A Different Harry Potter

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Just this morning, I heard Harry Potter being mentioned in the radio. It must be about a castle where the movie was shot, being open to visitors or something like that but I wasn't sure. Remember watching the first installment,Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and that was about it.The Harry Potter films are a fantasy series based on the Harry Potter novels by British writer J.K. Rowling. Fantasy films aren't exactly my cup of tea; not Harry Potter films anyway.The five films that had been released, nevertheless, had become the highest grossing film series of all time, with USD$4.48 billion in worldwide receipts. It is said that in 1999, Rowling sold the film rights for the first four Harry Potter books to Warner Bros. for a reported US$2,000,000. Rowling demanded that the principal cast be kept strictly British, allowing nevertheless for the inclusion of many Irish actors such as the late Richard Harris as Dumbledore, and for casting of French and Eastern European actors in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire where characters from the book are specified as such. If audience of the films were restricted to certain people, I wonder what the worldwide receipts would be...

Harry Potter Books...
 Harry Potter Books sold in Malaysia...



You've noticed a slight difference, haven't you?

Comments

Anonymous said…
So the Harry Potter Malaysian versions are in English or Bahasa?
February 27, 2008 at 4:16 AM
Liudmila said…
And I like fables. And Harry Potter too. We need good fables with happy end, where the good wins the bad. Great!
February 27, 2008 at 12:25 PM
footiam said…
Oh, Fatiah, it must be in Bahasa. Didn't open the book. Will do the next time and will inform you!
February 28, 2008 at 10:34 PM
footiam said…
That's why Harry Potter is such a hit, Liudmila. Everyone of us has a child inside us, don't you think?
February 28, 2008 at 10:36 PM
Liudmila said…
I like the fables of aborigens of Pacific Islands too. For me, they are hits too. For adults, not for children, because with pornographic content. :))) But they are great for a person with european culture behind the shoulders.
February 29, 2008 at 2:10 AM
footiam said…
Oh! I haven't heard of fables of Pacific islands and I haven't come across fables with pornographic content. How interesting! You must post a story or two in your blogs, uncensored version, please!
March 1, 2008 at 6:04 PM
Liudmila said…
:)))
I had a very great book, really very great as dimension, "Fables of the populations of the Pacific Islands". It was not for children surely. I think it was a scientific work of somebody that studied fables.

One of them, for example, told why women have pubic hairs.

For these populations (so as for those how lives in other far from cities places -villages, Far North ecc) EVERYTHING in the life is natural, so they do not have pornographic content -for them.

But the fables contain other precious knowleges. For example: in China during the Great Flood, described in Bible, water arrived only till the crests of the trees. And in the places described by Bible covered mountains. Did you know about it?
March 2, 2008 at 12:53 AM
footiam said…
Oh, you must post one or two stories from your book, Liudmila. Yes, why do woen have pubic hairs? It must be the same reason as why man has them too! And I do not know about the fables about the Great Flood from China. Do post something on it too! This world is suddenly so big and I feel like there's so much that I don't know!
March 2, 2008 at 1:46 AM
Liudmila said…
You don't know the story, that is why you say "the same reason" but it's not the same at all.

I do not remember very well today, because I had this book when I was a school-girl, but the reason was so more or less:
The woman had to hide somebody from other man that wanted to kill that first. The first changed into a bird, but the second understood this magical change and wanted to kill the bird the same. So woman took the bird and hide it under her skirt and because of plumage of the bird, it changed into the pubic hairs.

That is the truth. Pubic hair is a prove that the woman is... not very faithful to her husband.
March 2, 2008 at 2:35 AM
Anonymous said…
My wife and I enjoyed the HP series and have all 7 books. It saddened me when Richard Harris died.
How incredible to go from HP to pornographic tales from the Pacific Islands. If you ever get the chance to read about the "History of Japan" you'll find that their beliefs of how they came to be a race, are couched in pornography as well.
March 2, 2008 at 6:06 PM
footiam said…
Yes, Liudmila, I really do not know the story. The fable is indeed deliciously funny! Now, is there a story on how the male have pubic hair too?
March 3, 2008 at 11:41 PM
footiam said…
Oh! Morganlighter, You enjoy HP. Many people enjoy HP! And yes, it' s incredible that you can talk about HP and ended with pornographic tales from the Pacific Islands. Somewhere I read, our minds are like monkeys, forever jumping! And by the way, do you have a blog where I could visit?
March 3, 2008 at 11:43 PM
Liudmila said…
:)) Fables here, fables there. Excuse me I offended your best senses with naturalism of aborigens. Magic powers of Harry Potter are surely a holy cow of modern person.
March 3, 2008 at 11:55 PM
footiam said…
No, you don't offend me at all. In fact, I was delighted to learn that there are pornographic fables! It goes to show that pornographic materials are just normal materials. Still wonder though if there is a fable to explain the male's pubic hair. Maybe, the male on seeing a bird hiding on the female's private part, decided to catch himself a bird too!
March 5, 2008 at 2:03 AM
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