My first blog-mentor-thing is Nina's blogpost on books for boy target audiences and girls reading. Firstly, I loved this post because I could completely relate to it. Being a girl, I also have tried to read a lot of "boy books". But I always get bored of them because I can't relate. I remember I used to read very girly books in 5th grade, about girls heading off to middleschool, and even though they were short and frivolous, I could relate because I was going through the same thing, and so I could read them.

I could write my second ALLSTAR!!! mentor post on any post of her blog really, but i choose this one because It got me thinking. Hannah's posts are always very provacative (thought provoking). This one in particular. It made me thing about how as we grow older, we seem to forget what it's like to be young. We condescend people younger then us, because OBVIOUSLY if we're older, we're smarter.

Right?

No. Maybe in some ways yes, because we do get more education. But that doesn't make us emotionally smarter. Adolescense is an age where you're full of emotions and can form connections with things. As we grow older, it seems we sort of emotionally disconnect. And we forget that we knew things when we were younger. Yes, we knew about sex and drugs and alcohol when we younger.
But we consider those "mature, grown-up topics", and pretend that just because we say they're for grown up, that means they really are for grown ups and kids dont know abouth them.

Sorry, this was supposed to be a paragraph right?

My third allstar mentor post I picked because It was something I thought only I had noticed. (If you havn't read Harry Potter 1-7 you probably won't get this, but you probably have read them. Because who hasnt?)

Ginny Weasly is a obnoxious, famewhore brat. 

 
She falls in love with Harry because he is THE-BOY-WHO-LIVED. She used her coniving red-head (joking, i have nothing against redheads) ways to lure him into loving her! Its ridiculous. Plus she seems very shallow. Maybe its because of how deeply all the other characters are developed, or maybe its because she really is. She seems like an unimportant character. If J.K. Rowling had killed her off during the Battle of Hogwarts, no one would have cared. Harry could marry Cho Chang. Because at least he actually liked her. I stand by my theory that Harry only likes Ginny because she convinced him to and because he doesn't know what love is. (Sure, the whole theme of the book is  real love conquers evil, but all Harry's loved are gone. Basically, Harry would love anything that could live.)