Interesting, though, that dealing with fame was a theme from the beginning, before she could know how it would affect her own life.
Yeah, what's your answer to that, Ogged?
But it wasn't until after the books were wildly popular that she started sticking it to reporters (Book 4, I think). Part of it reads like "And here is what I wanted to say in that interview, biatch."
Early on it's just people staring at Harry and coming up to him.
Hey, it's Adam who put the stinger on it. But I'm honored.
It's true that she gets increasingly pissed off with starfucker/reporters, &c. But it does seem prescient somehow, that elements of this theme are in the first book.
Well I'll tell you the truth but I doubt very much that anyone's going to want to hear this. I tried to put Rita in Philosopher's Stone - you know when Harry walks into the Leaky Cauldron for the first time and everyone says, "Mr Potter you're back!", I wanted to put a journalist in there. She wasn't called Rita then but she was a woman. And then I thought, as I looked at the plot overall, I thought, that's not really where she fits best, she fits best in Four when Harry's supposed to come to terms with his fame. So I pulled Rita from Book One and planned her entrance for Book Four and I was really looking forward to Rita coming in Book Four. For the first time ever, my pen metaphorically hestitated over writing her, because I thought, everyone will think this is my response to what's happened to me. But the fact is, Rita was planned all along. Did I enjoy her a little more because of what's happened to me - yeah I probably did!
You're only halfway though? What's wrong with you?
Seriously, ogged, do you want me to have to put down Being and Time to read Harry Potter? Because if you're going to keep on spoiling it, I'm going to have to.
It's a pretty awesome difference. Finished 600+ pages of HP in hours; much, much more time spent will have been spent getting through current with B&T.
Is this a spoiler? I'm sorry, no more Potter posts!
SP, I know. I didn't actually get much time to read over the weekend. Maybe tonight...
Who is RAB Kriston? We need theories on this!
So at the end of Being and Time, Heidegger....
Oh, sorry -- not everyone's finished it.
Royal Air Battalion? Residual Acid Benefits?
I guessed R.A.B. on the other thread and I'm quite sure I'm right.
Julian Sanchez has a sound theory. . . .
R.A.B. refers coyly to He Who Must Roll A Blunt.
23: Maybe they make the text print in white-on-white?
Spoiler tags make the text color the same as the background color, so that the text is visible only if you select it.
Kriston:
Sanchez's theory seems to me very, very likely. So much so I am embarrased not to have thought of it myself. Now if I could only figure out why Hermione cooked and ate Mrs. Weasely in the last chapter...
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if I could only figure out why Hermione cooked and ate Mrs. Weasely in the last chapter
Because she's plump and yummy, and everyone likes to eat redheads.
It was actually Hermione's cat disguised as Mrs. Weasley using Polyjuice potion (the opposite of when Hermione became a cat in book 2). So the real mystery is why she wanted to eat her own cat...
Baa, I know what you mean. I finished the book after reading Julian's post, so I'll never know whether I'm clever. I was pretty shocked to see Ben w-lfs-n appear at the end, however.
SP, but did she know it was her cat? We need some analytic philosophers on the case!
I think the Polyjuice potion should convince anyone that names sometimes function as definite descriptions. E.g., "Mad Eye Moody is the Dark Arts instructor this year at Hogwarts." This is just the Donnellan case, right?
(Actually, does anyone deny this?)
Great moments in analytic philosophy:
(Actually, does anyone deny this?)
Does anyone deny that names at times function as definite descriptions. Sheesh!
baa, I was just amused by the moment of reflection.
Just because no one denies it doesn't mean I can't get a journal article out of it!
"Names can still be definite descriptions", forthcoming in the Journal of Just Making Sure.
So is the idea that Mad Eye Moody is the title given to the Dark Arts Instructor? I don't know the Potter, so I'm not sure how the example works. And when you say "Donnellan example" I think "The woman in the corner drinking a martini is a CIA operative," which is rather the opposite. (For civilians: The point of the example is that Ms. Plame is not drinking a martini but water in a martini glass, but the argument is that "The woman drinking a martini" refers to her anyway.)
Are you defending the Strawson-Russell view of names as definite descriptions? I think that needs more work than this example. But Nunberg's examples in which 'I' and 'that one' effectively function as descriptions could easily be converted to examples of names--you say "Karl traditionally gets whatever he wants for his last meal," effectively meaning "The condemned prisoner traditionally gets whatever he wants for his last meal" (Karl being the condemned prisoner)>
baa, isn't that just using a definite description to fix the referent of a name?