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[mollyringle]

I'm a few chapters into my re-read of Order of the Phoenix, and have reached a part where Harry is bitching about the Daily Prophet painting him as "just some stupid boy who's a bit of a joke, who tells ridiculous tall stories because he loves being famous and wants to keep it going."

"I didn't ask--I didn't want--Voldemort killed my parents!" Harry spluttered. "I got famous because he murdered my family but couldn't kill me! Who wants to be famous for that? Don't they think I'd rather it'd never-"

("We know, Harry," Ginny interrupts.)

Now, I realize the wizarding world doesn't truck with Muggle stuff, but if they have newspapers, surely they have something resembling a blog? Really that's all Harry needs. He must be the only teenager in the world who could fail to think of it--and he does live among Muggles. (Though Rowling seems to be ignoring the fact of the web for her otherwise-modern Muggle world.) He'd get a million readers instantly. He'd have to turn the "comments" feature off and hide his email address; but he'd get the word out, no question. Or, if wizards honestly have nothing like the internet (they do seem to rely on ye olde owls for all correspondence), he could take some of his gold and start up a separate paper. Again, I think he'd get more than enough subscribers. Why haven't any of them thought of this, if getting the "Voldemort is back" message out is so important to them?

Kids these days. I tell ya.

P.S. I need a HP icon. Make me some. Nothing slashy or too sentimental or eponymous (by "eponymous" I mean, say, a photo of Harry that says "Harry" in fancy writing).

Comments

[bluedragon716.livejournal.com]

He could always put out an ad on the WWN. Or in the Daily Prophet - they probably have a readers' comments area.

But really - what he should have done was taken a camera with him. Who wouldn't have paid to see inside photos of the maze, or the merpeople's dwellings? Plus then he could have photographic proof the Voldemort was back. I'm quite surprised no one thought of this.

[sopdetly.livejournal.com]

In the first episode of The X-Files, Mulder was highly equipped with lots of cameras and other gadgets to gather good evidence...

We never saw that stuff again. ;)

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

Heh! That's right. Where'd all his Ghostbusters gear go? Seemed like all they ever had was a gun and a flashlight (if they were lucky) when the eerieness started happening. :)

[sopdetly.livejournal.com]

And a cellphone. Don't diss the cellphone ;)

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

True, that would have been cool (the camera). And maybe with those moving wizard photos, there's some built-in way to detect whether the photo is genuine or not - since I'm sure it would be easy to cast a spell and make a fake photo. :)