Sexuality! and Poor Writing! - JKR's Mistake, JKR as evil

[susanmcgee48176]

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> Mike now:
> Personally, I think there are a lot of things to discuss about 
> Dumbledore specifically and the HP series in general after the last 
> canon, besides some non-essential piece of backstory trivia that 
> sheds little to no light on the story. 
> 
> I think the antagonistic feelings towards DH that were expressed on 
> Main, after the release, drove its share of people off the list. I 
> also wonder how many people left the list because of the vitriolic 
> debate spawned by JKR's gay!DD comment. Short term volume, long 
term 
> decimation of readership and posting. I think JKR"S utterence has 
> done irreparable harm to the franchise, all aspects of it.
> 
> JMO,
> Mike
>

Well, imho, I don't think it was JKR's UTTERANCE, I think it was fan 
REACTION - the vitriolic debate -- that might have driven people off 
the list.

And I think there was far more "vitriolic reaction" here in the U.S. 
than in Europe....

But I'm one of the ones who:

does think JKR's utterances are canon (after all, to make them canon, 
all she'd have to do was publish a short story, how is that 
difference than writing it on her website?) again, a difference of 
opinion..

and who

loved DH....

I was totally turned off by the list, not just by the constant 
denunciations of DH (and I don't mind criticisms, but had a hard time 
with denunciations) and THEN even BEFORE JKR revealed that DD was in 
love with GG, the vitriolic comments about her. I complained to the 
list elves...to be clear, have no problem with saying she's a poor 
writer, inconsistent, uses too many adverbs, etc. etc... 
but I was totally turned off by constant, frequent, off the cuff 
denunciations of her as publicity hungry (the woman who is guarding 
her children's privacy zealously), money hungry (the philanthropist), 
cravenly, cowardly, viciously destroying the story for fans, 
callously and deliberately letting her fans down.....etc. etc.

I actually CAN understand how some people see being lesbian and gay 
as an issue of morality (although I don't agree), but I CANNOT 
understand how (to use an easy example) people seeing Harry getting 
involved with Ginny rather than Hermione as SUCH an issue that it 
destroys the series.

I had a very hard time with people demonizing and denouncing 
JKR...after all, she is the person who created the universe in which 
*I* delight in, read, look at movies about, talk to my children and 
peers about, etc. If you're one of the 27,000 people on HP for 
Grownups, I assume you're there because there was something you liked 
about the series -- something magickal, wonderful, something that 
hooked you...so now the creator is the Devil? Don't get it at all...
Again, I don't mean people who "didn't like" or were "disappointed" 
by DH, or didn't like the endless camping scene, or found the 
epilogue saccharine (I loved it, but I'm a mushy sentimentalist, and 
would have loved one 60 pages)...I mean the people who condemned all 
the books as total trash....

And to go back to the person who asked what it was that hooked us, I 
think it's a combination of the magick, fantasy, creating a new 
world, and the mystery elements, as well as the character development 
and growth...

Well, back to work, anyone got any good crock pot recipes? (which is 
why I like OT)

Susan