Harry Potter: Revenge of the Nerds

Or rather demise of the nerds, may be more appropriate. Or desperation. Anyway the easiest counter is to point out how phenomenouly popular the whole Harry Potter movement is crossing Age gaps and cultural barriers. 15 copies a second or something and only slightly less publicised than the Howard biography. Yeah they'll be queing up for that one.
Anyway what I wanted to say about the whole thing is 'why?' why do people line up at midnight? why do people dress up as wizards to buy a fucking book whilst standing in a queue? I guess the answer to that is: for fun. they are indulging in the sheer fantasy of it all.
But what upsets me is the sheer mindlessness of it. I'll get around to it eventually, reading it I mean. But why the urgency? and where's the reserved judgement in such mass movement. The one book that needs no reviews, that moreover no reviewer's opinion is relevant to sales is this series.
But the last book was pure gobshite, the one before it a noticable decline. It reminded me of an article on the craft of TV writing which said 'viewers don't tune in to see a new show, they tune in to see the same show as last week' which as illogical as it sounds make perfect sense on further examination.
Harry Potter fans want to read a book that gives them exactly what the last book gave them, they can't just reread the last book it doesn't work anymore. If people could wipe their memory banks and leave themselves a list of recommended reading you'd never sell a book again.
You know they are good books, except JK I feel betrayed what she originally promised, that Harry would grow up with the readers, or maybe she's savagely out of touch.
I mean Harry is 16 in the series and still hasn't said 'cunt' 'fuck' or 'shit' words a grown up 16 year old should be using 3 times a day, 78 times a day and once every sentance respectively.
He hasn't had his bits touched yet but some slurry despite his popularity in the school. He lives in a boarding house yet there have been no masturbation scandels yet. In fact the fact that he has been in a bording school since 12 or 13 or something should have had him dropping big words, dealing drugs and getting suspended in book 1.
Killing students is what makes it grown up? unless you live in 'the hood' or isreal or someshit student deaths aren't a real issue kids face in most highschools apart from the occasional teen suicide or more frequent alcohol related death.
At the very least the students should be calling god a mother fucking son of a bitch for taking away a kid in its prime.
Yet judgement wise evidently there are a whole bunch of people who concede it doesn't really matter if the books good or not, they'll buy it anyway because they are too emotionally invested. worse than that, they have faith the book will be good.
See I would have felt dicked off if I'd bought Order of the Pheonix or The Half Blood Prince because I would have felt JK had taken me for a ride.
Particularly Order of the Pheonix as the 'filler' book that achieved nothing at all.
And as someone who has little faith in conclusions being the best part of any story I'm in no rush to see the end of the series.
And the fucking 'spoiler' mentality, surely a book that is good should not rely on its 'twist' twists are clever but nowhere near as clever as just writing a good valid story.
As a hater of the Fight Club twist, the most unnecessary twist in movie history in my opinion that actually detracts from the brilliance of the message of the film leading up to that point, possibly the inspiration for adaptations 'the 3' if someone had told me before hand I probably still would have been surprised and delighted by the raw dialogue of the film and not really cared.
Same should go for Harry Potter or any book released. A similar thing happened with 'Deep Blue Sea' in interviews, a monster movie about sharks the cast in interviews would hush up interviewers that asked them about the death scenes because apparantly unbeknownst to anyone the point of seeing a monster film is to find out who survives.
Bullshit, just as the point of reading Harry Potter isn't to read a gimmicky death scene, (none of the ones that have featured so far have packed any real punch anyway) its the fucking story, the fantasy of reading about a highschool so far from your own and hoping a kid you may or may not relate to gets more lady action than you did in highschool.
motherfuckers.