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Tuesday I could be found reading the wonderful website MuggleNet, as I so often do. Apparently, “Oscar producers asked JK Rowling and Stephenie Meyer to present together at this year’s ceremony.” (Article Link Here!) 
Forget for a moment that it would be an insult to Jo Rowling to even be asked to co-present with Stephenie Meyer. Stephenie Meyer should not even be asked to preside at awards. Obviously, the Oscar producers were desperate for some media attention from the younger generation. Both declined – Meyer because she’s Mormon and doesn’t work on Sundays — Rowling because she has scheduling conflicts. Now, I know Meyer is definitely Mormon and Rowling probably insanely busy, but I also think there’s the small factor that the two of them really don’t want to meet.
Think of it. J.K. Rowling is a top of the line author who writes for all ages, genders, every demographic, whereas Stephenie Meyer…well, she admits she writes for 12-year-old girls. Rowling writes with excruciating detail and original characters that are deep on so many multiple levels – they’re almost realistic. She created a world so phenomenal, there are over 150 characters equaling in level depth. And then you have Meyer, with Mary-Sue protagonist Bella Swan, a sparkling boyfriend, and cliché, guessable plots – this writer seems to write only for her fans. (The 12-year-old girls).
J.K. Rowling is no fool. She knows it would be bad if she decapitated Stephenie Meyer (how much everyone may want her to do so). She also knows that meeting Meyer would result in a showdown so epic, it would be like no other Author Battle before.
Meyer: “….Edward, sparklingfancysuperhot vampire…”
Rowling: “Real vampires don’t shine.”
Meyer: “Mine do – they’re perfect” -swoons-
Rowling (in her fancy British accent): “Oh, please. My Cedric Diggory teenage wizard could beat your hundred year old Edward in a heartbeat – and he got killed in book 4!”
Meyer: “You kill your characters! I don’t have the gall to do that to them.”
Rowling: “So you settle for a book that anticipates a huge battle and results in a little handshake in the end. Really realistic.”
…and on and on. It is quite obvious that Jo Rowling would win the Battle of the Writers – she thinks things out a hundred times better than Meyer does. Quite frankly, it’s insulting that Stephenie Meyer should be considered next to Jo Rowling.
So tell me: What’s your opinion of a Jo Rowling – Stephenie Meyer showdown? Who would win? What’s your opinion of the two meeting?
