An Elfy Response - Criticizing JKR

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 180210

> Eggplant:
> 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.

:Phlytie Elf shifts uncomfortably in his chair, looks in several 
drawers, finds his elf cap and smooshes it onto his head.:

Since the beginning of this list, at least since it has been a Yahoo 
Group, the Moderators have allowed JKR interviews to be considered 
canon, and therefore discussed on this list. Criticism of canon has 
always been allowed, and the Admin team has never stiffled criticism 
of JKR, her writing, her interviews, her characterizations, etc. 
Needless to say, criticism of JKR was not as prevelant in the past, 
but it was there. 

This list is here to discuss JKR's world, which definitely includes 
its Creatrix. JKR is a public figure for the purposes of this list. 
Public figure = fair game for criticism/praise, just like any other 
celebrity, politician, or Paris Hilton. Though if you want to bring 
any of the latter in, you better tie it into canon. ;) (And I want to 
be there when someone ties Paris Hilton into canon. LOL)

List members are private individuals, not public figures. Even if 
some list members are public figures (hey, it's possible!), they are 
private individuals for the purpose of this list. 

What the Admin team has never allowed was criticism of list members 
by other list members. When it happens, most people will not know the 
Elve's response, since it is always in private and no member is 
discussed with another member. But rest assured, we do respond.



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

Phlytie:
Well, Eggy, you do... but you run the risk of bringing Elven Magic 
down upon thyself. 

"You shall not harm Harry Potter", nor any list member!

:Phlytie takes off his elf cap, tries to fix his hair from the 
smooshing, but gives it up as a bad job: