Reason versus Emotion

[aquariajade <toberead@excite.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51399

Hello there,

After I posted so brazenly that I did not like Harry, I sat back and 
watched as the *inevitable* in defense of Harry posts came up. Each 
person took the different adjectives that I had described Harry with 
and came up disputed them, sometimes with canon example, IIRC.

It got me to thinking about this board and reason versus emotion. Now 
please note, I am not a debater. I do not like debating. Debates seem 
to me to be highly thought out intellectual "arguments", in which 
someone always gets hurt. I do appreciate this the spirit of this 
board, though, the well-crafted theories and expostulations and 
thoughts I have read here have been nothing short of amazing (Elkins 
and Jasmin come to mind).

But I am an emotional being, and how I view things is from that 
filter, generally. I do not like Harry. It is not an arguable 
subject. Nothing anyone says is going to make me say: "Aha! They are 
right, and Harry is not a nosey, self-centered, spoiled little git!" 
It is not possible, because it is an EMOTION, which can not be 
reasoned with. I just do not like him, and that is that. But I 
noticed that folks tried to use REASON to argue their points, and (I 
may be extrapolating here) to convince me otherwise.

My point? Hmmm, do not know if I have one (I *told* you I was not 
good at debating), except to say that I firmly believe that all of us 
are here for the *emotional* impact HP has brought to us, and though 
we love to use our reason to theorize and discuss JKR's wonderful 
IMAGINARY world. A world in which the NOT REAL characters do not need 
defense as they are well, NOT REAL. But the people reading about and 
forming feelings about these characters ARE real, and that is what we 
need to keep in mind above all when we are *reasoning* with each 
other on our *emotions* about IMAGINARY people.

So. Do not know if that had a point, felt like more of a ramble, but 
I ask that anyone who does respond be kind to me, a VERY REAL 
emotional person.

Best,

Jade