[HPforGrownups] My Post Again

[Sue Porter]

No: HPFGUIDX 78986




>From: "severusbook4" <severusbook4 at yahoo.com>
>.  It seems strange to me that we have come to be
>afraid to voice our opinions if it may offend some one of a minority
>group, and that is wrong.  My opinion that Harry is straight is
>based on written proof but is flamed while some ones homosexual
>fantasy, that has no reason to be in a book discussion forum, is
>alright?  Please explain this to me, I thought we were discussing
>the books and our theories of what may happen and who is or is not a
>DE supporter.  Where did the gay thread come from?  Is there any
>proof?  I agree with the person that stated that the more off your
>theory is the higher the wall of proof needs to be.
>
>I am also sorry for the way I write my opinion sometimes, adult ADD
>does break and muddle ones chain of thought, so I tend to jump
>around in subjects quite abit.  If you can follow it and get the
>gist of what I am writting, more power to you.
>
>Severus "Adult ADD poster child" Snape
>

Sue:

Hey Sevvie, please don't get confused. I think I might have started one or 
other of those 'gay' threads, and didn't want to start a war. But I also 
reiterated to another poster that everyone had the right to their own 
opinion and should be allowed to express it, without it becoming nasty or 
personal.

I actually sit here reading all these emails and get myself terribly 
confused. I read one and think, 'yes I agree with that', then the next one 
comes along totally disagreeing with the first one, and I think 'oh, yes, 
that's right too'. I crack myself up laughing at myself. (and yes, I know 
there are too many 'myselfs' in that sentence! LOL)

I suppose what I'm really trying to do is to reiterate what I originally 
said and that is that everyone has the right to their opinion and their own 
ideas of where different story lines are going, picking up on slight little 
clues that might fit in with what they would like to see happen, and (and 
it's a big AND) making assumptions based on desires (no, not of the flesh) 
when there is no canon to back it up. Shipping is just another assumption, 
like Umbridge being a DE. We can try to find things in the books to back up 
our assumptions but everyone interprets scenes or paragraphs or sentences 
differently.

Personally, I like people disgreeing with me, because it lets me see that 
there are different ways of interpreting the same scene, and as I said 
before, half the time I agree with the person disagreeing with me, so work 
out how blonde I am (Oh no, don't start with blonde abuse pleeeease).

I hope it was not something I wrote that you think was a flame, I do not do 
that, I do not agree with it at all. As long as people disagree with what I 
said and don't tell me or imply I'm an idiot for saying it, that's fine by 
me. I don't want to offend anyone. I like to throw some curve balls 
sometimes late at night when the evil fairy is sitting on my shoulder, just 
to see a reaction, but they would never be aimed at anyone personally.

Sue (trying to purr now that the pigeons have decided to attack each other)

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