Liking J.K., not liking J.K. (was: ESE! JKR ?/not hardly)

[Kathryn Lambert]

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octobersChild48 at aol.com wrote:

I am not Lupilore, nor do I advocate his opinion of child abuse in the 
series, but I do believe he has a right to his opinions and to express them. I am 
responding to this because I, myself, do not like JKR, no way, no how. 
...(snipped about a paragraph)...I "waste my time" on JKR and this list because I do love Harry Potter ....(snipped a long sentence)...Once the Harry 
Potter series is over I am done with JKR, no matter what the outcome is, but I 
have asked for a place in line to borrow Lupinlore's chipper IF Harry dies. 


  Katie(anigrrrl2 at yahoo.com) responds:
  I have met quite a few people who say they "don't like" J.K. Rowling, but they love Harry. First of all, I find it strange to not at least admire and respect the person who created a character you love. If you love Harry, how can you  claim to dislike the person that created him? 
  Harry is not an independent entity - J.K. created him, made him real to us, and in my opinion, gave me a wonderful gift. I have derived more hours of joy reading those books than I can even count. I have shared the books with my friends and family, and we now have even more to talk about and bond over. 
  Secondly, how can you dislike someone you have never met? I neither dislike J.K. nor like her - I don't know her. What I do have for her is an enormous amount of respect for her early struggles(I myself was raised by a single mother), respect for her writing, which is never condescending or dumbed down, and gratefulness for her creation of Harry and his world. 
  You absolutely ARE entitled to any opinion, and entitled to express it...but I just wonder how you came to feel that way, since you love Harry...it just doesn't compute to me. IMHO, Katie