| Caspian and Rilian Present |
| The Hansberry Chronicles: Volume I |
| A Scholary Rant By Dr. Eyre Hansberry |
In the beginning, there were websites and at the end of the
day, J.K. Rowling looked at these websites and said, “It is
good.” Then she went on to write a few more books. She looked
at these books and the fans’ response and said, “It is good.”
Then something unexplainable happened. The series had ended
and, along with the books, she had given us so much more.
She left us as a community of people who had banded together in
the name of Potter. However, in creating this community, J.K.
left us hungry for more. As we grew stronger and more vocal,
she decided that we should not be sharing this forbidden
knowledge with others or thinking for ourselves. In other
words, J.K. Rowling created a new species of man, but decided
that he should not be granted free will. She led us into the
Garden of Potter and, at the first sign of us disobeying her
orders; she cast us out of Paradise with an evil grin on her
face and Book 6 in her hand.
J.K. Rowling is mean to her fans and controlling! She just
wants us to think the way she thinks and see the characters the
way she sees them. She doesn’t allow us to meet the characters
as the story unfolds and form our own opinions about them.
Let’s imagine for a second that this world is real and these
characters are real. Imagine you could be walking down
Broadway and bump into Harry or Ron or Hermione. If ten
different people were to bump into them in the same way, you
would likely find them to have formed ten different opinions of
these real, live versions of our wizarding friends. Why is it
then that we are to defy human nature and blindly accept
Rowling’s word as law?
Has she come down from the mountain and handed us a new set of
commandments? Well, Ms. Rowling, to you I say, “I see no
tablets of stone!” What I do see is akin to the light bearer
falling to the dark side. Et tu, Rowling? Et tu?
Yet there has always been a choice to return to the light.
What is yours, Dear Reader? Swallow the canon and choose what
is easy? Or think for yourself and choose what is right?
‘Til we meet again,
Eyre Hansberry
day, J.K. Rowling looked at these websites and said, “It is
good.” Then she went on to write a few more books. She looked
at these books and the fans’ response and said, “It is good.”
Then something unexplainable happened. The series had ended
and, along with the books, she had given us so much more.
She left us as a community of people who had banded together in
the name of Potter. However, in creating this community, J.K.
left us hungry for more. As we grew stronger and more vocal,
she decided that we should not be sharing this forbidden
knowledge with others or thinking for ourselves. In other
words, J.K. Rowling created a new species of man, but decided
that he should not be granted free will. She led us into the
Garden of Potter and, at the first sign of us disobeying her
orders; she cast us out of Paradise with an evil grin on her
face and Book 6 in her hand.
J.K. Rowling is mean to her fans and controlling! She just
wants us to think the way she thinks and see the characters the
way she sees them. She doesn’t allow us to meet the characters
as the story unfolds and form our own opinions about them.
Let’s imagine for a second that this world is real and these
characters are real. Imagine you could be walking down
Broadway and bump into Harry or Ron or Hermione. If ten
different people were to bump into them in the same way, you
would likely find them to have formed ten different opinions of
these real, live versions of our wizarding friends. Why is it
then that we are to defy human nature and blindly accept
Rowling’s word as law?
Has she come down from the mountain and handed us a new set of
commandments? Well, Ms. Rowling, to you I say, “I see no
tablets of stone!” What I do see is akin to the light bearer
falling to the dark side. Et tu, Rowling? Et tu?
Yet there has always been a choice to return to the light.
What is yours, Dear Reader? Swallow the canon and choose what
is easy? Or think for yourself and choose what is right?
‘Til we meet again,
Eyre Hansberry
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