A bit frustrated with fandom at the moment - DH spoilers

[Lisa]

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> va32h here:
>
> I have seen this attitude in several forums and quite frankly, it's
> infuriating to me that we are expected to treat Deathly Hallows with
> nothing less than reverence, as if JKR had descended from the mount
> with the text inscribed upon slabs, instead of selling it to us at
> $35 a pop. <snip the rest>

This is not at all what I said.  I agree that we have every right to
criticise and explore the holes in the story and the missing
information that we'd wished she'd put in/explained/etc.

There is a difference between critiquing the WRITING and flaming the
WRITER.

To say - as I have seen mulitple times in the various fandom
communities now - that JKR should not have done a 'battle at Hogwarts'
or an 'Epilogue at the train station with sappy
children-named-after-the-dead' because it was sappy and overdone,
already in FANFICTION is to rob JKR of the right and ownership of her
characters and her story.

My frustration and concern is the people who want to flame the whole
series, in general and the author specifically, rather than rationally
discuss and explore the text of the story and the characters involved.

No one made anyone pay any money for these books.  If we didn't like
them, we didn't have to buy them, read them, absorb them.

Critique is good and constructive.

Personal attack of the author is unnecessary.

Lisa