{"id":469,"date":"2006-08-08T09:41:49","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T09:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/08\/k-rowling-and-the-complex-trop\/"},"modified":"2006-08-08T09:41:49","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T09:41:49","slug":"k-rowling-and-the-complex-trop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/08\/k-rowling-and-the-complex-trop\/","title":{"rendered":"J K Rowling and the Complex Trope of Female Delusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

The title is from the Guardian’s<\/cite> piece on the Harry Potter convention in Las Vegas<\/a> (via Bookslut<\/a>), in which the traditional naive reporter is sent out to be shocked by discovering people in costumes, slash fanfic, and pseudo-academic papers:<\/p>\n

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Lumos 2006 is not just another conference, it’s ‘a Harry Potter symposium’, and most of the audience aren’t academics at all, they’re common-or-garden fans, 1,200 of them in total, here for three days’ worth of talks, presentations and panels. Dr Blazina’s presentation is just one out of a possible six others being held in the same time slot, including ‘Not Just Good and Evil: Moral Alignment in Harry Potter’ and ‘Bloody Hell! Why Am I So Wild About Harry?’ <\/p>\n

The last time I paid attention, Harry Potter was a phenomenally successful series of children’s books. But this, I discover, is the kind of hop elessly naive viewpoint that causes my fellow Lumos attendees to gasp and shake their heads. Children are banned from the conference. Over-14s are grudgingly allowed only if they’re chaperoned at all times. I go to only one talk in which the speaker thinks of mentioning that it’s a book for children. And even as he says it, I see the audience losing interest.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sometimes I wonder how major newspapers continue to find clueless rubes to write these articles. While I’m personally baffled by slash fiction in general, nothing else in the article should really be surprising to anyone with a passing acquaintance with SF fandom. Once you accept the trope of reportorial naivete, though, there are a few enjoyably snarky lines.<\/p>\n

If you prefer your Harry Potter obsession without snark, here’s a more serious analysis from Lance Mannion<\/a> (via somebody or another on ScienceBlogs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The title is from the Guardian’s piece on the Harry Potter convention in Las Vegas (via Bookslut), in which the traditional naive reporter is sent out to be shocked by discovering people in costumes, slash fanfic, and pseudo-academic papers: Lumos 2006 is not just another conference, it’s ‘a Harry Potter symposium’, and most of the… Continue reading J K Rowling and the Complex Trope of Female Delusion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}