Of human errors

[Steve]

---  OctobersChild48 at ... wrote:
>
> 
>  Carol:
> 
> 
> ... I now have increased sympathy for JKR as a human
> being capable of error. ... the usual family 
> obligations like paying ...bills and so forth. All 
> that plus the pressures of being a celebrity and 
> producing a much-anticipated work on a deadline.
> 
> 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? ...
> 
> Sandy, who cuts JKR no slack because she has 
> "obligations" family or otherwise.
> 


bboyminn:

First, 'crappy job' is your opinion and not a fact. 
Certainly a vast majority of us are satisfied and
even please with the book. So, let's not let hyperbole
runs away with us.

Next, I question whether JKR's final work is any more
flawed than any other book out there. If I pick at the
obsessive level that we are using to judge JKR, I'm 
sure I can find flaws and errors in nearly every 
written work.

Many authors, when they need the moon to be full, the
moon is full, even if in the real world the moon was 
not or could not be full on the particular night. If 
they need an impossible to highly unlikely bit of
science to exist, then it exists. It is call 'artistic
license'. You are allowed to fudge reality a bit to 
tell a story. You are even allowed to die and come
back again, /a la/ - Sherlock Holms. 

It is the story and it's flow that counts, not the 
picky little details. I think this story flowed very
smoothly from beginning to end with only the slightest
little bumps in the road. 

I still say many of the more extreme negative feeling
toward the book are not so much that you (the general 
'you') didn't like what you got, but that you didn't 
get what you wanted or expected. But, to fully deliver 
the 'wants' and 'expectation' of her fan base would have
been totally impossible not to mention a disaster of a 
book. If you don't like the story you got, fine,
find some fan fiction alternative versions, but don't
complain because the author didn't tell the story 
you (the general 'you') wanted to hear. 

The author first and foremost obligation is to tell
the story she has to tell. For that, I applaud her.

There were plenty of story lines that I wanted and
expected, but I accepted and thoroughly enjoyed the
story I got. 

But then...that's just my opinion.

Steve/bboyminn