It's over, Snape is evil (but maybe not 100%)

[juli17 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 138362

Del wrote:


>  You're the one who keeps reminding 
> us that JKR has no duty towards  her readers. 
 
Eggplant wrote:



Yes, but she does have a duty not to betray her genius. 
 
Julie says:
And who makes that judgment? Some of the things you've
written seem to imply if JKR doesn't write what *you* want--
Snape ESE, Dumbledore irrefutably dead--then she will be
betraying her genius. 
 
We all want to see different things happen--whether it's a
particular 'ship, Snape good or bad, Harry alive or dead, etc,
etc. It's only human nature to project our experiences and
desires onto what we read--our *bias* if you will. And the
complexity and ambiguity of the Harry Potter saga makes
it especially impossible not to do so. But it is JKR's story,
and I think it would be a bit immature to consider ourselves 
betrayed by JKR if she doesn't tell the story the way we 
wanted or expected.
 
 
That's because JKR has no *duty* whatsoever in regards to
her writing, other than to suit herself. If she wants her books
to sell, she'd be smart to pay attention to her audience (and
she clearly has done that very well), but she's still under no 
obligation to do so. No writer is. 

 
And as readers we always have the choice to toss/give away
a book if the story just doesn't work for us. (With HP this  could
happen for me if Harry dies in the end, unless I find some
at-this-moment-unanticipated way to accept it, which perhaps 
I would.)
 
IMO, 
 
Julie 
 
 


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