Parody

Today we were introduced to parody...am guess what?I am beginning to like parody! I mean, it's interesting to read about people mocking on other people's work!Ms Dzeelfa has given us a few examples of parody and I like the one about the Hansel and Gratel...very un-fairy tale. Sometimes it is enjoying to read other people views and perceptions of a literary works. I didn't realized that almost every literary works has its own parody.It could be exciting to the readers but I'm jusy wondering, how would the author feels about his or her works being mocked and published? Does it affects the author? Ms Dzeelfa told us that there is a book of parody about Harry Potter called Barry Trotter written by Michael Gerber. I have came across the parody version of Lord of the Rings-Bored of the Rings...I just have a glance at it and I think it is a non-humorous version...well, I don't really know. Personally, I don't think JK Rowling really mind about people mocking the world's famous witch boy because she is so famous and rich-but what about the unfamous author?Do they care?