Allowable reader responce was Re: Disapointed in Potter?

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No: HPFGUIDX 127701





Lupinlore snipped:

Now, and here's where we get to the nub, both sets of people have
every right to air their opinions and will do so. And if you think
that the other side is going to shut up, or go away, or quit reading
the books, you are buying into a belief that is going to cause you
an enormous amount of pain and anguish because IT AIN'T GONNA
HAPPEN.

Snow:

There have been such excellent postings in the past and views on 
determining authorial intent and the "allowable reader response"; 
seeing through rose-colored glasses or a (Harry) filter can undermine 
the obvious. The intent of the writer is to confuse the reader by 
such tactic but at the same time place clues in an obscure manner to 
entertain the notion that she hasn't lied or pulled a fast one. In 
such a situation it is now up to the reader to figure out that old 
question `what is canon', just because it was said does not make it a 
truth; Sirius claimed that Crouch Jr. was dead and so the reader did 
not question beyond that which the Sirius filter had claimed in 
canon. To this extent it is up to the reader to determine what parts 
of the storyline are an absolute and which may be a filtered cover-
up. Rowling uses carefully placed wording throughout to set up the 
canon faith reader, and in the end to justify her means. When you can 
use canon examples like this to support your views as to what the 
author may do next, in my opinion, is not only the reader's privilege 
but to a certain extent an obligation. This type of writing is what 
promotes audience participation, which is highly encouraged by the 
writer herself and what this forum was created for.

HOWEVER, when you go beyond the invisible boundary to delegate what 
the writer should have done or should do, you have now ceased to 
explore the world of the writer and the limits that are allowable as 
a mere reader.  It is this boundary that has been crossed and is, as 
you put it, "a nub" to those who are viewing the books and world that 
Joanne Rowling created and NOT what we demand of the writer to 
produce or we will trash, burn or otherwise mutilate the books as you 
yourself, in the past, reiterated time and again. 

Snow

"So when you hear someone sneer at the Harry Potter books, either 
they haven't read them, and are therefore too ignorant to be listened 
to, or they haven't understood them, and are therefore not clever 
enough to take part in serious adult conversations."-- Orson Scott 
Card