Allowable reader responce was Re: Disapointed in Potter?

[phoenixgod2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 127712



> Snow:

> 
> 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.  

I can't be the only one who finds this more than a little insulting. 
The 'mere' reader is pretty darn important and we are allowed to go 
anywhere we please when we look at a story. 

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. 

I don't demand anything of a writer. I can't. believe me, if I could 
I wouldn't be so worried about stuff I don't like coming up in the 
story.  I do have things I would like to see and not see in the 
story. That is my absolute right.  I've invested a lot of time and 
emotion into harry potter.  I am absolutely allowed to have the 
opinion DD was out of character in OOTP. I am absolutely allowed to 
have the opinion that Ginny was poorly characterized and 
foreshadowed. I am absiolutely allowed to think that Luna is one of 
my favorite literary characters in the last five years. I am 
absolutely allowed to think that OOTP was oddly plotted out and 
relied on characters acting in a fashion not in line with previous 
books. I am absolutely allowed to complain about any damn thing I 
want to. 

And I am absolutely allowed to be waiting with baited breath for the 
next book.

I complain about books and shows that I love and want to see be the 
best they can be. I don't waste my time with books that I hate. I'm 
not a member of any John Knowles book lists because I think his 
books are steaming piles of you-know-what.  I think Harry Potter is 
one of the most ingenious concepts for a book ever. and I want to 
enjoy to the ride. Part of the ride is saying what I did and did not 
like about the stories.

I'm not going to stop, so learn to love the ride

phoenixgod2000