Come on folks (response to several criticisms)

[juli17 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 173501

 
Carla's subject for her post:
   Re: Too quick and a sell out 
 
Lady Potions wrote in agreement:
<snip> I do feel this book was rushed and a sell  out.



Annemehr wrote:
She doesn't understand him.  Or deserve him.  Not only did she  kill 
him off in cold blood and a bad vampire joke (bitten in the neck, are  
you kidding me?), but she burned up his book with nary a backward  
glance.
 
 
Julie now:
Come on folks! I think we are drifting into a dangerous territory,  
criticizing
JKR as a person and assuming we can read her mind or her intentions,
rather than criticizing her writing.
 
We do NOT have any reason to conclude that JKR rushed her writing of
this book (she wrote earlier books quicker). And whatever our opinion  of
how certain plotlines were resolved, I think it's unfair to accuse JKR of  
being
a "sell out." She wrote the books the way SHE envisoned them. Even if  that
vision doesn't jibe with many of our visions of how it should have gone,  that
doesn't indicate that she "sold out" in any way. She merely told her  story,
and we can like the story or not. 
 
Finally, Snape and all the other characters are JKR's. SHE CREATED  THEM.
To say that she doesn't *deserve* them or *understand* them is the height  of
unfairness, IMO. We may understand them differently from our readings,  and
I do agree that in a literary sense our understanding of each character is  as
relevant as JKR's, to *each* of us. But I don't think it gives us license  to 
impugn the author's own understanding of the characters as she wrote them. 
IMO. 
 
P.S. Do we know the Potions book burned? Was it even in the RoR  anymore
(I don't recall Harry mentioning its presence in that scene). If it was, do  
we know 
clever young Snape didn't put some charm on it to protect it?
 
Just some thoughts, 
 
Julie 



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