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And To Think, The World Almost Didn't Have Harry Potter To Blame For All Its Evils

HerBadMother — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:50:00 GMT

Harry Potter creator JK Rowling says that she came very, very close to committing suicide in the years before Harry Potter became a global bestseller. What saved her? Her daughter, Jessica.

Rowling says: "We're talking suicidal thoughts here, we're not talking 'I'm a little bit miserable.'"

"The thing that made me face the fact that this was not a normal state that I was in was probably my daughter [Jessica, then a baby].

"She was something that earthed me, grounded me, and I thought, 'This isn't right, this can't be right, she cannot grow up in this state,'" Rowling added.

With her regular doctor away at the time of her depression, she began seeing a therapist who "absolutely saved me."

Rowling said she has "never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never."

"I think I'm abnormally shameless on that account because what's to be ashamed of?"

She urges anybody suffering from depression to "go and get help.

"I went through a really rough time," Rowling added, "and I'm quite proud of the fact that I got out of that."

And Harry Potter fans everywhere are very, very grateful.

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Oscar Winner Says Harry Potter Is Bad For Kids

HerBadMother — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:03:00 GMT

No, it`s not because of the witchcraft and dark arts, or because Dumbledore`s gay or because that naughty Daniel Radcliffe showed his man-parts in that dirty stage play about horses or whatever. It`s because - get this - boarding school f*cks kids up, and the Harry Potter franchise glorifies boarding school.

So says Tilda Swinton, who insists that she would never, ever take a role in the Harry Potter movies for that very reason.

The actress, who played the White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia, told the April issue of Out magazine: "I'm loath to say anything good about going to boarding school, which is one of the reasons why I'm not a believer in Harry Potter. Because I believe it fetishizes boarding school for children."

Oooh. Fetishizes, even. Somehow, that just makes it sound all the more interesting. Which is the whole problem for Tilda, I`m guessing. Whatever. There are worse things to fetishize than studying hard and mastering all sorts of complicated arts at a boarding school, I think. I mean - it`s school. I`d much rather my kids fetishize school than, say, Miley Cyrus`s MySpace page or the cast of High School Musical (which, although it has `school` in the title, has nothing to do at all with school, being almost entirely concerned, as it is, with Zac Efron`s hair.) So, yeah - if my child grows up to devour the canon of Harry Potter novels and develops a hankering to go to boarding school, I`m not exactly going to be fussed about it.

I have every respect for Tilda, but she needs to chill.

No Harry Potter For Madonna's Daughter, Lourdes

Sassy Smith — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:03:00 GMT

Previous reports indicated that Madonna's daughter, Lourdes was being sought after for a lead role in the new Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, but producers have squashed that rumor.

Earlier sources had said that the studio wanted Lourdes to join the cast of the movie and that she was eager to accept the part. Not so says an insider at Warner Brothers, who insists that the casting for the film are complete and that Lola (Lourdes) is not part of the cast. "Casting is complete on the film, and she is not a part of it," the insider said.

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Harry Potter and Madonna?

Sassy Smith — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:05:00 GMT

It seems Warner Bros wants music icon, Madonna's, 11 year old daughter, Lourdes, in the next Harry Potter moive- The Half-Blood Prince.

Sources say that the studio bigwigs have asked Lourdes, also nicknamed Lola, to join the cast and that she really wants to do the role. It's a once in a lifetime deal!

“An executive at Warners wanted to cast Lola in the last Potter film and has renewed his interest for the next movie. Lola would love to do it - she is a huge fan,” a source told The Sun. “Lola has definitely inherited her mother’s hunger for fame. After all her recent public appearances, looking more like a sophisticated teen than a child, the attention on her is really growing. Offers have poured in - film offers, sponsorship.”

Madge's daughter has also been offered a role in a kids' musical in development by Warner Bros. As well, there's H&M's offer to get her to launch a line of kids' clothes designed by Lourdes. However, mom Madonna has big reservations about all of this and feels her daughter is just too young for the "fame game." I can't say I blame her. Seeing how the "child stars" of today sometimes turn out, would make any parent never want their kid to be in the spotlight!

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