Guest's comment about gay-whatever is getting more attention from smart people than it deserves. I'm not sure it wasn't meant that Hagrid was somehow a lesbian. Or whatever. It's just silly bullshit. I'm sure kids who watch Potter will mostly grow up to be normal hetero Satan worshippers.

Emma Watson is interesting because she can act, and for some reason, young women seem to be able to play young women better, more often, than young men can play young men. What guy is parallel with Jodie Foster, or Anna Paquin, or whatshername, or Christina Ricci--some of these people get seriously worse as they get older. Um, Clare Danes. Maybe something to do with empathy.

Screw the gay thing. What's with the nerdy Bill Gates quality in male heros lately? I don't mind it, in particular, but too much of it will date just like like Starsky and Hutch, because it isn't quite that natural in young guys, really. It will stand out as odd, and particularly peculiar.