[HPforGrownups] I am about to rant....

[Kathryn Lambert]

No: HPFGUIDX 173559

Geoff Bannister <gbannister10 at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:          Geoff:
Warning. I think I am about to rant. :-)

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What I am trying to get at is instead of trying to score points off one 
another or run down what JKR has written, why don't we try looking 
for things to agree on; things that we like about the books. Instead 
of perpetual negativity, why don't we look for good things, encouraging 
things, things to say "wow" about? Instead of counting the dead, why 
don't we remember the numbers who came through the war and will 
go on beyond the last page – in the epilogue or not – Harry, Ron, 
Hermione, Luna, Neville, Bill, Charlie, Arthur and Molly, even Draco 
and his parents(!) and the rest. I read Tolkien and Lewis and Rowling 
first and foremost for pleasure. Perhaps I'm naïve but I don't want to 
analyse them down to the last full stop; I just want to be an armchair 
hedonist for a couple of hours!

There, I've got that off my chest. I think I'll go and find some 
soothing fanfic



****Katie Replies:
  THANK YOU. I have been sucked into this black hole of negativity myself recently and I have been disliking my OWN posts. I DID love DH and I DO love the series (sans wretched epilogue) and I would love to discuss all the things I love about it. I think sometimes we all get so involved in our own feelings about how things "should" be in Potterverse that we forget we didn't actually write it! : )
  I love JKR's story, and I love these characters. I don't know why many people dislike HRH, or other main characters. To me, they are lively, funny, flawed, and completely loveable. These books have made me laugh, cry, rediscover the magic in my own soul, and these characters have grown to be my dear friends over the years. I don't particularly like ripping them, or their story, to shreds. If I didn't love the books, I wouldn't be here. 
  That said, I believe I will lurk for a while until things settle down...and go off to bed, my copy of DH clutched in my hand, and reread it for the 3rd time since last week...Good Night, Everyone...KATIE

         

       
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