"Harry Potter and the Parables of Peanuts" "Harry Potter and the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings" "Harry Potter and Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums, 1955-2016"
Harry Potter and The Navel War of 1812 Harry Potter and Hunting Trips of a Ranchman Harry Potter and Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail Harry Potter and The Strenuous Life Harry Potter and The Rough Riders Harry Potter and The Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood
Ann: you appear to visit reddit from time to time. Have you ever wandered into r/TwoXChromosomes? A "female" subreddit. Its an interesting window into the minds of pre-teen/teenage/twenty-something modern females. Simply reviewing post titles is intriguing although I can't decide if I should laugh cry in despair at some of them. If you are casting about for a post subject, check it out.
Here is my slightly-off topic Harry Potter theory, for those of you who are familiar with the story. Harry Potter at the beginning of the tale, starts out living under the stairs at his abusive aunt and uncle's house. He is starving, unkempt, and wearing rags. My theory is that he never really does get out from beneath the stairs. The whole series of books and films are really just his ever-increasingly delusional mind building a mental escape hatch for him. He's suddenly rich, has loving parents, the greatest of friends, gets to eat as much as he likes, is a hero, a star athlete, and famous. As he gets closer to actually starving to death his fantasies become ever more fanciful and outlandish. He saves his fantasy world as he dies. Uplifting.
You probably need the "the" in there, and - to kill the joke through analysis - something abstract to make concrete or something mundane to make magical.
I haven't and don't intend to read the books so I don't know whether or not your premise is accurate, but if so that's a damn fine theory. OTOH, it's fairly obvious. Who else has suggested same, or do you believe your theory is original?
CWJ my theory is just an intentional misunderstanding, to troll my excessively fannish Harry Potter friends. It fits the observations well but is clearly incorrect. Not wholly original, either.
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72 comments:
Sorcery is one of the white privileges, bigger than sex.
Harry Potter and Althouse. Who is Ann Althouse?
I still like the fortune cookie "in bed" postscript thing better.
"Harry Potter and the Preteen Girl"
You know it's coming. Rowling has to edgey out the next perversion.
I'm surprised they didn't kill off Luke Skywalker this way.
"Harry Potter and Althouse."
Try "Abbott and Costello Meet..."
I believe he is popular in the East too. Harry Potter and the Analects.
A Song of Ice and Fire and Harry Potter.
Coming, May 2020.
Maybe.
Rawls' book was the subject of my first-ever elective of my first semester freshman year.
I don't recall the implications of the use of magic as part of his theory.
"Harry Potter and Juvenile Sex Offenders: A Guide to Evaluation and Treatment for Mental Health Professionals"
Uhh..no.
Harry Potter and Cults: What Every Parent Should Know, available at Amazon.
Harry Potter and The Face of Battle, ditto.
Narr
Gave up on HP when I realized Hermione wasn't going to git nekkid
John Rawls' book cannot be made good.
Possible his writing could be made not dreadful.
That's amusing. I guess I'm going to have to get on Reddit so I can keep up.
#ReadAnotherBook
Harry Potter and Marianne Williamson Sounds right..harmony in the kingdom.
Seriously though, this is the G-rated version of the Fortune Cookie "adding 'in bed' to any fortune makes it better."
Harry Potter and the Russian Collusion.
Harry Potter and the Gaffes of Biden.
Harry Potter and the Island of Pedophiles.
Harry Potter and the Special Housing Unit of the Manhattan Correctional Center.
Harry Potter and the switch out of Epstein.
The only one I've read was "Harriet Pottery and the Half-Assed Prince".
"Harry Potter and SM 101: A Realistic Introduction."
P.S. It won't make sense unless you're up on your Epstein news.
Harry Potter and the Clinton Murder Machine.
Harry Potter and the Hairy Otter.
"Harry Potter and the Art of War"
Yep.
apropos of nothing:
https://unherd.com/2019/08/meghan-and-harry-are-playing-a-dangerous-game/
I'll try it with the books on my desk right now:
"Harry Potter and the Parables of Peanuts"
"Harry Potter and the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings"
"Harry Potter and Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums, 1955-2016"
Nuh-uh.
Harry Potter and the Art of the Deal
Harry Potter and the Theory of Relativity
Harry Potter and Mien Kampf
Harry Potter and Refrigeration System Repair.
Yes, it works!
Harry Potter and the Art of the Deal
Harry Potter and The Audacity of Hope
Harry Potter and The Navel War of 1812
Harry Potter and Hunting Trips of a Ranchman
Harry Potter and Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail
Harry Potter and The Strenuous Life
Harry Potter and The Rough Riders
Harry Potter and The Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood
Damn you Left Bank! Curse you for typing so fast!
Harry Potter and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Maybe leave out the Zen?
Harry Potter and the Communist Manifesto.
Harry Potter and What Happened.
Harry Potter and the Mueller Report.
Harry Potter and the Lost Art of Finding Our Way
Harty Potter and Embracing the Ordinary
Some work better than others.
Harry Potter and Lolita. I'd buy it.
Harry Potter and the Art of the Deal
Oh darn. Left Bank beat me to it.
Harry Potter and the Quintessential Dictionary
Harry Potter and the Fifty Shades of Gray.
Harry Potter and National Lampoon's Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead.
Harry Potter and the Heart of Darkness
Harry Potter and the Happy Hooker.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Zenda
Harry Potter and What Happened
Harry Potter and the Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Harry Potter and Cryptonomicon? Meh. Needs an article.
Harry Potter and the Decline of Western Civilization
Harry Potter and The Winds of War.
Harry Potter and Being and Time
Harry Potter and the Handbook For Small Scale Poultry Producer/Processors
Ann: you appear to visit reddit from time to time. Have you ever wandered into r/TwoXChromosomes? A "female" subreddit. Its an interesting window into the minds of pre-teen/teenage/twenty-something modern females. Simply reviewing post titles is intriguing although I can't decide if I should laugh cry in despair at some of them. If you are casting about for a post subject, check it out.
Harry Potter and the Sabers of Paradise.
Drops mic.
Harry Potter and Freedom to Choose (Milton Friedman)
Harry Potter and The Road to Serfdom (Friedrich Hayek)
Harry Potter and the Gulag Archipelago (Alexandr Solzhenitsyn)
And other titles to combat the Dark Arts!
You can also combine Harry Potter with PornHub descriptions for merriment.
No, I will not provide examples.
I am Laslo.
Harry Potter and How to Win Friends and Influence People.
Harry Potter and The Pity of War.
Harry Potter and Why Orwell Matters.
Harry Potter and The Joy of Sex.
Narr
OK the last one should go in the Epstein thread
Harry Potter and the Sabers of Paradise.
That's Sabres, not Sabers. Lesley Blanch spelled it the English way.
Hee hee.
Harry Potter and The Federalist Papers.
Harry Potter and the Murder of Jeffrey Epstein
Sounds much less conspiratorial
Here is my slightly-off topic Harry Potter theory, for those of you who are familiar with the story. Harry Potter at the beginning of the tale, starts out living under the stairs at his abusive aunt and uncle's house. He is starving, unkempt, and wearing rags.
My theory is that he never really does get out from beneath the stairs. The whole series of books and films are really just his ever-increasingly delusional mind building a mental escape hatch for him. He's suddenly rich, has loving parents, the greatest of friends, gets to eat as much as he likes, is a hero, a star athlete, and famous. As he gets closer to actually starving to death his fantasies become ever more fanciful and outlandish. He saves his fantasy world as he dies. Uplifting.
It doesn't work so well with politicians' books:
Harry Potter and Dreams From My Father
Harry Potter and the Audacity of Hope
Harry Potter and a Charge to Keep
Harry Potter and Profiles in Courage
Harry Potter and Hard Choices
Harry Potter and Madam Secretary
Harry Potter and My Beloved World
You probably need the "the" in there, and - to kill the joke through analysis - something abstract to make concrete or something mundane to make magical.
Philosophy. Sexing up philosophy.
Sure, if you're ten.
Harry Potter and How to Avoid Large Ships.
Comes with a free banana slicer and damaged screw extractor.
Rockeye,
I haven't and don't intend to read the books so I don't know whether or not your premise is accurate, but if so that's a damn fine theory. OTOH, it's fairly obvious. Who else has suggested same, or do you believe your theory is original?
Harry Potter and The Feminine Mystique
Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings and the Return of the King - now that's something I would read!
"You can also combine Harry Potter with PornHub descriptions for merriment."
Harry Potter and the Humiliatrix of Ghent?
Harry Potter and the Girls of Kent State?
I understand Laslo’s reticence though. The really funny ones you can’t write out of respect for the blog.
CWJ my theory is just an intentional misunderstanding, to troll my excessively fannish Harry Potter friends. It fits the observations well but is clearly incorrect. Not wholly original, either.
Harry Potter and the Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Works with "Indiana Jones and . . . ," too.
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