ADMIN: Rudeness and Insults

[a_reader2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 101251

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Jennifer Jarrett 
<jenjar2001 at y...> wrote:
> Hi Kelley elf,
> 
> I hope I'm directing this comment to the right
> place--please let me know if I'm not.  The debates
> which I'm assuming you are referring to have been
> bothering me for additional reasons.  It seems that at
> least half the threads on the list end up being an
> ethics discussion rather than a discussion of the
> Harry Potter books.  People seem to be using the
> characters and themes in Harry Potter just as a
> starting point for ethics discussions and very little
> of these discussions has much to do with the books. 
> It feels very off-topic to me but maybe I'm wrong.  If
> there are people who really enjoy this type of
> discussion maybe they could have it on another list? 
> Just a suggestion...
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Jenjar

Carolyn:
I must (respectfully, of course) disagree. I have really enjoyed the 
Snape/Harry debate, and although people shouldn't start slinging 
personal insults, the reason people get so heated is precisely 
because the Potter books pose ambiguities about all sorts of issues 
that matter. That's what this list is for, and why so many adults 
idle away their time reading it. IMO it only becomes OT when there is 
no reference to canon to support an argument - and that certainly 
hasn't been the case in this series of posts!