Less than 1000 posts in a month - why now?

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 180214

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

> if you'd paid attention to the interviews

I've read every one, more than once.

> you'd know where I got the idea that she
> doesn't respect her readers. 

Nope, I still don't see where you got that screwy idea.

> She appears to think that her interpretation
> is not only the right one but the only one 

I would maintain she would appear that way only to someone who was for
some reason determined to see her in a bad light. 

> Do you think, for example, that she
> sees Harry as you do 

Of course not, nor does she demand I do so. If she really felt the way
you claim she does she would try to stop fan fiction and not encourage it.

> the letter that had no way of
> appearing at 12 GP

So you think there is just no way the property a man who had died
could end up at his parents house, you think the very idea is
inconceivable. I don't.

> the skulls in the Slytherin common room 

Unlike her hero Jane Austen, JKR doesn't spend a lot of pages
describing furniture and interior decorations, but I don't recall JKR
saying in book 2 that there were no skulls in the room.  

> Ron's and Harry's having no way of knowing
> that Draco had obtained the Hand of Glory.
> (I'm not complaining that he acquired it off-page.
> I'm complaining about theiry *knowing* that
> he had one when that's impossible. 

Impossible?! It's imposable that Draco showed off this rather
interesting object before? As for being off page, literature is just
like real life except all the boring parts are moved off page. If JKR
thought her readers were so stupid that everything had to be spelled
out for them in every excruciating detail her books would be as large
as the Manhattan yellow pages and about as interesting.

And the idea that neither JKR nor her editors knew that we don't
actually see Draco buying the hand is ridiculous, absolutely
positively 100% ridiculous. 

 Eggplant