[HPforGrownups] Re: Suspension of disbelief - Being dependent

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 182502

Betsy Hp:
Well, so you say. But there's nothing in DH to show it. That's what
I mean about JKR asking her readers to do all of her work for her.
She just kind of handwaves the WW falling completely at Voldemort's
feet and the Order wringing their hands by the sidelines (crying on
Harry to save them) and any reader who wants to have the story makes
sense has to fanwank a background we don't actually get.

Lynda:
Well, there was the MOM being taken over by the DE's and Voldemort. But
maybe that doesn't count. It reminds me just a little of some real world
historical events, though, like WW2 Germany and Italy. Of course that's
purposeful on Rowling's part, but these things happen throughout history
(Nero anyone?) and people do just stand by/support the person in power.

I don't quite get your point about Rowling asking me as a reader to do her
work for her:  Wait!  Yes I do!!  Ficitonal books IMO are supposed to spark
my imagination and let me think, not spoon feed me someone else's concepts
until I'm in a stupor. Television is for that. What I expect a writer to do
for me in his or her books is tell me a story that allows my imagination to
work. Actually, well constructed tv shows and movies do the same thing. I
don't need or want everything laid out for me in my reading. If I did, I
would enjoy nonfiction, which for the most part I don't. It doesn't allow my
imagination to work. There are exceptions to this generalization of course,
but I simply didn't want Rowling (or any other writer of fiction) to give me
a step by step treatise. Rowling did her job. She told me a story. My job
IMO was to allow my imagination to take off and enjoy the story she gave me.

Lynda


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