ADMIN: Comments on 'over-analysis' (was Re: JKR's play on words etc...)

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 13525

Crustum the Clown wrote:

<<And then there's my therory....you all read *way* too much into half of
this stuff.>>

Scott responded:

<<--But thats what this list if for isn't it? I mean sure we probably  "read
*way* too much" into the books, but I for one think it's fun!  Not to make
you mad or anything but that is the whole point of  literary discussion.
(Kinda like that rhinoceros reference that
 supposedly had something to do with Ionesco...)>>

Jen said:

<<Oh PLEASE, let's not talk about that one again.  I was the one who brought
up the rhino-allusion originally, and let me just tell you, I got very sick
of the "you're reading WAY too much into this - it's just ridiculous"
posts/emails that just seeing a reference to it raises my blood pressure.>>


Yes, let's leave the scab over that wound, shall we?

Jen is referring to an old thread that ended up causing some bad feeling on
the list.  So, in case anyone else was planning to comment on whether or not
some of us 'over-analyse' the Harry Potter books, I'll say, quite firmly,
don't even go there!  It may start off in good humour, but we could easily
end up with elevated blood pressure all round.

Thanks, everyone.

(Yes, I am wearing the moderator hairnet... and bunny slippers.  Wanna make
something of it?)

Neil

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