Wanted: Info on America and some people to snub Blaise Zabini

[dolorous_ett]

Because I am a Quixotic masochist who really doesn't know when to take a break, I'm trying to work up a response to the omniocular Post-War Challenge. It's going to have to be quick and dirty because I'm very busy, but what the hell...

For this story I need two things.

First, whereabouts in the US is a good place to situate the ranch of a wealthy Wizarding landowner? It needs to be somewhere with a lot of space - somewhere with bison for preference, though these are optional.

Second, I need some walk-on characters to snub Blaise Zabini in a pub. I already have Hagrid, Crabbe and his wife, Eloise Midgeon and possibly Colin Dennis Creevey (changed at the request of synaesthete7) lined up for this - but the tables are large in the Leaky Cauldron, and I think it'll take quite a lot of quiet disapproval for Blaise to cotton on...

Just leave a message saying which canon character (preferably one who might plausibly be still alive post-war) you'd like to do the snubbing, and I'll do my best to accomodate. Thanks!

Comments

Re: No icon can describe the awfulness of Mulan

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

You could have Winnie The Pooh and Christopher Robin join him.

*reaches for huge club with spikes*

Not on my watch you don't - can't stand Winnie the Pooh. Or Christopher Robin. Sorry.

Re: No icon can describe the awfulness of Mulan

[dreamer-marie.livejournal.com]

OMGWTFBBQ!!!eleventyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!
u awful winnie basher....iH8 u.
(not seriously, of course, but you're the only person I kow sho doesn't like Winnie the Pooh. What's wrong with him?)
*is wondering why people bother with netspeak, since it's so difficult to type*

No icon can describe the awfulness of Winne the Pooh

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Well... it's down to personal taste. And I'll agree that there's something slightly inconsitent about being a massive Potter fan in my 30s but hating Pooh - to a lot of people I know there is no difference at all.

But that aside, I find Winnie-the-pooh sickly sweet, pointless, cutesy and also I dislike books that are sending a twee, clever-clever message to the adult readership over the heads of the child audience, who remain baffled.

It's not childhood for children, it's childhood for adults - and childhood lite.

Re: No icon can describe the awfulness of Winne the Pooh

[dreamer-marie.livejournal.com]

And I'll agree that there's something slightly inconsitent about being a massive Potter fan in my 30s but hating Pooh - to a lot of people I know there is no difference at all.
I swear the idea didn't cross my mind. You're perfectly allowed not to like Winnie The Pooh.
I once read about the philosophy of Winnie the Pooh, and honestly, if I hadn't, I would only have seen the nonsensical story of a stupid, honey-crazed, loveable teddy bear and his friends. And as I've completely forgotten what the philosophical message of Winnie the Pooh is (only that Eyoore may or may not be an existentialist), the adult message still goes over my head. So I enjoy it, just like any other 5 year-old.

Re: No icon can describe the awfulness of Winne the Pooh

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

The funny thing is, I didn't like it as a child. I was both bored and baffled!

Though that may not be indicative of anything. I was a very strange small child.

Re: No icon can describe the awfulness of Winne the Pooh

[dreamer-marie.livejournal.com]

Ah, well, we all have different taste. I had a burning passion for the countess of Ségur, and God knows when I picked it up again as an adult I wondered how I could ever have been infatuated with such sickening stuff. I wonder why my parents weren't disturbed by it and worried for me: it's XIXth century education at its most manicheistic, sugar-sweet and violent (parents beating the crap out of their children was perfectly OK). So there's no accounting for taste, I guess.