in that either. Where can I complain?
Insert funny quote here
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07-18-2011 #17
Re: No Transexuals in Harry Potter?
Hermione and Fleur turn into Harry in Deathly Hallows.
They grew dicks and had them removed in the space of a couple of chapters. I'd say that counts as transition.
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07-18-2011 #18
Re: No Transexuals in Harry Potter?
There was a transexual character in "The Matrix" story -- itself a rehash of generations of myth and allegory.
Can anyone guess who?
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07-18-2011 #19
Re: No Transexuals in Harry Potter?
its okay to have interest outside of transsexuals you know lmao.
harry potter started off as a childrens novel that grew into something a bit more complex and darker as the generation that first started to read her books got older.i think its an amazing piece of literature.it encourages children (and many adults) to read an actual full length novel (which is becoming rarer for people to do sadly.its frightening to think how many people in america are actually functioning illiterates),expand their vocabulary and develop their comprehension skills.
also you might to keep in mind that everything is recycled (religion,art,fashion,even science).of course there are going to be elements from other mythologies and cultures in her book.a good artist is some one who can take alittle bit of some thing and not only bring a new perspective but build something new upon (which i think she has more that done).
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07-18-2011 #20
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Re: No Transexuals in Harry Potter?
i have all the harry potter books .. i enjoyed them ... they were fun not ground breaking books like tolkein and cs lewis but enjoyable to read ...
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