Of human errors

[raymond300659]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, JC/TsuKata <tk-listmail at ...> 
wrote:
>
> >
> >  Carol:
> >
> > 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. I can't remember exactly how old her youngest children 
are
> > now, but I believe that Mackenzie (sp?) is about a year old and 
David
> > about two, and she also has an older daughter, Jessica, about 
ten (?),
> > as well as a husband and 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.
> >
> > 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. 
> TsuKata:
> 
> I'm with Sandy here.  For starters, I'm sure that JKR can hire a 
nanny, 
> as well as an accountant to take care of her bills.  But even 
going on 
> the assumption that with all those muggle-ish things taken care of 
by 
> the scads of money she has, she has stress in her life, it's no 
excuse. 
> As someone else pointed out in a subthread, I think Carol (OP) may 
have 
> felt some humility but is also unfairly comparing a personal 
mistake 
> with a professional error.
> 
> Now, I have no problems with gaping plot holes.  I'm a Star Trek 
fan 
> after all, and it has its share!  What I have trouble with is that 
JKR 
> seems very arrogant about her gaping plot holes in interviews.  
She 
> blames them on prying fans.  She says that she carefully worded 
the 
> prophecy, and it's bloody incoherent when put up against the plot 
of 
> DH.  I'd be much happier if she just said "Hey, I've written seven 
> incredibly long books in a short period of time, and if you saw 
the plot 
> holes we caught at the last moment, you'd be thankful that we only 
left 
> in the ones that we did."  Instead, it's like she's angry we have 
the 
> audacity to query her work.
> 
> I think it's natural that with a work this large, there will be 
gaps.  
> There were gaps in LotR, and Tolkien had years to edit, plus a 
mind like 
> a steel trap.  I don't think it's natural to treat those gaps with 
the 
> flippancy that JKR has.
> 
> --TsuKata
>
re plot holes just because you do not get the book you wanted or the 
one you think you deserve you have the right to pull it apart maybe 
the u.k books are not the same as u.s.a but read the books forget 
the story that you want and enjoy them.
raydav