Less than 1000 posts in a month - why now?

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 180176

 "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> Surely, it wasn't just the inability to
> speculate that had taken away our enjoyment 

Speculation was the real fun, now all people do is find a trivial (or
nonexistent) inconsistency and claim it has ruined the entire series
for them. Or they say there are loose ends because JKR didn't tell us
what every minor character did for the next 50 years.

> Ron knowing about the Hand of Glory that
> Draco supposedly owned 

There was no scene in the series where Harry bought a pair of shoes,
and yet Harry wore shoes, and this inconsistency has ruined the entire
series for me.

> I don't think that the HBP books are great
> books. Certainly, JKR is not a great author.

Then one cannot help but wonder why you spent so much time with them,
and wrote about them so much. My theory is that the reason so many are
angry with JKR now is that she stopped writing. Well, I always said
her biggest flaw as a writer is that every one of her books is too
short, and 7 books is indeed too few. 

> I think, frankly, that the Peter Principle
> has overcome her, [
] I wish I could respect
> her, but I can't 

It's odd, if you had said that about another member of this group the
moderators would be all upset; I know that from personal experience
because I have been slapped down for saying far less insulting things
about other posters. And yet you can say that about the very person
who created the universe that has given all of us such pleasure for so
many years and apparently that's just fine. If they won't say it I
will, I think that is small of you.

I hope you have the good taste to be a little ashamed of yourself.

 Eggplant