[HPforGrownups] Re:Liking J.K., not liking J.K. (was: ESE! JKR ?/not hard...

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> 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? 

Sandy:

Why am  I required  to like JKR simply because she created a fictional 
character I love? There are things about JKR that I *appreciate* but this does not 
equate to *liking* her. 



Katie:

> Harry is not an independent entity - J.K. created him, made him real to us <
> snip>

Sandy:

And your point is??


Katie:
> 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. 




Sandy:

You have never disliked someone you haven't personally met? You have never 
seen or heard someone speak that you have formed a dislike for just because of 
what they have said? I have never met George W. Bush, but the sight of him 
makes me nauseous and when he opens his mouth I want to hurl. I may not have met 
JKR but I know the side of her that she makes public and I don't like it, 
therefore I don't like her. Her early struggles as a single mother does not earn 
her sainthood in my book. I raised my oldest three children as a single mother, 
but that by no means makes me special or better than anyone else. As far as 
her writing goes -- the first four books were nothing short of spectacular, and 
she whipped them out in no time flat. The last two books, which took her 
forever to write, fell way short of the first four, and of what she is capable of. 
We are once again in an interminable wait for the last book and I just don't 
see how she can possibly sew up all the loose ends that need to be sewn. I 
believe she was at her best when she was a struggling starving artist, so to 
speak, but that her success has brought about a kind of sloppiness, for lack of a 
better term. 


 
Katie:
> 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
> 

Sandy:

As I said, I have learned my lesson about stating my feelings and opinions 
about JKR by having done so on other lists and then being flamed and attacked by 
those who think she walks on water. I will never make that mistake again. I 
don't like JKR -- I have my reasons -- nuff said. BTW, I love my grandchildren 
but can't stand their father who did create them. It is very possible to love 
something, or someone, without liking or respecting the creator.

Sandy


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