GRUMPY PIRATE
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The OP sounds like a Muggle!![]()
Hmm, or from House Ssssslytheryn!
(GOOD USE OF THE NEW RULE!!!!!)
The OP sounds like a Muggle!![]()
You know I had a whole long response typed out, and i realized something. You're not worth it. But I'd hold onto your horse if i were you. it might buck you.
Rowling's welfare assistance wasn't out of total desperation, it was out of choice. She was an educated teacher who left her job when she had a child. After that, she chose not to work and, instead, collected welfare to get the time to write her book.
She could be Delores Umbridge. She was always a hater. LOL![]()
It appears you are under the imperious curse.![]()
She could be Dolores Umbridge. She was always a hater. LOL![]()
My guess is that the UK government has more than made back what it doled out to her *in taxes on her wealth alone*.
It appears you are under the imperious curse.![]()
I had some cyber friends (all English majors, incidentally) who felt that there's simply NO WAY that an uneducated person (though they always said "woman") could have written those books, and that she must have had a ghostwriter for them. And I'm thinkin'....yeah, no. I think that person would have said something by now.
All these references to the wizarding world- I'm gonna have to read them all over again!!!
Can't wait!!
The Rags to Riches Story:
Every single article and every single Harry Potter book jacket seems to work in JK Rowling's humble beginnings as a single mother on government assistance. She then pulled herself up by her bootstraps and wrote one of the most successful series of books in the history of words.
Why it's a Load of Crap:
It's one thing to be born into poverty and claw your way out of it. However, it's a whole different game when your two-year stint on welfare is part of your business plan. Welcome to the Rowling School of Writing.
Rowling's welfare assistance wasn't out of total desperation, it was out of choice. She was an educated teacher who left her job when she had a child. After that, she chose not to work and, instead, collected welfare to get the time to write her book.
While we are not denying for one moment that trying to care for a child, write a book and work full time would be very difficult, we will say that it's not impossible. People do it. Instead, she basically got her book advance courtesy of UK citizens. She also got a generous arts grant (unprecedented for an unknown author) to complete her work when the welfare check wasn't cutting it.
So this was a person who did spend a very brief time in rags, but she went to the store and hand-picked the rags she chose to wear.
I had some cyber friends (all English majors, incidentally) who felt that there's simply NO WAY that an uneducated person (though they always said "woman") could have written those books, and that she must have had a ghostwriter for them. And I'm thinkin'....yeah, no. I think that person would have said something by now.
All these references to the wizarding world- I'm gonna have to read them all over again!!!
Can't wait!!
I'm not sure what her publicity is like in the US but is there the belief that J.K. Rowling is uneducated?
She has a BA in French and Classics and, at least in the UK, there has been no attempt to hide this. It's even referenced on her publishers bio page (google for scholastic.)
AFAIK she had a pretty comfortable middle class childhood, it's well known she was an unemployed single mother but I wonder if the "rags to riches" thing is more to the fore in the US because being on "welfare" has very different social connotations?
I'm not sure what her publicity is like in the US but is there the belief that J.K. Rowling is uneducated?
She has a BA in French and Classics and, at least in the UK, there has been no attempt to hide this. It's even referenced on her publishers bio page (google for scholastic.)
AFAIK she had a pretty comfortable middle class childhood, it's well known she was an unemployed single mother but I wonder if the "rags to riches" thing is more to the fore in the US because being on "welfare" has very different social connotations?
While we're at it...perhaps the OP is a Dementor. sucking the joy from us all?
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Ok everyone, wands at the ready....
1....2....3!!!!
Expecto Patronum!!!!!!!!!!!!!![]()