Less than 1000 posts in a month - why now?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 180237

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...> wrote:
>
>  "Geoff Bannister" <gbannister10@> wrote:
> 
> > I cannot accuse those fellow members who 
> > didn't like the book of being guilty of
> > "babbling" or having "screwy ideas"
> 
> Although I would not agree with it, saying you don't enjoy the book is
> not screwy; However claiming that JKR has become power mad and using
> perfectly innocuous interviews of her as "proof" of it seems pretty
> screwy to me.
> 
> > or of being vitriolic. 
> 
> And saying you've lost all respect for someone and she is an example
> of the Peter Principle in action seems pretty vitriolic to me.
> 
> > If that is their interpretation, then 
> > they have the right to hold those opinions
> 
> You are absolutely correct, but by the same token I have a right to
> say those opinions are ridiculous.

Geoff:
You know, Eggplant, we have crossed swords a number of times 
in the past, to the extent that, on one occasion, I even expressed 
surprise when we /did/ agree!

Obviously, we hold variant views on Harry Potter and his world and the 
works of J.K.Rowling.

However, there are ways of expressing disagreement and ways of 
expressing disagreement; one of them is not, in my view, to 
rubbish other views by callling them screwy or ridiculous.

To me, it implies that the writer or speaker making that assertion is 
either being patronising or unwilling to admit that there might actually 
be a different interpretation of the matter and, as I said in a earlier post, 
no one can claim to be infallibile in responding to a subjective topic.

I agree that you have the right to hold a contrary view to any expressed 
but the apparent harshness of a number of your responses jars against 
the camaraderie which many of us have shared over recent years on this 
group.