Why down on all the characters?

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 179327

> Jeanette: "It just might be me but since the release of DH there 
seems
> to be a very negative feel to a lot of the posts. People are 
trashing
> JKR as a writer, people are trashing the various once-loved
> characters... <snip>
> 
> 
> Stephanie:
> 
> I'm with you.  I'm all for debate, but I wonder why people who hate
> DH, call the story evil, whatever, are stil bothering to post on 
this
> list.  I'm not saying that those opinions aren't valid - everyone 
has
> a right to their opinions.  I just wonder why they're wasting their
> time in such a manner.

Magpie:
Err...because they feel like it? I mean, why is that more wasting of 
time than posting about how you think the books are awesome? None of 
us are curing cancer here. We like talking about the books. 
Personally, I've never considered it important that I like a book to 
want to talk about it. My question is whether I feel like talking 
about the book or not--sometimes I enjoy talking about things I 
liked, sometimes I enjoy talking about things I didn't like. That can 
be just as satisfying to me. A number of people who've felt 
negatively about the book have even said why they remain on the list 
trying to puzzle out their feelings for it. What I'm least interested 
in is just listing of things or emotional reactions--if somebody 
listed their favorite moments of DH, or the funniest, even if I 
agreed with them I probably wouldn't care. I really do think, now 
that the series is over, that it's got a lot of disturbing stuff in 
it, and that's basically what I'm interested in talking about it. 
Especially DH, which worked for me as little as it did.

-m