Allowable reader response was Re: Disappointed in Potter?

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 127740


 
> Phoenixgod:
> <SNIP>
> 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.
 
> Alla:
> 
> Agreed 100%. The reason why I love this list SO much is because 
there 
> is a place for everything - well researcned canon investigations, 
> speculations based on canon, complaints about anything canon 
related.

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> I LOVE the books and if I complain about them, it only means that i 
> CARE enough to complain about them.
> 
> This list is VERY diversed, I think. There is enough place to 
discuss 
> everything in very different manners.

Potioncat: (after the chocolate)
Absolutely. I never meant to say that a Harry Potter fan shouldn't 
discuss different aspects of the books. Nor does a fan have to like 
every detail of the books, but they do need to like the books.

Talk about plot development,or lack thereof. Give your opinion of 
who's cuter: Ron or Harry or who is sexier: Rosmerta or Bellatrix. 
Discuss whether certain characters are fleshed out or flat, whether a 
plot device worked, whether something was or was not supported within 
the canon. Discuss whether the book followed the rules of the genre. 
Discuss(your idea here) Make predictions, take chances get 
messy...oops wrong fantasy book.

This group has always been one that calls its members to a high 
standard of posting. We'll request the canon, counter with other 
examples and make the best point possible to agree with or disagree 
with the post. After a round of good hearted disagreement, 
we'll share a mug of something...having come to an understanding or 
having agreed to disagree.

We do it because we like the books and we like to discuss the books 
and we're open to other ideas. But this is not a site for people who 
do not like the books. If you just want to trash Harry Potter, this 
isn't the place. The very friend who talked me into reading Harry 
Potter has lost interest. The books became too dark for her. She 
didn't like PoA and she never read OoP. But she doesn't complain, she 
simply moved on.

So I understand something along the line of "I'll be very upset if 
Susan Bones dies." But I don't understand "If Susan Bones dies, this 
series will really suck and I'll never read another book again. Even 
if I did like it up to now. because I didn't get my money's worth."

I'll even agree with "If Susan Bones dies I'll be upset because there 
was no foreshadowing..."

Heck, if anyone could just say anything at this site, we'd have 
someone warning us of the danger of reading a book about witchcraft. 
And telling us where we were headed if we continued. Who wants to get 
into that?
Potioncat who hopes this is well said, but has to go now.