OT: Latin (was boggart) patronus or father?

[rcraigharman at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 18789

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Lumen Dei" <lumen_dei at f...> wrote:
> Well, well.  I find it interesting that the two who took exception
> to my reflection on "Expecto Patronus" are both men.  Now that
> might just be sheer coincidence, but it might have something to do
> with the much deeper question.  I don't take the books lightly.
> She is not a bubble-headed woman, as anyone knows who reads some
> of the interviews.  She has suffered, and it has dug caverns into
> her soul.  She has a real theme/message or "philosophy" behind what
> she is doing/writing.

Ad nauseam.

Lumen, I take strong exception to your rather sexist remarks.

My comments were restricted to your interpretation of the Latin,
which I saw as generously poetic, from my experience with
Latin.  If you choose to see overtones of a universal cry for a
father-figure in the patronus spell, I certainly cannot stop you.

Nevertheless, your biased remarks accuse me and your other
interlocutor of a failure to see the proper depth in JKR's writing
and personality.  I would aver, that it is clear from our comments
in this forum that neither he nor I considers her writing to be
frothy, lightweight, or irrelevant in the least.  Were the contrary
true, I suspect that neither of us would bother wasting our time on
the subject.

A disagreement with your thoughts is not an attack on JKR nor her
work; and it seems to me that you need to learn to divorce your
interpretation of JKR's work and person from the reality thereof.

....Craig