"Not since the infamous last paragraph of the final Harry Potter book two years ago (you remember, when Harry awakes in his cupboard under the stairs and exclaims, "It was all a dream!") have readers been so crushed."
"The true criterion of the practical, therefore, is not whether the latter can keep intact the wrong or foolish; rather is it whether the scheme has vitality enough to leave the stagnant waters of the old, and build, as well as sustain, new life." -- Emma Goldman
Friday, March 09, 2007
A different kind of ending for Harry Potter
So, sci-fi writer John Scalzi recently held a "Write a Scathing Review" contest. Most of the entries are very funny, and you should read them, but I just couldn't pass on this quote from one:
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