by Travis
I’ve been hired to do freelance writing for Suite101.com. This is exciting for me, as it means I’m taking just another small step towards writing as much as possible. I’ll mostly be keeping my Harry Potter commentary here, but every once in a while, I’ll post something on Potter there instead of here, and I’ll link to it.
So here’s a bit more on Rowling’s speech at Harvard.
You should also check out David Bruno’s reflections (you’ll find his blog linked on our Links page now, and Time Magazine just did an article on him), and of course, John Granger’s if you’ve not read them already.
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I looked it up: Contributing Writer at suite101.com.
Not bad, Prinzi. Not bad.
Travis wrote elsewhere: “For almost four straight books, Harry was becoming entirely the wrong kind of hero: the standard, middle-class, popular male hero. But in the fifth book, Order of the Phoenix, Harry fails miserably. His hero-complex is shattered when it motivates him to act on faulty information and results in the death of his own godfather. For the next two books, he’d learn to be exactly who he was: a young man with a tremendous capacity to love.”
Great comment, Travis. I think is a key point. Harry’s truly dark point comes in OOTP, not necessarily in the Forest walk, although that’s not unimportant. It’s just that everything up till then has led Harry to that walk.
I’d say, also, that Harry continues to struggle with his failures throughout the remaining two books. He struggles with them in the so often maligned camping scenes. He struggles with them after Godric’s Hollow & after Dobby’s death. And all his struggles lead him back to, as you put it, a young man with the capacity to love & also to trust in others even when he doesn’t understand.
So, does hired mean, hired for pay or hired for the privilege of seeing your work in print?
Either way, congratulations! I’ve already read your article on Jo’s speech at Harvard. I’ll need to more thoroughly reread your one on Bob Barr. Especially since I think I disagree with you. Saw some other interesting articles, too. Good job!
revgeorge, yes, it’s paid work, but the pay depends entirely on advertisement clicks from my article pages.
If I click on those ads will you slip me a cut?