Wank was inevitable when you have factions of the fandom shipping in direct opposition to one another. Also when you have people who expect a child's/young adult series to suddenly become very adult (in a myriad of ways). Or when you have people rooting for a "rocks fall, everyone dies" ending, etc.
Poor JKR had no way of pacifying the lunatic fringe of her fandom. Wank was inevitable because anything she would write would never align with the outrageousness of some of fandoms speculation. The fringes really don't accept that bulk of the general readership are not obsessed partisans.
I stand by the fact that if the leaked book is real, the general population will most likely be satisfied.
Le sigh. I am such a lame-o. I won't look at this online biznass. And choose to believe it's fake because it's sad for poor J.K. otherwise. Although, the crazy anger is making me all the more anticipatory...
J.K. will be fine. All it has done is ramp up anticipation. Up until it hit the mainstream news this morning, it's pretty much been a fandom thing and the people wanking about it were people who would/will/have bought the book already. If anything, half of the online wankers will be running to the store to prove "See! It's fake! I told you!" and the other half will run to say "See! It's REAL! I told you!"
Of course, there are multiple different versions of epilogues and random chapters online. Many of those are rather transparently fake.
But, personally, I simply cannot fathom that the complete novel one is a fake. It would require way too much talent to produce.
First, you'd have to find someone to write a believable 750+ page story that sounds like JKR. Then you'd have to find someone who can seamlessly mimic the style of the artist they use for the Harry Potter books and have that person draw a convincing header for the chapters. Then you'd have to print the whole thing out in the proper sizes and fonts. After that you'd have to find someone somewhere willing to bind the thing so that it looks like a legitimate Harry Potter book. And you would have had to have done the legwork to search out the proper ISBN number, the library of congress stuff, and the copyright.
I just can't wrap my head around someone being capable of doing so very many things seamlessly. Also there are two epilogues posted from two sources which match exactly.
So, yeah, I'm thinking it's real.
And, other than the crazed overly obsessed partisan fans, the sane people I know who have read the entire 750+ pages say that the book is arguably the best of the series. That being the case, if it is a forgery, Scholastic should forget making a civil case for forgery (and why would they wish to prosecute a forger anyway? ), they should be signing him/her for a book deal.
It's Occam's Razor. The most simple solution is the most likely one, which is why I remain convinced that the full book version (as opposed to the multiple epilogues and random chapters) is real.
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Date: 2007-07-18 02:14 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-07-18 02:33 pm (UTC)In the sense that there are people loudly screaming that it's a fake and debating it hotly it's real.
In the sense that I clearly think someone is off watching pyramids from a river barge if they think it's a fake, yeah, it's a joke.
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Date: 2007-07-18 02:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-18 04:45 pm (UTC)Poor JKR had no way of pacifying the lunatic fringe of her fandom. Wank was inevitable because anything she would write would never align with the outrageousness of some of fandoms speculation. The fringes really don't accept that bulk of the general readership are not obsessed partisans.
I stand by the fact that if the leaked book is real, the general population will most likely be satisfied.
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Date: 2007-07-18 06:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-18 04:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-18 06:00 pm (UTC)Of course, there are multiple different versions of epilogues and random chapters online. Many of those are rather transparently fake.
But, personally, I simply cannot fathom that the complete novel one is a fake. It would require way too much talent to produce.
First, you'd have to find someone to write a believable 750+ page story that sounds like JKR. Then you'd have to find someone who can seamlessly mimic the style of the artist they use for the Harry Potter books and have that person draw a convincing header for the chapters. Then you'd have to print the whole thing out in the proper sizes and fonts. After that you'd have to find someone somewhere willing to bind the thing so that it looks like a legitimate Harry Potter book. And you would have had to have done the legwork to search out the proper ISBN number, the library of congress stuff, and the copyright.
I just can't wrap my head around someone being capable of doing so very many things seamlessly. Also there are two epilogues posted from two sources which match exactly.
So, yeah, I'm thinking it's real.
And, other than the crazed overly obsessed partisan fans, the sane people I know who have read the entire 750+ pages say that the book is arguably the best of the series. That being the case, if it is a forgery, Scholastic should forget making a civil case for forgery (and why would they wish to prosecute a forger anyway? ), they should be signing him/her for a book deal.
It's Occam's Razor. The most simple solution is the most likely one, which is why I remain convinced that the full book version (as opposed to the multiple epilogues and random chapters) is real.