[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Of human errors

[Monica Boukhalfa]

Booo! Her response to you was rude.
I completely agree with you.
In the words of Hermione, 'ignore it!'

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:03 am, justcarol67 wrote:
> Carol earlier:
>>
>>
>>  Having just made a pretty big blunder on the main list, mistaking
> comments relating to Eileen and Tobias Snape for comments relating to
> Andromeda and Ted Tonks, mentioned in the previous paragraph of the
> post, I now have increased sympathy for JKR as a human being capable
> of error. <snip>
>>
>>  Really, we shouldn't be surprised that it's flawed.
>>
>>  Sandy:
>>  It is statements like this that make me so furious. Since when is
> having family responsibilities a free pass for doing a crappy job? My
> company's policy is: You leave your personal problems and life at the
> door when you walk in. I have family responsibilities and have to pay
> the bills, and with very little money I might add, but that does not
> give me a free pass at work. I make a mistake I face disciplinary
> action for it, and they don't care what my personal problems are. She
> chose to get married and have a family, and she chose her career. If
> she can't handle both she needs to give one of them up. What makes it
> all so different for her? Grrrrr. And, btw, Mackenzie is almost 3,
> David is 5 and Jessica just turned 14 last month.
>>
>>  Sandy, who cuts JKR no slack because she has "obligations" family or
> otherwise.
>
> Carol responds:
>
> Not exactly the response I expected to my apology for my own onlist
> blunder!
>
> BTW, I know from experience that three- and five-year-olds are no
> easier to care for than babies, and fourteen is a difficult age. I
> wasn't making excuses for JKR, I was empathizing with her human
> capacity for error, which I share.
>
> Carol, not knowing what to say but thinking that I'll keep my
> apologies offlist in future
>
> 
--Monica M. Boukhalfa
The power of accurate oberservation is frequently called cynicism by 
those who don't have it.
-George Bernard Shaw (1865-1950)