In re #1, the difference is that Snape is not sparkly. He is greasy. If he were sparkly, I would larf and larf possibly people would opine about it.
(Also, I mean, the latter HP books have been judged somewhat harshly by Yours Truly, but I don't think they ever inspired a review in the Washington Post that ended, "Reader, I hurled." I don't know what happens in books 6 and 7 of the HP series -- not having read them -- but I can't recall their being described as actually sucking. Sloppily edited and overinflated, yes.)
In re #2, the whole idea of exposing children to things in a positive way is that they model the behavior they witness. Not in all ways, and not by any stretch a complete world-view, but... monkey see, monkey do isn't a saying for no reason. So yes, exposing a child to a worldview gives that child the chance to espouse that worldview later on. Where normalizing behavior that is beyond the pale is concerned (wherever you set the pale to be), the chance is more than most prefer to take.
I speak primarily from the perspective of somebody who points and laughs rather than takes the ramparts in these arguments. Although, I have to say, Twilight is SO much more point-and-laughable than HP. Even the excerpts I have managed to subject myself to have included Felonious Abuse of a Thesaurus in the First Degree, to say nothing of "Oh shut up and tell me what happened already, you fulminating author" syndrome. And anyway, it has sparkly vampires and that will never stop being funny.
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Date: 2008-09-24 07:50 pm (UTC)I would larf and larfpossibly people would opine about it.(Also, I mean, the latter HP books have been judged somewhat harshly by Yours Truly, but I don't think they ever inspired a review in the Washington Post that ended, "Reader, I hurled." I don't know what happens in books 6 and 7 of the HP series -- not having read them -- but I can't recall their being described as actually sucking. Sloppily edited and overinflated, yes.)
In re #2, the whole idea of exposing children to things in a positive way is that they model the behavior they witness. Not in all ways, and not by any stretch a complete world-view, but... monkey see, monkey do isn't a saying for no reason. So yes, exposing a child to a worldview gives that child the chance to espouse that worldview later on. Where normalizing behavior that is beyond the pale is concerned (wherever you set the pale to be), the chance is more than most prefer to take.
I speak primarily from the perspective of somebody who points and laughs rather than takes the ramparts in these arguments. Although, I have to say, Twilight is SO much more point-and-laughable than HP. Even the excerpts I have managed to subject myself to have included Felonious Abuse of a Thesaurus in the First Degree, to say nothing of "Oh shut up and tell me what happened already, you fulminating author" syndrome. And anyway, it has sparkly vampires and that will never stop being funny.