[HPforGrownups] Re: I am about to rant/the hardest part

[Maeg]

No: HPFGUIDX 173822

Geoff Bannister wrote:

> I realise that members can be constitutionally optimistic or can be  
> Eeyore
> types (Winnie-the-Pooh if you don't recognise the reference). I'm  
> usually a
> half-full glass type. There must be something within the books which
> pleases you or encourages you - surely? Something which go "at  
> last" or
> "wow" and punch the air? I have to say that I find the continual  
> complaints
> about certain events in DH annoying. After all, it has been pointed  
> out that
>  JKR wrote the books as she wanted to. If you cannot accept what  
> she has
> written,why are you here like a house elf, agonising over to and  
> banging
> your head on a wall?

If you find "continual complaints" annoying because you don't agree  
with them, am I allowed to find continual praise of DH equally  
annoying if I don't agree it? It sounds like you think I'm not  
allowed to be annoyed. In other words, I'm to tolerate what I don't  
like, but you're free to ban everything you don't like. I don't think  
that's in the best interest of this list.

As for what pleases me in DH, yes, there were some things. I'm not  
really interested in discussing them, though you may be. Again, why  
do I have to conform to you way of thinking? Is it really better if  
we only talk about sweetness and light? Certainly, some think so. I  
do not; in fact, I think it is dangerously banal.

I accept that JKR has written the books the way she wanted to; DH is  
now canon. I really don't like it, and I really don't like the  
twisted, fatalistic message that the entire series now appears to be  
about. I keep posting to this list, hoping someone will be able to  
explain where I went wrong. I really loved this series passionately  
until DH, and I'm in mouring about losing faith with it. It's only  
been a little over a week since the book came out -- can't I have a  
little more time to work out whether or not to abandon it?

> I am merely asking - nay pleading -for a little more consideration for
> opposing views and perhaps a walk on the bright side.

I haven't seen anyone being terribly inconsiderate of people who  
found things to like in the book. If the majority of posts seem to be  
negative, then your only real recourse is for you to post positive  
things. If others argee with you and want to discuss it, they will.  
If they don't, then they won't.

Pleading and badgering probably won't get you anywhere. Certainly,  
you've annoyed the heck out of me and made me only want to keep  
talking about the problems I have with DH.

Maeg, channeling Alice Roosevelt Longworth ("If you don't have  
anything nice to say, come and sit with me.")