Less than 1000 posts in a month - why now?

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 180182

 "Jim Ferer" <jferer at ...> wrote:

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 There are so many stories left
> to tell, though - we could spend a lot of time discussing those and
> how the wizard world works, but there seems little interest in it. 

Potioncat:
Exactly.NOne of those sorts of threads seem to catch on.

And to be honest, as much as I wanted to know from JKR before the 
books were done---I wish she'd stop now. Or I wish she'd tell us more 
about what was going through her mind as she wrote and what 
influenced her in creating the characters and plots.

> Jim
> I don't post much any more because my posts rarely get replies. I'm
> sure some others feel the same. It's nobody's fault.
 
Potioncat:
What a relief, I though it was just me. Then I began to notice that 
when I was very busy, the list was hopping and as soon I had lots of 
time, the list slowed to a stop. I was getting a bit paranoid!

Jim:
 There was a sense of
> discovery that may be impossible to recapture.


Potioncat:

That's it!

It was a sort of puzzle, a challenge. It was a case of working out 
the hints and discussing them here. Having to support your point 
against fellow list members---who could fire canon as fast as 
anything---not in a an antagonistic way, but in the spirit of the 
challenge. That was so much fun!

Now it too often seems to be a case of "I'm right and you're wrong."

There's more criticism of JKR's work now, it would be good if we 
could approach that in the same way we used to approach the story.