Anger towards JKR (was Re: Great group / Quoted text)

[va32h]

--- In HPFGU-Feedback at yahoogroups.com, Schlobin1 at ... wrote:

> Well, really Arianna, your response encapsulates the severe problems
I have with the list. I am not the only adult who feels the same way.
>  
It was almost funny when JKR said she got hate mail from grown-ups
about  the fact that Harry and Hermione didn't become romantic
partners. On one of the lists, another grownup said it was horrible
that DD was gay, she could have dealt with him being bisexual, but she
wanted to maintain her romantic fantasies  about him.
>  
I think some people on the list have lost touch with reality.  Seriously.
>  
Here's JKR who gives millions to charity. She's written wonderful
books  about love, trust, fighting for justice and tolerance. She has
an amazing imagination -- she's created a universe full of incredible
creatures, history, mythology, etc. If you watch her read you can tell
she loves her books and she oves children. She's done all kinds of
amazing things for kids.
>  
> On the list I've read that she's trying to get more attention and
more money! She doesn't need any more attention - she gets more than
most people in  the universe. She has plenty of money - she's the
richest woman in England.  

> Still, she stays true to her values. She loves her husband, he's
obviously a great guy, and they are protecting their children from the
spotlight.
>  
> Yet everyone seems to want her to be perfect. Too many people are
furious because the end to the books didn't match their fantasy or
vision. 
>  
> Gosh, it's fine to be annoyed -- but then to turn around and
viciously attack the author? Ychhh....To impute that she "callously
destroyed" the  universe? 

> Callously means that she did it to be nasty and mean? Do you really
 think that? Goodness gracious me!
>  
> I also worry a little bit. Will some mentally ill fan attack JKR
because  she or he is angry that Hedwig was killed? Or that she never
did tell us what individual would develop magical powers in later
life? There's real fuel for the fire for emotionally disturbed
individuals on the list.
>  
> If I were running the list, I'd put out a plea for people to just
calm down  
> a little bit.

va32h:

Wow.  In your previous post you said the list was a little too mean
spirited for your tastes and now you've just implied that people who
complain about DH are out of touch with reality, emotionally
disturbed, mentally ill, and may very well attack JKR!

Goodness gracious, if I were running the list I'd have to plea for a
stop to this "JKR is an amazing woman and no one is allowed to be
critical of her" notion.

I don't want JKR to be perfect (and I find it ironic that you accuse
others of that in a post that goes on and on about how very perfect
you think JKR is!).  I have no clue what JKR's values are so I really
don't know how true she stays to them.  And I've never met her husband
so I have no idea if he's a great guy or not. I think she's a human
author and as such ought to be subject to the same criticism as any
other human author. 

As for the list itself (to stay on topic), I think the elves do a
fabulous job. 

There are posters who over-quote or don't tweak the title (I'm sure
I'm guilty of hat too) but given the volume of posters, I think we
have a very well-managed group in which the moderators do their jobs
with out coming off as jackbooted thugs!

My only suggestion might be to have a greater variety of topics -
perhaps the elves could have a topic of the week?  It seems that every
month or so we end up back in the eternal Sirius V. Snape debate and I
find that very boring.  

va32h