Putting words in other posters' mouth / Choices

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 136913

Valky wrote (snip of almost everything):
"You're right, and Harry must now turn to himself. But I think he's
used to doing that really. And you might agree that some of the canon
I have put forward suggests he's actually not doing a half bad job of it."

Del replies:
I do agree.

Wwhen I was reading your post, a thought kept coming into my mind:
"finally!"

Finally someone is discussing my points, instead of discussing my
right to make them. Finally someone is explaining to me how and why
they read the same bits of canon differently than I do, instead of
telling me that I shouldn't read them the way I do, that most people
don't, that I shouldn't project my own experience and understanding or
that this is not how JKR meant me to understand it. Finally someone is
validating my views while at the same time explaining why maybe they
are not really aligned with canon. And finally someone manages to make
some new possibilities enter my mind (as Lynn also did before),
instead of pointlessly antagonising me.

Yours, Valky, was a thoughtful and USEFUL post, an exemplary post. It
furthered both the discussion (though I most probably won't keep
discussing that point right now) and my understanding of and insight
into the Potterverse.

Thank you!

Del