Sexuality! and Poor Writing! - JKR's Mistake

[Mike]

> Alla:
> 
> Great post Mike. What I am wondering about though is how the leap 
> is made from disliking the book or hating the book to calling JKR 
> herself evil. 

Mike:
Just to make a distinction. 

I'm not really talking about thinking the author is evil. That, to 
me, is out of bounds. Whatever someone's opinion is on any particular 
author should not come from their body of work, in my way of 
thinking. Drawing conclusions beyond what Magpie called the author's 
general feelings towards a character or trait seems to credit oneself 
with a Legilimatic ability that I find unlikely, to say the least.

And obviously I'm talking about fiction authors here.


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> Alla:
> 
> Meaning how they (not just Magpie, anybody) managed to figure out 
> what kind of person JKR is without ever meeting her. <snip>

Mike:
Oh geez, No, I surely wasn't saying Magpie was saying this stuff and 
if it sounded like I was, I apologize. My post was a reply to 
Magpie's but I was also addressing a lot of the points that Susan 
(The McGee) and Carol had brought up in previous posts.

I do agree with your point about personally vilifying the author, 
Alla. And I know a few people have done that. But I was trying to 
restrict myself to the analysis of the books. 

Maybe I wasn't clear, what I was talking about was those that 
vilified JKR's written word, not that they were saying anything about 
JKR personally. As I said above, anybody that makes the argument that 
JKR is evil, I'm going to dismiss as giving themselves too much 
credit in the ability to read minds.

Mike