tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post113302117348829636..comments2024-03-19T07:27:06.216-04:00Comments on VOTARIES OF HORROR: Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireKatherine Woodburyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14364517253667798449noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post-1133026207488248202005-11-26T12:30:00.000-05:002005-11-26T12:30:00.000-05:00The book exhausted my patience with the series. As...The book exhausted my patience with the series. Aside from Rowling's pedestrian talents as a writer, there's that nagging, inescapable problem that a mad genius can't be any smarter than the author. There is no logical reason for Voldemort to go to such ridiculous lengths in order to whisk Harry into his clutches. A process server could have accomplished the same by paragraph two.<BR/><BR/>Any object can be made into a Portkey, remember.<BR/><BR/>Worse, Lord Voldemort himself makes no sense. What does the man want? Money? Power? Okay, but to do what? To whom? And for what reason? Something more than revenge, one hopes. And what do his sycophants expect out of the deal? Why are they willing to give up so much in order to follow a leader who demonstrates no love or loyalty to them in turn?<BR/><BR/>Tyrants don't launch tyrannies with a publically tyrannical face. They first draw in the useful idiots with promises of a rosy future and utopian idealism, a shared cultural or political cause, or deeply-felt grievances widely shared.<BR/><BR/>Consider the creation of an actual genius, Shakespeare's Richard III. "Now is the winter of our discontent," Richard declares in Act 1, Scene 1, Line 1 of the play, and goes on from there to describe in detail the substance of his complaints and the subsequent course of his action. Mad villainy is fine, as long as there is reason behind the madness.Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03182644885948983861noreply@blogger.com