Sexuality! and Poor Writing! - JKR's Mistake

[dumbledore11214]

> <snip>
> > 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
>


Alla:

Oh Mike, do not apologise, my response was also a sort of general 
reply to this argument and since often enough as I mentioned before I 
do read JKR's word evil equals JKR herself is evil, I ventured into 
it.

I did think that you were referencing JKR evil as well, but I reread 
your post and see that you did not, sorry about that.

But as I said, I do stand by what I said about these arguments in 
general ( calling JKR crasy, evil without meeting her in RL)

But actually if we are talking about vilifying JKR's word, I DO 
understand this POV. I will never read it this way, and as I said I 
am 100% agree with your reading of Slytherin's issue ( adding that I 
said about Slytherins who joined resistance standing out a lot to 
me), BUT as long as we are not saying that the author agrees with 
evil ideas, sure I can see calling the **ideas** in the book evil, 
why not?

I mean, imagine the most extreme example, say somebody is saying in 
the work of fiction - let's go and kill people - not as in defending 
your city, country, against magical evil, but just for the fun of it.

And this character manages to succeed doing it and author cheers him, 
etc as the greatest character ever.

Would you not say that this is evil? I mean, it will never enter my 
mind as default assumption that author LIKES this evil no matter how 
sympatheticly it is portrayed, but I would totally say that the 
CHARACTER 
is evil and his actions are, even if he won't get properly punished 
or something, you know?

Having said this, I myself after reading hundreds of books during my 
lifetime, I have not read a book yet, which ideas I would call evil. 
Well, except "mein campf", but I only read few excerpts and actually 
calling evil based on what I KNOW the author did in RL.

Maybe I should not call that book evil either and just stick to 
calling the author evil in that instance, I think this would be a 
safe one, LOL.

JMO,

Alla.