Less than 1000 posts in a month - why now?

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 180198

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

> But the Hand of Glory is an important 
> object, introduced into the story early
> (CoS) because it would play a role later

So let's review. Draco sees the Hand of Glory in a shop. A shop is a
place that sells things. Draco expresses great interest in this
object. Some time later we learn that Draco owns this object. You
think JKR's readers will be completely befuddled, they will be unable
to imagine how it could have possibly come into his possession; they
just won't see any way it could have happened. You said JKR had no
respect for her readers but I think that description best fits
somebody else.

> I can think of at least four posters,
> probably more, who were severely 
> disappointed in the books

Books, the word in the plural? Oh yes those were the people who were
disappointed with all the books but who nevertheless read all 7 the
very first day they were available. I am reminded of the old joke: The
food in that restaurant is terrible, and portions are way too small.  

> I also hated Harry's casting the Crucio

I wanted to see Harry disembowel someone and then laugh with a mad
gleam in his eye. Oh well I'll take what I can get, at least Harry
enjoyed the Crucio.

> her attitude of knowing everything about
> the books

I won't say she knows everything about her books but I will say she is
the world's leading authority on them.

> and not allowing us to interpret them

What on earth are you babbling about? 

> really does make me think less of her 
> and I have lost respect for her as both
> author and person because of her "it's 
> my ball and I make the rules" attitude. 

Perhaps I haven't been following this as closely as I should because I
don't even know what public statement JKR said that has gotten you
into such a tizzy, but frankly I don't care. Unless JKR has publicly
endorsed ritual cannibalism then nothing she could say would make me
disrespect her, and even if she said that I'd still like her books
even if I didn't like her.

> I have every right to say that on this list. 

That is true you do, and I have every right to say that by doing so
you demonstrate a smallness of spirit.

> I don't, however, regard them as great literature 

Great literature? Oh yes, like the immortal works of Sully Prudhomme.
In 1901 they could have given the very first Nobel Prize in literature
to Mark Twain but they decided he was too popular and just wrote
children's books; they also could have given it to Tolstoy but they
thought War and Peace just wasn't good enough, so instead they gave it
to Sully Prudhomme. Have you ever hear of Sully Prudhomme? He was
pretty obscure even in 1901 but today after 107 years history has made
its judgment and he is more than obscure, he is virtually unknown even
by college professors. And don't forget of Grazia Deledda, she won the
Nobel in 1926 but what exactly for and what she wrote nobody today
knows. I feel very confident in saying that in another 107 years JKR
will still be better known than Sully Prudhomme, Grazia Deledda or
Harold Bloom; in the year 2115 Harry Potter will be even better known
than that other piece of writing that literary snobs sneer at,
Sherlock Holmes. 

> I would never say that about another poster

Why not? No poster has given you as much joy as JKR has done, if you
must insult someone insult posters not JKR. If you had aimed your
insults at me I would not have been the least bit upset, but calling
JKR those things makes me mad as hell. They are as unjust as they are
stupid.

 Eggplant