Even a Worm Will Turn

No, that quote in the title doesn't quite sound right in this day and age, does it?  Even though it sounds like something from those execrable books, it is, in fact, attributed to a proverb by a 16th century playwright named John Heywood.  It speaks as to how even the lowly may become formidable if provoked.

Consider what has occurred to the author of the Harry Potter books:

Alice’s magic wand is made of pine, and it has a phoenix feather in its core. The 17-year-old Italian knows this because she uses Pottermore, a website where Harry Potter fans take quizzes to find out what life would be like if they lived in the wizarding world. On Twitter, she spends two hours a day updating her profile with clips, quotations and pictures from the books and films. But while Alice loves everything about Harry Potter (she has read each of the seven books 14 times), she does not like JK Rowling.

“I strongly dislike her,” Alice (who does not wish to disclose her surname) says. “I just think she wrote many beautiful things in Harry Potter, but she doesn’t live up to them in real life.”

It's remarkable how ideologies eventually devour themselves.  Also, Alice, please read some other books.