AGC said:
AustinAg2K said:
I like to think about what people are going to be complaining about in 2000 years when they make their modern interpretation of Harry Potter. People are going to be all, "No! Wizards back in the 1990s rode on broom sticks with straw bristles. Those broom sticks with Nylon bristles didn't even come out until the 2000s, so there's no way Wizards could have actually flown them during the Battle of Hogwarts!"
Go for substance over dunking. Did Rowling believe in or worship what she wrote? Did she write to people who believed it to be true? Maybe Homer is in a different category than someone who wrote a fictional tale that fits many genres including the fairy tale…
True. There's no question Rowling authored her books however derivative while Homer has been thought at various times in history to be a blind bard, a curator of oral stories handed down through prior generations, and contemporarily by some two different authors when it comes to the Odyssey and the Iliad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer (Links to points embedded in article)
Chuckle at juxtaposing Rowling's HP as fictional/fairy tale vs. the Odyssey's account of hapless crew being turned into pigs (they got better) while Odysseus bangs the enchantress Circe for a year, a cyclops also capturing and killing some of the long suffering crew, sirens attempting to lure Spinal Tap's drummers to their death, yada yada. Maybe folks have always enjoyed being entertained.
Obviously staying true to the minutia of the epic poem is paramount, but they went with Universal instead.
