Fly on the wall commentator

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 174925

>>zenonkowalewski wrote:
>> Is it just me or is there
> > a lot of complaining going on in this group?  I felt like using
> > Crucio myself after reading some of the messages (I will not point
> > fingers!)

>rolshan2000 wrote:
<snipping>
>Well I 
> think, as you say, many posters got derailed into some parallel HP 
> series that was in their head but never on the page!
> 

colebiancardi:

I didn't want to respond to the first charge, but after the second
one, I felt I needed to add my 2 knuts on these charges.

I've read every post since the reopening of these boards after DH's
came out.  I read positive and negative reviews - at this point, the
boards are split pretty much down the middle.  So, I am not sure where
"a lot of complaining" comment is coming from.  There are just as many
positive threads as ones that are disappointed.

Also, I do not believe that "many posters got derailed into some
parallel HP series".  Canon through-out the first 6 books gave us
insight into "not all evil people are DH" and that there might be some
good Slytherians out there.  We saw the Unforgiveable Curses being
names as such and through out the series, Harry could not issue such a
curse because he never had it in him.  That is not a parallel HP
series;  those are the writings of JKR.

To think that those who were expecting more on these lines of thought
and to suggest they were reading some other books is absurd in my
opinion. 

Last time I checked, this board was set up to provide lively and
polite discussions on the HP series.   To many readers, many things
were still left unresolved - from the ages of certain people to the
moral use of UC's to the division of the Houses.

I've been on these boards a long time; to paraphrase a certain Potions
professor, I see no difference in the boards prior to the release of
DH and now.  The discussions are still going on and if you take a
snapshot of the boards after any of the book's releases, you will see
both positive and so-called negative comments.

If you wish to discuss the positive aspects of the book, then you are
free to start a thread, as many others have done so.  But I do wish
members would not try to demean or insult other members who have valid
criticisms of this last book.  

I have posted on both positive and the *so-called* negative threads. 
I believe that in our group, we have space enough to have both sides.

colebiancardi