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Diana ([info]flyingphoenix) wrote in [info]harmonywank,
@ 2007-06-27 13:52:00


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Current mood:*drool*

Emerson....like totally *pwned*
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh We're back, just in time. *puh* I thought we might miss the next few weeks without any wank at all. Well, I was wrong. Sure there were here and there some funny entries but nothing really nice. But...ahh...Emerson rescued this community.

He posted this on Mugglenet:
WARNING: This is a very opinionated post!

Keith Olbermann has made some bold public predictions about the end of the series on his TV news show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann.Make sure you read the second page of the article before makingjudgment. It is my personal belief, and not necessarily that of therest of the MuggleNet staff, that he is not far off the mark in hisguesses. Except for that whole Harry turning into a muggle business. Imean, really?

In other news, Scholastic has published the results of their fourth fan poll question. They claim a majority of fans - 56%- believe that Harry will end up with Hermione, 20% believe that Ronwill end up with Hermione and 19% believe that Harry will end up withGinny.

Um, was Scholastic polling people who have actually read the books? 56%of fans are wrong. I quote JKR, in the interview Melissa and Iconducted with her two summers ago:

JK Rowling: Yes, we do now know that it's Ron andHermione. I do feel that I have dropped heavy hints. ANVIL-sized,actually, hints, prior to this point. I certainly think even if subtleclues hadn't been picked up by the end of Azkaban, that by the time wehit Krum in Goblet...

I would think it's difficult to interpret "Yes, we do now know thatit's Ron and Hermione" and "anvil-sized hints" any other way, butapparently 56% of fans disagree with me (or just haven't read theinterview... or book 6... or book 5... or book 4...). But then, manyfans still believe Dumbledore is alive, despite JK Rowling saying thathe is "definitely dead." Come on, guys. Wishful thinking isn't going to bring him back.

Note that the question wasn't Who Do You Want to End Up With Whom?, but Who Will End Up With Whom?.There's a difference between wanting something to be true, andbelieving it is true. There is a word in the English dictionary forholding a belief without evidence, and in the face of overwhelmingevidence to the contrary... I'll give you a hint, it starts with a D.

UPDATE: I don't know if I can make this any clearer, but I will try one more time.

I am not calling all Harry/Hermione shippers delusional! Irespect H/Hr shippers who acknowledge the obvious: that JKR paired upRon and Hermione, but wish she hadn't. The only people I am callingdelusional are the shippers who try to wriggle and rationalize theirway around "Yes, we do now know that it's Ron and Hermione" and stillbelieve the two will make babies in book 7. Right, because JKR waslying to us? HOPING is different from BELIEVING!


Well, well...apparently "somehow" H/Hr won a poll. Some might think what an effing big deal after all it is anyway H/G and R/Hr. Emerson obviously disagress it is a big deal afterall he told us years already H/Hr won't happen. Ehh I mean JKR, I always get confused there. See Scholastic posted that H/Hr won the poll without any comment, I bet that was another bad choice from them or Emerson didn't need to remind us that H/Hr WON'T HAPPEN, GOT IT? IDIOTS *cough*
Best part of it all however is, that's actually THE FUNNY, is the linked article and Emerson's comment to it.

Ask Sherlock Homes. So suffice it to say, if Harry Potter dies in the “Deathly Hallows,” J.K. Rowling and her descendants will lose millions of dollars. Since we already know either Potter or Voldemort will croak, it’s got to be so long, Voldy.

I love the fact that he thinks JKR won't kill Harry...because of the upcoming movies as if she could or should care for MONEY but Emerson...well, he agrees. xD

So sacrificing more of Harry’s pals and heroes would again seem to be just bad business.

How can anybody seriously agree to that argument?

Harry can survive it, but his magical skills cannot. To finally vanquish Voldemort, save Hogwarts and Hermione and Ron, and, in fact the magical world, to say nothing of the J.K. Rowling franchise for decades and generations to come, Harry Potter must give up being a wizard.

The only part what makes at least sense....is to Emerson very unlikely. But then again he thinks Neville/Luna (after a comment on Mugglenet he even let it print in their little nice book) will end up with another, what else can and should you expect from him?

There was something...I might have missed *search* ah yes:

Section: Rumours
Luna and Neville will hook up in HP&THBP

The Luna/Neville shippers are much less vehement and scary than the Harry/Hermione, Ron/Hermione tribes, so I hope I won’t receive too much hate mail for quashing this rumour. I see Neville and Luna as very different kinds of people and while they share a certain isolation within Hogwarts, I don’t think that’s enough to foster true love - friendship, perhaps, although I think that Neville would always find Luna’s wilder flights of fancy alarming.


Yet he still thinks N/L will happen...reminds at something else too:

Note that the question wasn't Who Do You Want to End Up With Whom?, but Who Will End Up With Whom?. There's a difference between wanting something to be true, and believing it is true. There is a word in the English dictionary for holding a belief without evidence, and in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary... I'll give you a hint, it starts with a D.

Even in his own words...if that's not the cake, I don't know what it is. Throw a stone..and you might hit yourself.Let's welcome him to the anonym D's or in other words TOTALLY *PWNED*.


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[info]mmanurere
2007-06-27 08:57 pm UTC (link)
I'm not sure that ballot-stuffing or script-kiddie hacking is really such a big deal for anyone -- definitely nothing that you won't see in most public online polls.

Beyond that...I'm really not quite sure what you're saying in most of this post, really. Maybe aggressive HP shippers all around have finally developed their own dialect, because I don't think I've understood any of y'all for months if not longer.

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[info]esclaramonde
2007-06-28 01:30 pm UTC (link)
Well, well...apparently "somehow" H/Hr won a poll.

Yes, because they voted many, many times and then bragged about it.

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[info]flyingphoenix
2007-06-28 01:32 pm UTC (link)
In defence...one can at least say they actually voted and didn't use a bot..at first xD. The whole thing is just the funniest thing ever no matter from what kind of angle one looks at it.

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[info]mrs_bombastic
2007-06-28 06:35 pm UTC (link)
Let me ask you this: why is it a DEFENSE that they spent HOURS of time voting instead of being smart enough to find a way to spam swiftly?

;)

But I agree...this whole thing is HYSTERICAL.

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[info]dreamworld
2007-06-28 11:12 pm UTC (link)
why is it a DEFENSE that they spent HOURS of time voting instead of being smart enough to find a way to spam swiftly?

Because that way they can claim the moral high road and say they didn't cheat?

Nah, I got nothing, either.

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[info]tehrin
2007-06-28 05:33 pm UTC (link)
About the N/L thing, 1) it's in the Rumours section and 2) he states that he doesn't think the isolation they share at Hogwarts is "enough to foster true love" and 3) that he's quashing it- meaning he's dissuading the rumor. Whether Emerson likes N/L or not, doesn't effect the canon fact that it will not happen.

I found the poll results iffy but, who cares? It's a poll and isn't going to affect the outcome of the books. I'm pretty amused by the fact that some members of fandom found the poll SO IMPORTANT.

I have to admit I do find Emerson a bit of a cocksore, because he enjoys wankstirring. I think I like Melissa a lot more.

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[info]thecheese
2007-06-29 09:00 pm UTC (link)
Why does what Emerson thinks matter so much to you? I don't think the fandom at large cares much unless he's talking to JKR. The rest of the time, his opinion is just like anyone else's.

Sorry, just not seeing the wank
(except for your outrage)

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[info]flyingphoenix
2007-06-29 09:05 pm UTC (link)
öÖ...outrage? You mean like being angry and all?

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[info]thecheese
2007-06-29 09:49 pm UTC (link)
Well, to be honest, I'm not really sure what you are saying with this whole entry. It's called *Emerson pwned* so that's what I was looking for. The Cornfield entry on this topic features the wank that ensued in responses to Emerson's post. That's the funny part. This entry seems to be just about your personal outrage, or frustration or...something.

Maybe I'm just not understanding what you're trying to say.

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[info]mrs_bombastic
2007-06-30 02:35 am UTC (link)
I could be wrong but it seems to me that she's trying to say that Emerson and his gang trying to wiggle out of one anti Neville/Luna quote to assert that, while a long shot, the ship is the most canon-supported ship to predict for those two characters makes the Mugglenet crew just as delusional as Harry/Hermione shippers who still think that their ship has more than a slight chance of happening.

Or that he's totally pwned because he did seem to get bent out of shape about the poll and that makes the spammers the winners because pissing off OBHWFers was their goal and as long as Emerson is, that's good enough.

Or...something.

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[info]thecheese
2007-07-02 04:58 am UTC (link)
Okay, I guess you probably summarized the likely meaning of all this as much as it's possible to do, given how it's written. I'm still disappointed in the low level of wank, though I do appreciate your trying to help.

Since you're so good at clarifying, I'd like to friend your jf, if that's ok. Clarity is good. ::nods vigorously::

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