Defend OOTP against my horribly Muggle mind

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No: HPFGUIDX 76743

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, A Featheringstonehaugh 
<featheringstonehaugh at y...> wrote:
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> AF:  Indeed. Speaking of grammatical nightmares......
> AF:  Yes.  "Spare" us, (PLEASE), from "cliches" such as "purple 
prose that trickles down from the Muse."  and from the "overuse" of 
("punctuation") marks and CAPS. 
Quoted: "purple prose" as used by Stephen King in "On Writing."  
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> AF:  What is improving  -  JKR's lack of training and experience?  
And this perceived lack of training and experience is improving with  
____ training and experience?
...of training and experience are part of the preposition, therefore 
the noun is "lack" which is improving.
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> AF: "their" and "In retrospective"? Typos, no doubt. Surely you 
intended to write "his" and "in retrospect".  
I used the plural intentionally to avoid sexism.  
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> AF:  To qualify?  Even with that curious word choice, perhaps a 
better phrasing would be:   "To qualify any of these books as 
stunning examples of Literature would, for a start, be an insult to 
Strunk and White."
You have proved a point here. To quote Buffy The Vampire Slayer, "My 
Bad." 
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> AF:  Surely , just surely, you meant Literature, not literature. 
Let's not forget that capital letter, shall we?  

I stand by the original capitalization, "literature" with a 
little "l" because the series is unfinished and unproven.

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